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Theater Commentary: A Modest Proposal — Boston Theaters, Junk Your Seasons!

Today’s spirit of protest calls for risk and innovation, dissent and defiance. Our timid stages fall disgracefully short of reflecting that iconoclasm.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, George Floyd

Theater Commentary: Resist Trump? Boston’s Stages Opt Out

Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: boston-globe, Boston-theater, Don Aucoin, Donald Trump, political-theater

Arts Fuse Appreciation / Commentary: DruidMurphy, There and Here

The Druid, one of Ireland’s most celebrated stage companies, undertook the project to celebrate Tom Murphy’s work and to make the case for him as one of the world’s leading living playwrights.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Druid Theatre Company, DruidMurphy, Irish Drama, Tom Murphy

Theater Review: “Grimm” but Entertaining

Charm’d magic casements, opening on the Foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. — To a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819 GRIMM: The Brothers’ Tales Remixed & Re-imagined . . . Written by Gregory Maguire, Kristen Greenidge, Melinda Lopez, Marcus Gardley, Lydia R. Diamond, John Kuntz, and John ADEkoje. Directed by Summer L. Williams and […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Brothers Grimm, Company One, Gregory Maguire, John ADEkoje, John Kuntz, Kirsten Greenidge, Lydia Diamond, Marcus Gardley, Melinda-Lopez, Shawn LaCount, Summer l. Williams

Theater Review: A Poetic ‘Apple’

Imagine this day. See it in your mind. The sun on your face. The spring in your mouth. Your heart deep inside. No future. No past. No time. Just this day. This moment. — Apple by Vern Thiessen Apple by Vern Thiessen. Directed by Greg Maraio. Presented by Phoenix Theatre Artists and Company One, at […]

By: Alyssa Hall Filed Under: Featured, Theater, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: Alyssa Machado, Apple, Boston-theater, Canada, Company One, Greg Maraio, Phoenix Theatre Artists, Vern Thiessen

Theater Commentary: Boston’s “Comedy of Errors”

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Directed by Steve Maler. Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at the Boston Common Parkman Bandstand, through August 16. Reviewed by Bill Marx Shakespeare can be punished by his own success. In “The Comedy of Errors” he juggles two sets of identical twins on stage with the dizzying aplomb […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston Common, Boston-theater, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, CPAC, downtown theater, Ed Siegel, Josiah-Spaulding, Persona Non Grata, Steve Maler, The Comedy of Errors, William-Shakespeare

Theater Commentary: Stages Search for a New Balance

By Bill Marx Kate Warner, the New Rep’s new Artistic Director, wants to strike a new balance. WGBH’s Jared Bowen is more of a publicist/fan than a journalist, but his recent “Greater Boston” interview with Kate Warner, the new Artistic Director of the New Repertory Theatre, gives the honcho a chance to talk about some […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Jared Bowen, Kate Warner, New Rep, Persona Non Grata, younger audiences

Theater Commentary: Last of the Red Hot Anachronisms

By Bill Marx If the age turns away from the theater, in which it is no longer interested, that is because the theater has ceased to represent it. It no longer hopes to be provided by the theater with myths on which it can sustain itself. –- Antonin Artaud

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Antonin Artaud, Boston-theater, Louise-kennedy, Neil Simon, Persona Non Grata, The Boston Globe

Theater Review: A Mild FeverFest 08

By Bill Marx Now in its third year under the watchful eye of the admirable Whistler in the Dark Theatre, FeverFest presents a selection of Boston’s fringe groups in an evening of short performances, a sort of theatrical tasting event billed as a round up of “explosive work by vital young companies.” Tonight will be […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Featured, FeverFest, fringe, imaginary-beasts, Mill-6-collaborative, Orfeo, Persona Non Grata, The-New-Exhibition-Room, Theater, whistler-in-the-dark

Theater Views: Breaking News on Breaking Ground

By Bill Marx The Huntington Theatre Company’s Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings turns five this year. The latest lineup runs through Sunday at the shindig’s venue, the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Scripts by Melinda Lopez, Ken Urban, Mat Smart and Nathan Louis Jackson, as well as a […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Breaking-Ground, Featured, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Ilana-Brownstein, Theater

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