‘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
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‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’ Theater Review: Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming Rebury Marilyn Monroe
Anne Carson’s opaque new play with music performs the unique trick of mangling both Euripides and Monroe
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Don’t Boycott the Beverly Hills Hotel – Shame the Sultan of Brunei Instead (Guest Blog)
Why sign a petition against an establishment that you’d probably never visit?
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‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Theater Review: The Union Organizer Fumbles It Again
John Doyle takes the “go green” approach to Marc Blitzstein’s quasi-classic
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‘Do You Feel Anger?’ Theater Review: Beware Justin Long and Other Office Clowns
The crazies rule in Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s offbeat new comedy set in a debt collection agency
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Jordan Peele Not Wanting to Cast White Male Leads (Guest Blog)
“Looking at the highest-profile Hollywood films with prominent black characters, one might think we exist only in relation to white people,” Jeremy Helligar writes
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Theater Review: Sam Mendes Directs a Family’s Financial Undoing
Stefano Massini’s saga of an American empire gone belly up makes its American debut
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‘Ain’t No Mo” Theater Review: Barack Obama Pilots a One-Way Flight to Africa in This Sharp Satire
The U.S. government makes an offer that black people can’t refuse in Jordan E. Cooper’s astounding new play
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‘King Kong’ Star Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, One of Hollywood’s First Power Couples (Guest Blog)
“Wray is the most famous scream queen of them all. Riskin is quite arguably the father of romantic comedy,” TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz says
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‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Broadway Review: The Temptations Fight the Grind of Fame
A star-making turn by Ephraim Sykes, playing the late David Ruffin, proves that one performer is sometimes greater than the group
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‘White Noise’ Theater Review: Daveed Diggs Dazzles in Suzan-Lori Parks’ New Race Fantasy
The Tony-winning “Hamilton” actor just wants a good night’s sleep
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How Hollywood Fights Anti-Semitism – and All Manner of Religious Intolerance (Guest Blog)
“Many cultures share a common thread of oppression,” Rabbi David Baron says just after the New Zealand massacre
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‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ Theater Review: John Guare Takes a Big Dip Off the Island
Fast and furious is not always a good thing in the theater. Guare’s new comedy exhausts more than it engages
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‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase Are So in Love
She’s a movie star slumming in her ex-husband’s second-rate production of the “Shrew.” Cole Porter and the Bard would approve.
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Why Social Impact Entertainment Is Ready for the Spotlight in Hollywood (Guest Blog)
“Mass entertainment and deeper social messages are not mutually exclusive,” writes Peter Bisanz, executive director of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT
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‘The Mother’ Theater Review: An Empty Nest Imprisons Isabelle Huppert
Chris Noth joins the actress in Florian Zeller’s latest exploration into parental madness
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‘Be More Chill’ Broadway Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on Broadway with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhf–a’ Theater Review: That Title Is a Problem
Muhf–a? Tori Sampson just lost her core audience for this cautionary tale about teens who think looks are everything
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Alyssa Milano: This Women’s History Month, Let’s Celebrate the Women Making History Today
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their groundbreaking Fair Food Program provide a model for better working conditions
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Why Will Smith Is Black Enough to Play Richard Williams (Guest Column)
Smith’s casting probably has more to do with his bankability and box office potential than fear of a too-black actor, Jeremy Helligar writes
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‘The Cake’ Theater Review: ‘That ’70s Show’ Mom Debra Jo Rupp Plays a Lovable Bigot
Cute homophobes meet loving lesbians in a North Carolina bakery in Bekah Brunstetter’s sermon of a play
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‘Daddy’ Theater Review: Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet Discover Lust in a Bel-Air Pool
Regression and mutual exploitation are the hallmarks of an art-world affair in Jeremy O. Harris’ brilliant new play
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Luke Perry Was Way Too Cool for Me, But He Still Loaned Me His Jean Jacket (Guest Blog)
“Even in the midst of absolutely crazy, indecipherable fame, he was open and honest,” veteran entertainment journalist Jeff Giles recalls
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‘Superhero’ Theater Review: Tom Kitt and John Logan’s New Musical Creates an Extraordinary Ex-Bus Driver
Bryce Pinkham finds another eccentric/bizarre/screwed-up character to call his own
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‘Alice by Heart’ Theater Review: Lewis Carroll Gets Stuck in a London Tube in Duncan Sheik’s Musical
Another stage adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” fails to re-create the magic of the original
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‘Marys Seacole’ Theater Review: 2 Jamaican Nurses Bring Comfort to an Alien World
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, caregivers speak to each other across the centuries to find that little has changed
