Monday, August 21, 2017
He’s known for his salt-of-the-earth performance in “Babe,” but this summer he’s been in the news for his rabble-rousing.
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On Broadway, there’s the gem-size “The Band’s Visit” and the star-studded “Meteor Shower.” Off Broadway, old is new with “Measure for Measure.”
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The cultural, sexual and demographic melting pot of Provincetown finally unites the comedian and the director.
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Michael Schulman on the new permanent Jim Henson exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens.
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Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical draws out what’s scary and silly about America’s armed malcontents.
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For the past ten years, a pseudonymous blogger has been writing Vanishing New York, chronicling the demises of beloved spots. Now he’s ready to unmask himself.
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Who says that theatre can’t cause a ruckus? On Sunday, as CBS was teasing “Broadway’s biggest night,” controversy was engulfing the Public Theatre’s production of “Julius Caesar,…
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Over the years, Lacombe has captured such iconic performers as Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, and Madonna (during the singer’s volatile marriage to Sean Penn).
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Actors are, by definition, an exhibitionist bunch. But they can also be deeply protective of a process that requires them to dive inside themselves before resurfacing with pearls of performa…
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The actress, poet and new director celebrates her film “Paint It Black” with family and a sisterhood of famous friends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PM“I’ve never been a girl-woman,” Elizabeth Marvel said recently. “I’ve always been a Woman with a capital ‘W.’ ” With her deep timbre and penetrating eyes, the forty-seven-ye…
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“A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society,” Henrik Ibsen wrote in 1878, proving himself, in 2017 parlance, to be a woke bae.…
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Among the signifiers of a New York summer—the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair—is the sound of blank verse. Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-Augu…
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Imagine writing yourself the role of a lifetime, only to be replaced by a photogenic, puppy-eyed celebrity version of yourself. Such was the fate of Dave Malloy, the writer, composer, and or…
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It seems like a lifetime ago that “Hamilton” swept the 2016 Tony nominations and pointed us toward a bright, progressive future. This year’s nominations, which were announced Tuesday …
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What’s sweeter than a rags-to-riches story? Cinderella, Little Orphan Annie, Eliza Doolittle—all made the journey from poverty to the palace, and all have been the subjects of Broadway m…
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It’s not easy to describe what Randy Weiner does for a living. Some people call him an “impresario,” but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum. …
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What did you do this morning? Perhaps you woke up at your regular time, made coffee in the same machine that you did yesterday, took the same commute to work that you do every day. In adult …
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Allison Janney spiralled, cranelike, up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. She stopped in front of a Kandinsky—“Black Lines” (1913), a jumble of Technicolor splotches—and gasped. “…
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The heroine of “Amélie,” the new musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre, is a dreamy Parisian café waitress who channels her childlike wonder into staging anonymous good deeds on the stree…
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“Firstly, I would like to apologize to those of you involved in our little box-office mixup,” a tuxedoed man with a posh accent tells us. “I do hope the six hundred and seventeen of yo…
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The singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles has one of those silvery voices that can bring intimacy to a large stage. Born in Eureka, California, Bareilles played in bars in Los Angeles before brea…
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The town of Gander, Newfoundland, has six traffic lights and a population of less than thirteen thousand. Snowmobiling is popular, and people leave their car doors unlocked while they’re a…
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Since the film “Groundhog Day” came out, in 1993, it’s been claimed by existentialists, Buddhists, political theorists, and comedy nerds alike. The story has become a modern parable: a…
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Not long after “La La Land” was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Academy Awards—after which “Moonlight” was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Acade…
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“I’m the king of the world! Whooooo!” That line is not, in fact, from President Trump’s Inaugural Address but from James Cameron’s infamous speech at the 1998 Academy Awards, when …
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences occupies a squat nineteen-seventies building on Wilshire Boulevard, surrounded by car dealerships. On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:00PMLisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fi…
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“We didn’t need dialogue,” Norma Desmond tells a young screenwriter in “Sunset Boulevard,” recalling her silent-film-era glory days. “We had faces!” Screenwriters famously suff…
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“Actors aren’t animals! They’re human beings!” the wise producer Leo Bloom once said, to which his partner, Max Bialystock, replied, “They are? Have you ever eaten with one?” Mos…
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For a certain stripe of Oscar obsessive—c’est moi—it’s all about actresses. A healthy variety of tough, sly, vulnerable, funny, chilling female performances signals that the state of…
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