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Theater Commentary: Theater in a Time of Emergency? — The Same Old Same Old

Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: criticism, Pandemic!, theater-criticism

Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: and People of Color, BIPOC, black, Indigenous, theater-criticism, white american theater

Theater Commentary: Can Audiences Rescue Theater Criticism?

Will working with audiences encourage stage companies and theater artists to go beyond the status quo? Or just cement them into their sweet spots?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: future of arts criticism, Lyn Gardner, The Stage, theater audiences, theater-criticism

Critical Condition: Why Be Negative? Don’t Ask “The New York Times”

If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-criticism, Jesse Green, Negative Criticism, The New York Times, theater-criticism

Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Artery, arts-criticism, Don Aucoin, free lance theater criticism, The Boston Globe, theater-criticism, theater-reviews, wbur, WGBH

Theater Interview: Writing about the American Stage

As a theatrical event, The American Stage anthology would have to be classified as a rousing vaudeville show: there are literary routines for all brows—high, middle, and low. The American Stage: Writings on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner, edited by Laurence Senelick, Library of America, 867 pages, $40. By Bill Marx “There is […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: george-jean-nathan, Laurence Senelick, The American Stage, The LIbrary of America, Theater, theater-criticism

Theater Commentary: George Jean Nathan — The Divine Devil of American Theater Criticism

“The best of the regular theater critics … the brightest America ever had.” – Eric Bentley “Intelligent play-goer number one.” – George Bernard Shaw “The truth is that Mr. Nathan is both a theatrical storehouse, full of the most voluminous and astonishing information, and a whole theatre in himself. He maintains an impetus and lustre […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: american-theater, Eric-Bentley, Featured, george-jean-nathan, Persona Non Grata, Theater, theater-criticism

Response: Critical Justification

A certain number of people (not huge) want to read critics who take the arts seriously, who do more than tell readers what is worth spending their money on.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: American-Repertory-Theatre, Pauline-Kael, Persona Non Grata, Theater, theater-critic, theater-criticism, theater-reviews, Thomas-Garvey

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