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Monday, November 11, 2019

David Byrne and David Binder on Breaking Through to the Mainstream by Boris Kachka

Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the producer and the musician.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Admiration Society: Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove Talk Politics, Coming Out and Boarding School by Boris Kachka

Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the singer and the director.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Theater Review: Listening to Children of a Lesser God, 30 Years Later by Boris Kachka

There are two intense scenes in Children of a Lesser God's first Broadway revival, opening tonight at Studio 54 almost 30 years after its Tony-sweeping debut, that are already reason enough …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM[SHARE]

Monday, March 26, 2018

Theater Review: Lobby Hero Comes Knocking Again by Boris Kachka

Is there anything more timeless than the lobby of an average doorman building? It's a scuffed, eclectic oasis of permanence in a city that never sleeps"though its doormen sometimes do, dream…

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Why Was Times Theater Critic Charles Isherwood Fired? by Boris Kachka

Charles Isherwood woke up on the morning of February 3 with one of the best jobs in the country: second-string theater critic for the New York Times. Around noon that day, he was summoned to…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:37AM[SHARE]

Monday, January 18, 2016

Spending a Final Friday Night With David Bowie's Fans at Lazarus by Boris Kachka

The play wasn't starting for another half-hour, and already someone was crying. The New York Theatre Workshop's downtown audience isn't prone to exuberant emotional displays " leave that to …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:59PM[SHARE]

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Playwright Annie Baker on the Limits of Dramatic Memoir, Her Odd Jobs in Reality TV, and Why She Finds Hollywood More Appealing Than Broadway by Boris Kachka

You couldn't write an argument for optimism about New York theater without invoking Annie Baker, who, at 34, is practically a metonym for the best of her Off Broadway generation: creators ma…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:21PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

William Goldman Brings the Pain to the Stage With a Broadway Adaptation of Misery by Boris Kachka

"Screenwriting is shitwork," William Goldman wrote in his 1983 industry bible Adventures in the Screen Trade, source of both the famous dictum "Nobody knows anything" and the popular notion …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:08AM[SHARE]

Monday, May 25, 2015

A Drama Queen and Her Princess by Boris Kachka

Marian Seldes meets Lily Rabe.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Touchdown in Times Square by Boris Kachka

Vince Lombardi’s 40-year broken-field run, from Green Bay to Broadway.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM[SHARE]

The Accidental Actress by Boris Kachka

Grace Gummer joins the family business, after a few detours.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Dining With Bill Nighy, Broadway’s Newest Chef by Boris Kachka

On a slow Thursday night at Picholine, the Upper West Side's Michelin-starred gem of foam and fromage, Bill Nighy ambles into the kitchen. "Completely sensational," he tells Terrance Brennan…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Alice Lee Kept a Line Open From Her Sister, To Kill a Mockingbird's Harper Lee, to the Public by Boris Kachka

If Alice F. Lee didn't happen to be Nelle Harper Lee's sister, lawyer, and roommate, the AP might not have run an obituary on the occasion of her death on Monday at the age of 103. But one o…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AM[SHARE]

Sunday, August 19, 2012