
Culture
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Dick Wolf Fires ‘Law & Order’ Spinoff Writer Craig Gore for Threatening to ‘Light Up’ Looters
By Tim Baysinger | June 2, 2020 @ 11:44 AMGore wrote on Facebook Monday that he would ”light mother——s up“
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Mort Drucker, Mad Magazine Caricature King, Dies at 91
By Tim Baysinger | April 9, 2020 @ 12:39 PMDrucker 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
By Sean Burch | March 16, 2020 @ 11:17 AMSouth 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
By Robert Hofler | March 9, 2020 @ 6:00 PMCeline 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
By Robert Hofler | March 5, 2020 @ 6:00 PMConor 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
By Robert Hofler | March 3, 2020 @ 7:00 PMA 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
By Robert Hofler | March 3, 2020 @ 6:30 PMRichard 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!
By Robert Hofler | February 25, 2020 @ 6:30 PMYoung 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
By Robert Hofler | February 25, 2020 @ 6:00 PMLucas 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
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:30 PMChristopher 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
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:00 PMC.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
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:00 PMLauren 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?
By Robert Hofler | February 20, 2020 @ 5:00 PMThe 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
By Robert Hofler | February 18, 2020 @ 6:00 PMAlice 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
By Robert Hofler | February 17, 2020 @ 6:00 PMBram Stoker gets an unexpected transfusion. Mary Shelley should demand a rewrite