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Clifford Odets

Fuse Theater Review: “Awake and Sing!”? Too Much Bickering

In this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets, Melia Bensussen, Will LeBow

Theater Reviews: The State of the Union

Artists should “no longer huddle in the confines of a painted box set” but instead join together to “find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time” and dramatize “the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world.” – Hallie Flanagan, Federal Theatre Project Stick […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: American, American Repertory Theater, Arena-Stage, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Clifford Odets, Daniel Fish, Diane Paulus, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Kenny Leon, Lydia Diamond, New York, Paradise Lost, Public Theater, stage, Stick Fly, Suzan-Lori-Parks, The Book of Grace, Theater

Theater Commentary: Isn’t It a Question of Relevance?

The reviews of the Huntington Theatre Company (HTC) production were generally ecstatic. And what could be timelier than an oft-produced American drama that focuses on the tragic costs of war profiteering?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Question of Mercy, All My Sons, American-Repertory-Theatre, Arthur Miller, BCAP, Boston, Bread and Puppet Theater, Clifford Odets, David-Rabe, Groundswell, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jim Petosa, Lyric stage company of boston, Paradise Lost, Persona Non Grata, Relevance, Tear Open the Door of Heaven, Theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2010

A recent piece in the New York Times provides further proof of the increasingly pernicious stranglehold marketing exerts on the production of new voices in the theater. By Bill Marx Let’s face it—the fastest growing segment of non-profit hiring in the arts over the past decade or so, marketing, is now pretty much in the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Boston, Brandeis Theater Company, Central Square Theater, Clifford Odets, Daniel Fish, Emerson Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Lydia Diamond, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Theater, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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