political-theater

Theater Review: “Made in China 2.0” — The Art of Taking Risks

February 3, 2023
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Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.

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

April 5, 2017
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Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.

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Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

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From the Editor’s Desk: Lessons from Bertolt Brecht — and Highlights of the Week

September 4, 2014
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Today’s increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.

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Theater Commentary: Menace in Minsk

September 3, 2007
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Given the timidity of so many American theater companies, who seem to reserve their courage for implementing new marketing schemes, reminders of what creative risk is all about serve a useful purpose. Some theater artists around the world face jail when they perform on stage. On August 22, special forces of the Belorussian police raided…

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