‘Mlima’s Tale’ Theater Review: Lynn Nottage’s Story of the Real Elephant Man
Nottage is much better at anthropomorphizing her lead elephant than any of the human characters
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‘Carousel’ Broadway Review: A Classic Show Gets the Classic Production It Deserves
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical receives the star treatment under Jack O’Brien’s superb direction
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‘Children of a Lesser God’ Theater Review: Joshua Jackson Must Speak for Two in Broadway Debut
Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play returns to find itself rocked by the #MeToo movement
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‘This Flat Earth’ Theater Review: Gun Violence in Schools Takes Center Stage
After the recent success of her play “Amy and the Orphans,” Lindsey Ferrentino follows up with a muddled drama set in the aftermath of “another” school shooting
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‘Mean Girls’ Broadway Review: Tina Fey’s Nasty Teens Now Sing, Dance and Recycle
Fey’s one-liners are still funny after all these years. But most of the originality comes from Casey Nicholaw’s choreography and direction of a very talented young cast
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Roseanne’s Hitler Photo Shoot: Does Hate Speech Have a Shelf Life? (Guest Blog)
Are we going to give her a pass because it was nine years ago?
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Tom Shales: How Steven Bochco Cut the Bull and Reinvented the Cop Show
Longtime television critic explains how honesty was crucial to everything Bochco did
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‘Three Tall Women’ Broadway Review: Glenda Jackson Charges Into the Night
Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill also tower in the first Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s masterpiece
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Broadway’s Revival Fever: Do Old Shows Still Play in #MeToo Era? (Guest Blog)
“Children of a Lesser God” cut a jokey reference to “rape,” producer Hal Luftig says
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‘Yerma’ Theater Review: Federico Garcia Lorca Wouldn’t Recognize This Adaptation – or Claim It
The Young Vic’s freewheeling adaptation starring Billie Piper updates the story to contemporary London. Yerma is now called Her, which is the least of Her problems
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Director Fights Back at Hollywood Ageism: ‘Why Is Time on Earth a Liability?’ (Guest Blog)
“Who decided number of Instagram followers is more valuable than real-world knowledge?” writes “All I Wish” writer-director Susan Walter
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‘Lobby Hero’ Broadway Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Compare Their Guns
Sometimes movie stars make the segue to Broadway in high style
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‘Frozen’ Broadway Review: Disney’s Animated Hit Becomes Major Snow Job
Patti Murin and Jelani Alladin occasionally unthaw a rather frigid show
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How Ava DuVernay Blazes a Path Through Hollywood (Guest Blog)
We Do It Together Blog: “DuVernay has has been at the forefront of pushing culture forward,” writes Kenny Copeland Jr.
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How My Time in Prison Saved My Life – and Led to a Career in Hollywood (Guest Blog)
“There is so much art and creative writing that comes out of prisons,” writes “The Forgiven” screenwriter Michael Ashton
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‘Escape to Margaritaville’ Broadway Review: Jimmy Buffett Kicks Back a Few Too Many
A new musical takes its cue from Buffett’s odes to gluttony “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?”
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How a Blue-Collar Woman Taught Me to Stand Up to Hollywood Bullies and Harassers (Guest Blog)
“Maybe today an actor would think twice before grabbing his director’s breasts,” filmmaker Courtney Balaker writes
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‘Admissions’ Theater Review: Joshua Harmon’s Comedy Dissects One Family’s Yale-or-Bust Insanity
In Harmon’s insightful new comedy, it’s the parents who may never recover from their child’s rejection
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How This Year’s Oscars Became a Feminist Game Changer (Guest Blog)
“I believe the 2018 Oscars are going to have a lasting influence,” writes documentarian Aviva Kempner
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‘Good for Otto’ Theater Review: Ed Harris and Amy Madigan Are Stranded in Podunkville
Various troubled souls stumbled into a mental health clinic in David Rabe’s purely cornball new drama
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‘The Low Road’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Aims High to Bring Down the Rich
The playwright delivers an uproarious indictment of power, privilege and totally deregulated capitalism
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Did Andy Griffith Pave the Way for Donald Trump? (Guest Blog)
“I’ll say one thing for him, he’s got the courage of his ignorance,” says one character of the budding demagogue Griffith played in 1957’s “A Face in the Crowd”
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‘Queens’ Theater Review: A Harrowing Look at Immigrant Women Trapped in America
In Martyna Majok’s new play, poor women from around the world encounter a war zone in a shared basement living space in Queens, N.Y.
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The Timely Accessory I’m Wearing to This Year’s Oscars (Guest Blog)
“I only wanted to wear an accessory that reflected the courageous responses of the young adults who survived the Parkland, Fla., shooting,” writes documentarian Aviva Kempner
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‘Amy and the Orphans’ Theater Review: ‘American Horror Story’ Star Jamie Brewer Steals the Spotlight
Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play recalls ’60s-era Neil Simon comedies — but she has a dramatic bomb up her sleeve
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How Working for the Pentagon Prepared Me for Hollywood (Guest Blog)
In five years as adviser to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “Midnighters” writer-producer Alston Ramsay says he learned to over-plan — and be willing to toss those plans aside
