18 stories by "Emily Nussbaum"
A new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy hinge on a universal anxiety: How well do you know your partner?
Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.
Camp has become the go-to aesthetic for Broadway musicals. These two new shows dare to be sincere.
Gina Gionfriddo's zinger-filled sex farce and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's confounding musical are cathartic catnip.
Sidney Lumet's kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots.
Clare Barron's "You Got Older" is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn's "What We Did Before Our Moth Days" is defiantly tender about an amoral one.
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths.
Two plays soaked in technological anxiety.
A Broadway revival arrives at a moment when paranoia plots are everywhere.
On the eve of his new book, "Never Mind the Happy," the composer dishes on his career ups and downs"from touring with Bette Midler to getting caught in Twitter wars.
After quitting his gig with the Kennedy Center in protest, the Gen X indie rocker is turning his talents toward MAGA trolls and Charlie Brown.
The "Real Pain" director teamed up with the TV writer Meredith Scardino to compete in the 24 Hour Musicals, for charity. Their muse? A West Elm lamp.
Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
Despite my profession, there’s plenty of television I don’t watch: cooking shows and Fox News, the sixteen post-Vegas seasons of “The Real World,” sports that are not…
An old lady sways back and forth onstage, working her jaw. “Can’t no old man do nothin’ for me but bring me a message from a young man,” she says. Her eyes widen, her…
The sixth episode of "Bunheads," a new series on ABC Family, ended with an odd sequence worth rewinding. Three teen ballerinas stared straight into the camera"eyelids smudged, beatnik-style"…
Since its delightful pilot, the show has taken a nosedive so deep I'm surprised my ears haven't popped. All the caveats I noted but dismissed in my earlier review have become the definingly …
Backstage and out on the town with the feminist TV pioneer, now in the limelight again, as a "dumb blonde."
