Monday, January 28, 2019
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano star in Sam Shepard’s legendary play about fathers, competition, and male angst, Sarah Larson writes.
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Mark Mulcahy is the kind of musician that people proselytize about; several years ago, I started doing it myself. He’s has had a long and varied career—with his band Miracle Legion, beg…
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On a Monday night this winter, at a gala in a Beaux-Arts former bank downtown, the young playwright Rachel Bonds, whose luminous “Sundown, Yellow Moon” is currently onstage uptown, made …
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The network-TV pop musical, usually performed live, has picked up steam in recent years, with unnerving results. Watching Christopher Walken fop sleepily through “Hook’s Tango” or Carr…
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On a Friday night in June at Joe’s Pub, at the Public Theatre, as the writer and performer Isaac Oliver’s show began, an announcement came over the P.A. system: “Isaac Oliver will be p…
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One of the pleasures of the portrait-in-greatness podcast—“WTF with Marc Maron” and many dozens of others, multiplying all the time—is the dual presentation of culture and character,…
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The idea of most pop artists performing at the Café Carlyle—the intimate, elegant cabaret space at the Carlyle Hotel—wouldn’t make intuitive sense, but the idea of Debbie Harry singin…
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In a week when flying off to Neverland held some appeal but lovely thoughts were hard to come by, NBC, at long last, aired “Peter Pan Live!,” a three-hour performance, months in the hypi…
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
James Franco and Chris O’Dowd discuss their roles in “Of Mice and Men” with a team of Steinbeck experts.
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The composer Barry Mann and the lyricist Cynthia Weil were in town to see “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway.”
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Last Thursday evening, twenty members of Elevator Repair Service, the downtown theatre company, met at a multiplex in Times Square, collected twenty pairs of 3-D glasses, took escalators to …
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Last Tuesday night was the opening of “The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream,” a Broadway reunion of the New Jersey rock band that broke up in 1970.
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On Friday evening at the Café Carlyle, before the second-to-last performance of “Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin’ Over and Out,” Stritch’s farewell show, th…
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There he was: Barry Manilow, sixty-nine years old, spiffy in a black dinner jacket, black pants, and white shirt; hair moussed and mussed; face lifted. His expression was one of joy. He wave…
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