Why Hannah Gadsby and Hedy Lamarr Are Both Having a Bombshell Moment Right Now (Guest Blog)
If the two women time-traveled to meet, they might both say, “Yeah, me too!”
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‘The House That Will Not Stand’ Theater Review: A Mesmerizing Look at Women in 1813 New Orleans
Free women of color cope with the Louisiana Purchase in Marcus Gardley’s often funny new play
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‘Head Over Heels’ Broadway Review: The Go-Go’s Travel Back to the 17th Century
In the time-honored tradition of “Mamma Mia!,” the hit songs have nothing to do with the tale being told
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‘This Ain’t No Disco’ Theater Review: Is Studio 54 Ready for Another 15 Minutes of Fame?
Steve Rubell and someone who looks and acts a lot like Andy Warhol face off in an evil-twin contest, from the makers of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
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‘Straight White Men’ Broadway Review: Typecasting Armie Hammer and Josh Charles
In their Broadway debuts, the actors play male types we’ve seen them embody in far better movies and TV shows
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‘The Damned’ Theater Review: Ivo van Hove Wrestles Luchino Visconti and Loses
A classic film about Nazis has been turned into a Lillian Hellman melodrama, one that is best titled “The Big Foxes”
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‘Fire in Dreamland’ Theater Review: Should Jeff Sessions Be Targeting Dutch Immigrants?
Under its forced whimsy, Rinne Groff’s new play offers odd messages about immigrants and abortion
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Fire and Fuhrer: Why Hollywood Is So Focused on Adolf Hitler These Days (Guest Blog)
“Even if it [Nazism] is not lived or felt history anymore, Hitler and it has become an all-purpose insult and stand-in for evil,” author Thomas Doherty notes
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‘Trainspotting’ Theater Review: The Needles Are Real, the Other Stuff Is Not
Harry Gibson’s adaptation makes for extraordinary immersive theater under Adam Spreadbury-Maher’s direction
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‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Theater Review: Tatiana Maslany Stands Out in Tracy Letts’ Jumbled New Drama
The playwright uses the fractured chronology of David Hare’s “Plenty” to ill effect
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Why Mr. Rogers Is the Perfect Movie Superhero for Our Times (Guest Blog)
The hit documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” proves that big-screen heroes can wear cardigans instead of capes
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We Asked the ‘Ant-Man’ Physicist Who Named the Quantum Realm to Explain What It Is
Caltech mathematical physicist Spyridon “Spiros” Michalakis named the Quantum Realm for Marvel. He wrote this to help us understand it
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How Hollywood Can Help Overcome Negative Perceptions of Muslims (Guest Column)
“Inclusion and authentic representation of marginalized communities will create a power shift in public discourse,” writes the director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Hollywood Bureau
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‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ Theater Review: Even Barbra Streisand Couldn’t Make This Musical Work
The latest revival showcases Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s great score but doesn’t solve the problems of Lerner’s flawed book
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‘Girls & Boys’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan Says the Kids Aren’t All Right
Dennis Kelly’s play makes it clear who deserves all the blame, the women or the men
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‘Carmen Jones’ Theater Review: Anika Noni Rose Goes from Dreamgirl to Total Femme Fatale
Georges Bizet purists may squawk, but Oscar Hammerstein II’s novel reworking of the opera warhorse is more than ready for a big Broadway revival
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‘Cyprus Avenue’ Theater Review: Stephen Rea Goes for Overkill
David Ireland’s play explores the psyche of a Belfast bigot
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‘Log Cabin’ Theater Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Fathers a Baby Against All Odds
Jordan Harrison’s comedy looks at the new war of words in the LGBT dictionary
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‘Skintight’ Theater Review: Idina Menzel Masterfully Proves Ageism Is a Guy Thing
Joshua Harmon writes another provocative comedy about pampered, affluent white people. They’re all just one skin peel away from happiness
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Yes, Hollywood Is Still Buying Spec Scripts – Here’s What You Need to Know to Sell Yours (Guest Blog)
The Rep Sheet: “There are definitely still people who are looking for original material — always with an eye towards production,” UTA agent Alex Rincon says
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AFI Docs Delivers Stories You Cannot Make Up (Guest Blog)
A report from the festival of documentaries in and around Washington, D.C.
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‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ Theater Review: The Earth Grandmother Steals the Show
Donja R. Love’s new play stars the phenomenal Stephanie Berry, who dwarfs the same-sex love affair at its core
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‘Pass Over’ Theater Review: When the White Man Is an Alien From Another Planet
Antoinette Nwandu’s play is as scarily funny as it is clear in exploring many forms of violent persecution
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One Lesson From Celebrity Suicides: Stop Deadpooling Troubled Stars (Guest Blog)
“We seem to enjoy poking the bear when the bear is incapacitated publicly by mental anguish or erratic behavior,” writes Rabbi David Baron of Temple of the Arts of Beverly Hills
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Tony Awards Predictions 2018: Prizes Cometh for Denzel Washington, ‘Harry Potter’ and Tina Fey
Famous writer of “Mean Girls” may even bump Best Book of a Musical category to rare primetime berth
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The Night Bobby Kennedy Was Shot – An Eyewitness Account 50 Years Later (Guest Blog)
Journalist/author Ivor Davis was in the Ambassador Hotel in 1968 to witness the horrendous assassination of the man who would be president
