Culture
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Dick Wolf Fires ‘Law & Order’ Spinoff Writer Craig Gore for Threatening to ‘Light Up’ Looters
Gore wrote on Facebook Monday that he would ”light mother——s up“
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Mort Drucker, Mad Magazine Caricature King, Dies at 91
Drucker had an illustrious 55-year career parodying famous TV and film stars within the famed magazine’s pages
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Coronavirus: Quarantines Lead to Major Spike in TV Viewing, Nielsen Says
South Korea sees a 20% surge in TV viewing during widespread self-isolation
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
Young Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Headlands’ Theater Review: A Classic Film Noir Finds Its Way to the Stage
Christopher Chen’s new mystery intrigues with its many twists and turns. If only he had put a more cynical sleuth at its center
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‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
C.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the ”Black Swan“ star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
Lauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
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‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ Theater Review: Carla Gugino and Company Face Their Own End
Alice Birch’s new play exposes the false escape hatch that is motherhood
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‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Theater Reviews: Our Favorite Monsters Get a Makeover
Bram Stoker gets an unexpected transfusion. Mary Shelley should demand a rewrite
