‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
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A Georgia Crew Member to Hollywood: Don’t Boycott, #StayAndFight (Guest Blog)
“We are on the same side. We also want to defeat the ‘heartbeat bill,'” veteran story artist Mark Simon writes
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‘Plus One’ Co-Directors on the 7 Phone Calls You Need to Get a Movie Made (Guest Blog)
Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer spent a lot of time on the phone to get their first feature made
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‘The Waverly Gallery’ Playwright Kenneth Lonergan Really Wants a Tony Award – for Elaine May (Guest Blog)
“It’s not my fault that the rage today is for 90-minute intermission-less shows,” Lonergan says of his singular approach to stage and filmed projects
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author of “Dinner With Friends” delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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‘Dying City’ Theater Review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Juggles Twin Brothers
Christopher Shinn directs an uneven production of his own play set in a traumatized New York City during the Iraq War
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
The winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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Inside Convicted Felon Christopher Bathum’s Celebrity Rehab Empire (Exclusive Book Excerpt)
In an excerpt from his new nonfiction work, “Bad Therapist,” journalist Evan Wright details the rise of an L.A. drug-rehab mogul with no college degree or license in drug counseling
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‘BLKS’ Theater Review: When Women Aren’t Afraid to Show Their Muscle
Aziza Barnes’s comedy benefits from Robert O’Hara’s broad-strokes direction and two inspired actors
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Lori Loughlin’s Exit From Hallmark’s ‘When Comes the Heart’ Was Handled Just Right (Guest Blog)
“I wondered if they were going to kidnap, kill or make Abigail disappear. Hallmark did not disappoint,” Aviva Kempner writes
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A Pokemon Superfan Reviews ‘Detective Pikachu': Problems Come Out to Play in Disappointing Film (Guest Blog)
Unfortunately, the mechanics that often make a video game fun and meaningful don’t always translate to a good story
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‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
Christopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s novel into a nightmare of a play that exhausts, but in a fascinating way
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Tony Awards 2019: We Predict the Nominees, From ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to ‘Tootsie’
Expect a lot of love for Daniel Fish’s radical new revival of “Oklahoma!”
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: Tim Burton’s Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
Alex Brightman plays Michael Keaton’s character from the 1988 big-screen comedy
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‘Ink’ Broadway Review: Rupert Murdoch Gets Hit With a Puff Piece
James Graham’s play treats the mogul’s revamp of tabloid journalism like a Broadway musical, and not a very serious one
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Edward James Olmos Revisits ‘Stand and Deliver’ 3 Decades Later: ‘There Is Such an Imbalance’ in Society (Guest Blog)
“I am trying to create pieces of work that will actually help me understand who I am,” actor says
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‘Tootsie’ Broadway Review: Santino Fontana Can’t Fill Dustin Hoffman’s Heels in New Musical
In composer David Yazbek’s musical version of the 1982 Oscar winner, cross-dressing heroine Dorothy Michaels doesn’t learn a thing
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‘All My Sons’ Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the Awful Truth
The two actors deliver powerful performances in an otherwise unfocused revival of Arthur Miller’s play
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‘The Pain of My Belligerence’ Theater Review: Young Woman on the Verge of Getting Fired
Maybe the New Yorker is part of Halley Feiffer’s world. It’s definitely not something her character reads, much less writes for
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‘Gary’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Cleans Up a Big, Bloody and Inspired Mess
The actor scores in Taylor Mac’s demented new comedy, which manages to improve mightily on Shakespeare’s worst play
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How Hollywood Is Updating the Afterlife for a Wired, More Secular Generation (Guest Blog)
“Death is definitely having a moment,” a therapist says of the current rash of death- and afterlife-themed entertainment
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Play Politics as That Couple
Lucas Hnath’s tragicomedy examines the most unfair marriage on Earth. Or anywhere else, for that matter
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How Data and Analytics Can Help Musicians Make More Money – Even Without Labels
How emerging artists can do just about everything on their own
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‘Burn This’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
The actors perform a very lively parody of Lanford Wilson’s play about a woman who chooses the wrong Neanderthal
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‘Socrates’ Theater Review: Michael Stuhlbarg Teaches Us Everything
The actor rakes democracy over the coals of time in Tim Blake Nelson’s great new play
