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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Past and Present Collide in Poetry from the Future: Lorette C. Luzajic’s Pretty Time Machine

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“I may lie a lot. But never in my lyrics.” – Courtney Love Imagine receiving a postcard from a friend who claimed to be writing to y...
Monday, March 23, 2020

The Group: Novel into Film

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Shirley Knight and Hal Holbrook in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). When Sidney Lumet made a movie of Mary McCarthy’s The G...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Danse Macabre: Three Works by the National Ballet of Canada

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Greta Hodgkinson in Marguerite and Armand . (Photo: Karolina Kuras)   Given that dance seasons usually are organized at least a year...
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Monday, March 16, 2020

Parodies: The Confession of Lily Dare and Little Shop of Horrors

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Nancy Anderson and Charles Busch in The Confession of Lily Dare . (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The last two shows I caught in New York befor...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Betraying Jane: Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.

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Anya Taylor-Joy in Emma. Many people love Jane Austen’s novels for the romance of them, and the romance is very good: unsentimenta...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Iconosphere: The Ekphrastic Works of Walter Benjamin

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The False Mirror, by Rene Magritte, 1929. “Images, our great and primitive passion . . .”   – Walter Benjamin, ca. 1930 The word ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Too Late for Satire

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Joél Pérez, Ana Nogueira, Jennifer Damiano & Michael Zegen in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice . (Photo: Monique Carboni) Pau...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Coal Country: Docudrama with a Pulse

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Steve Earle (right) in Coal Country at The Public Theater in New York City. (Photo: Joan Marcus) Steve Earle’s haunting, melodic folk...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Honey Boy: Coming to Terms

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Shia LaBeouf in Honey Boy . Shia LaBeouf does first-rate work in Honey Boy – not only as the leading actor but even more impressi...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Long Distance Runner: New Works by Yehouda Chaki

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Yehouda Chaki, 1503 , oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches. “I wonder if I'm the only one in the running business with this system of ...
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Friday, February 14, 2020

Looking Back, Stepping Forward: A Choreographer’s Greatest Hits

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Devon Snell in Echo Dark (2020). (Photo: Ömer Yükseker) Farewells are rarely easy. But Christopher House, outgoing artistic dire...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

The Lucky One: Miss Americana (aka Taylor Swift: Miss Americana)

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Taylor Swift in Miss Americana , now streaming on Netflix. People often say that you need to be objective to be a good critic, but ...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Timon of Athens: Lonely at the Bottom

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Kathryn Hunter in Timon of Athen s. (Photo: Henry Grossman) In Shakespeare’s late, one-of-a-kind tragedy Timon of Athens (now ...
Friday, February 7, 2020

Con Artists: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

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Choi Woo Shik, Song Kang Ho, Chang Hyae Jin and Park So Dam in Parasite . Director Bong Joon-ho ’s magnum opus Parasite is his firs...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Sing Street and Porgy and Bess: Birthing a New Stage Musical and Burying a Classic

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Sam Poon, Anthony Genovesi, Jakeim Hart and Gian Perez in Sing Street . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) I caught the sold-out final performan...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Close Encounters of the Enlightened Kind: Awakening My Heart

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Tina Turner shared her own transformative heart experiences with Andrea Miller. (Photo: Nathan Beck). I wish I had known about Awaken...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Aloft: Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts

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Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in The Aeronauts .  . . . [A]ll balloon flights are naturally three-act dramas. The First Act ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

The Forgettable and the Forgotten: We All Fall Down and Ivan Passer

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Eleanor Reissa and Stephen Schnetzer in We All Fall Down . (Photo: Nile Hawver) The Huntington Theatre Company ’s commitment to produ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

The Moral Arc of the Universe Bends Toward Compassion: So Long, My Son

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Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun in So Long, My Son ( Dijiutianchang / 地久天长, 2019) Chinese New Year is almost upon us, a time for family a...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Big and Little Spaces: Judgment Day, Is This a Room, The Thin Place

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Judgment Day , at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. (Photo: Stephanie Berger) The British director Richard Jones has directed ...