‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ Broadway Review: Who’s More Divine, the Bard or Janet McTeer?
Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy looks back with admiration at a “childishly egotistical” genius in the theater
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Hey, Jimmy Kimmel: It’s Cruel to Book Wild Animals on Your Show (Guest Blog)
“Wildlife entertainers treat animals as if they were little more than stuffed toys and downplay their extremely specialized needs,” veterinarian Christine Capaldo writes
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‘I Was Most Alive With You’ Theater Review: Making a Case Against the Book of Job
Everything but the locusts descend on a family and their adopted gay deaf son in Craig Lucas’s new play
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I Want to Be an Ally for Diversity Despite Losing Jobs Because I’m a Straight White Man (Guest Blog)
Joe McClean says he lost a directing gig when he wanted to cast a black actor in a lead role because the producer said it would “limit” the casting pool
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‘The True’ Theater Review: Edie Falco Gets Stranded in Albany
Sharr White’s new play puts a foul-mouth political dynamo center stage and surrounds her with male ciphers
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News Media’s Digital Disruption: How Smartphones and Social Platforms Gave Rise to Citizen Journalism (All Things Video Podcast)
This weeks guest: Jon Cornwell, co-founder and CEO of Newsflare
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‘Bel Canto': Inside the Beloved Novel’s Long Path to the Big Screen (Guest Blog)
“Sixteen years is really not all that long to get an independent film made these days,” producer Caroline Baron says
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‘Collective Rage’ Theater Review: Dana Delany Switches Teams in an Absurdist Delight
Jen Silverman’s comedy is perfectly nonsensical in its telling exploration of five women’s very fluid sex life.
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Investigating the Intersection of Media and Technology (All Things Video Podcast)
This week’s guest: David Bloom
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When Burt Reynolds Complained About Me to Johnny Carson on ‘The Tonight Show’ (Guest Blog)
A reporter’s perfect interview with Reynolds ended up irking the star, who died this week at 82
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Carl Reiner Pays Tribute to ‘Genius’ Neil Simon: ‘The Guy With the Voice of a Turtle’ (Exclusive Video)
The two comedy legends worked together on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” in early 1950s
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3 Ways Studios and Networks Can Engage Young Audiences in a Good Way (Guest Blog)
Freeform, Hello Sunshine and others are leading the way
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Alyssa Milano on Asia Argento Accusations: ‘Stop Trying to Undermine the #MeToo Movement’ (Guest Blog)
“It is sad and infuriating to say the least, but one victim’s alleged horrid behavior does not nullify an entire movement,” actress-activist writes
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Doesn’t Speak for the Entire Asian Experience (Guest Blog)
Author William Gee Wong argues that the new hit rom-com is a welcome sign of progress in Hollywood — with an imperfect message
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‘Pretty Woman’ Broadway Review: The Hooker Julia Roberts Made Famous Is Back, and She Can Belt
Samantha Barks and Andy Karl take over for Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in a too-faithful stage adaptation of the movie. But who forgot to invite Cinderella?
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‘A Star Is Born’ Again and Again and Again – Will the Movie Remakes Ever Stop? (Guest Blog)
“Hollywood likes stories that have pre-existing audience awareness,” former Fox Searchlight exec Joe Pichirallo says
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‘Gettin’ the Band Back Together’ Broadway Review: They Were Better Off Going Solo
A new musical about the unemployed in New Jersey recalls the glory days of the vanity show on Broadway
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‘Be More Chill’ Theater Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on stage with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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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
