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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Forbidden: The Strange History of Censorship

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Photo by Valentin Kopalov. “All the desires we try to suffocate will drown in our soul and poison it. The only way to get rid of...
Monday, June 17, 2019

The Starry Messenger: Adrift in the Universe

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Matthew Broderick in The Starry Messenger . (Photo: Mark Brenner) I seem to be temperamentally drawn to Kenneth Lonergan ’s plays an...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

L'art pour l'humanité: A Bread Factory, Parts I and II (2018)

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George Young, Trevor St. John, and Janet Hsieh in A Bread Factory, Part One (2018) The question of the power of art is an ancient one...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Arthur Miller in New York and London: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

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Benjamin Walker, Tracy Letts, Annette Bening, and Hampton Fluker in All My Sons . (Photo: Joan Marcus) All My Sons was the first...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Small Island: The National Theatre Works the Room

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Gershwyn Eustache Jr. and Leah Harvey in Small Island at London's National Theatre. (Photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg) This review cont...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Last Night in Marienbad: Dancing the Elusive

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Christopher House and Jordan Tannahill in Marienbad . (Photo: Ömer Yükseker) To access Marienbad , a mesmerizingly teasing dance work...
Monday, May 27, 2019

The Flamingo Kid: Bare Bones

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Alex Wyse, Jimmy Brewer, and Ben Fankhauser in The Flamingo Kid. (Photo: T. Charles Rickson) In The Flamingo Kid , the new musical pr...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Forest of Memory: The Provocative Art of Dana Claxton

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Cultural Belongings by Dana Claxton, LED Firebox, 2016. I'm influenced by my own experience as a Lakota woman, as a Canadian, a ...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Sentimental Journeys: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Burn This, Doris Day

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Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune . (Photo: Deen van Meer) I’ve been skipping production...
Friday, May 17, 2019

The Museum Must Be Decolonized: The First Monday in May (2016)

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A shot from The First Monday in May (2016). The first Monday in May is when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art holds its annua...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Dust Bowl: Oklahoma!

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 Rebecca Naomi Jones and Damon Daunno in Oklahoma! . (Photo: Teddy Wolff) Daniel Fish’s new, stripped-down production of Rodgers and H...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Tootsie: In Name Only

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 Julie Halston, James Moye, Santino Fontana, Lilli Cooper, John Behlmann in Tootsie . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The new musical of  Toot...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Permanent Witness for the Defense: The Legend of K.

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The ultimate anti-author, ca. 1919. A review of the new book by Benjamin Balint, Kafka’s Last Trial , from Norton, Penguin/Rando...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

From the Musical Theatre Canon: The Music Man, Kiss Me, Kate and Lady in the Dark

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Ellie Fishman and Edward Watts in The Music Man . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) Meredith Willson’s The Music Man became a classic as soon...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Art Therapy: Welcome to Marwen

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Steve Carell and Merritt Wever in Welcome to Marwen . The almost universal disdain with which Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Dialectics False and True: Captive State and A. I. Rising

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John Goodman and Ashton Sanders in Captive State ( 2019). Look, some films are just garbage; that’s just a fact. But sometimes when y...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Sound and Fury: King Lear

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Jayne Houdyshell and Glenda Jackson in King Lear. (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe) Of the thirteen or fourteen professional productions of ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

The Interpretation of Dreams: On the Beach at Night Alone

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Kim Min-hee in On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). There seems to a a trend of metafiction in South Korean arthouse. Before ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Real Tesla: How Visionary Eccentrics Transformed Our World and Why We Need Them to Do It Again, Please

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Nikola Tesla’s lab in Colorado Springs, calmly making environmental electricity in 1901. Review of the new book by Richard Munson, ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Us: Cheap Stuff

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Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex, and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Jordan Peele's Us . The first few minutes of Us , written and directe...