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Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster

Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bill Heck, Bill Rauch, Dagmara Dominczyk, Naomi-Wallace, Night is a Room, Signature Theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2010

Holiday season is kicking in, which means it becomes harder to find theater that doesn’t set out to warm your heart and melt your mind. Though a Santaland Diary or two remains, the vogue for cynical Xmas shows has run its course. Still, all is not lost when you can still find such extraordinary family […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, Basil Twist, Beasley's Christmas Party, Bob Glaudini, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Celebrity-Series, Charlestown Working Theater, Chick with a Trick, Codes of Conduct, Community Music Center of Boston, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Gina Gionfriddo, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Last Gas, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Najla Said, Naomi-Wallace, New England, New Repertory Theatre, Pamela Bob Sings the Mandel & Lydon Songbook, Petrushka, Portland Stage Company, The Fever Chart, Theater, Two Wives in India, U.S. Drag, Underground Railway Theater, Vengeance is the Lord's

Theater Views: Barker’s Back and Other Good News

By Bill Marx “I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.” — Howard Barker Given the New York Times’s unenthusiastic review of an off-Broadway staging of Howard Barker’s A Hard Heart back in December – “Kathleen Chalfant can perform such miracles onstage that she has […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Featured, Howard-barker, I-saw-Myself, In-the-heart-of-America, MIT-dramashop, Naomi-Wallace, Persona Non Grata, the-fever-chart:-three-visions-of-the-Middle-East, the-wrestling-school, Theater, whistler-in-the-dark

Theater Commentary: Dead American Theater Walking

by Bill Marx In a New York Times article I wrote about earlier this week, dramatist Marsha Norman suggests ways to soften nasty stage reviews, which she claims chase audiences away from the glories of theater and into the decadent arms of television. But how would she discipline a successful homegrown dramatist, Neil LaBute, when […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: American-drama, american-theater, american-theatre, Don-DeLillo, Featured, george-Hunka, Howard-zinn, Love-lies-bleeding, Marsha-Norman, Michael-aman, Naomi-Wallace, Neil-Labute, Persona Non Grata, superfulities-redux, The-Lieutenant-of-Inishmore, Theater

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