Bill Marx is a theater critic based in Boston, Massachusetts. Marx served as theater and arts critic for WBUR from 1982 to 2006 and as the host of a podcast dedicated to books in translation for WGBH and Public Radio International's The World from 2007 to 2011. Since 1982, Marx has also written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online media outlets including The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, Washington Post Book World, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Parnassus, Ploughshares, TheaterWeek, The Village Voice, Tab Communications, and The Boston Ledger. Marx won United Press International and Associated Press awards for his radio reviews of Boston theater. He has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award three times. Under's Marx's leadership, WBUR Online Arts also won an Online Journalism Award for Specialty Journalism. Since 2007, Marx has been a full-time lecturer at Boston University, teaching courses on the history of American arts criticism and the contemporary novel for the Boston University College of Fine Arts and Boston University College of Arts and Sciences. [More at Wikipedia]

January 8th, 1953 in (Age 71)