Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano star in Sam Shepard’s legendary play about fathers, competition, and male angst, Sarah Larson writes.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:00AMMark 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…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:00AMOn 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 …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:37PMThe 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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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:53PMIn 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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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:41PMLast 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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