387 stories by "Bill Marx"
Critic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep's marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.
Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People is an amusing takedown of our "post-racial" world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.
We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.
Tadeusz Różewicz's best poems are blunt hammer strokes that pound at the impossibility of crafting poetry true to the sins of history.
Is it the Bard or a magic show? The prestidigitation pretty well wins out given the wanness of the dramatic proceedings.
Dramatically speaking, Sontag: Reborn fails to treat a flawed iconoclast with the necessary creative playfulness. Hush, Saint Susan Aborning!
It is encouraging to see new plays that tackle substantial social problems.
"Americans have been most drawn to the great tragedies"in our classroom and on our stages. "
"Nothing Like the Sun" remains, for my money, among the best works of fiction inspired by Shakespeare's life.
Dramatist Melinda Lopez's "Becoming Cuba" holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.
"Buster Keaton's imagination and ideas are more surrealistic than Chaplin's, and his stunts are astonishing in terms of their demanding technique, even today".
"I love Fats Waller. Fats Waller will always be here because he is simply that magnetic a person(a)."
This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
"Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due."
Jiri Fiedler's was a life of quiet heroism dedicated to the indispensable task of keeping the past alive.
In "The Flick," Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call "relatable," exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from conne…
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
"Witness Uganda" is a quintessential American musical -- a work of cultural tourism that condemns cultural tourism.
The protagonist may necessarily be passive in the face of his or her diminishing mental condition, but art must rage against the dying of the light.
The "Cambridge Jonson" volumes are available online, and the site is a bibliographical joy to behold, Ben Jonson's plays, poems, masques, and prose arranged in chronological order and in a s…
Those willing to accept that powerful political theater can be as much about depicting pain as providing hope will find much to admire in this visually striking, dramatically compelling piec…
"Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor's new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today's Crown Jewe…
"Venus in Fur" could be best described as cheeky rather than kinky, more of a talky intellectual exercise than a zesty exploration of the allure of sexual domination and submission.
Through meticulous research, interviews, and reminiscence, this compelling book illuminates a nook in the heart of darkness.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance and theater that's coming up this week.
