Didion v. Didion by Amanda Fortini

In The Year of Magical Thinking, the writer picks on herself.

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From Screen to Stage By Mac Rogers

How to turn a movie into a musical.

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West End Story by June Thomas

My Week of London Theatergoing

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Break a Leg! by Zachary Pincus-Roth

No, really, break it. We need more violence onstage.

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Bad Theater Happens by June Thomas

The problem with David Hare's Iraq play.

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We're Soaring! We're Flying! By Marisa Meltzer

For every generation, there is a musical.

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With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility by Jason Zinoman

Spider-Man is a wild, sexed-up, Greek mythologized train wreck. But it's Julie Taymor's train wreck, through and through.

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Let's Just Skip Ahead to Spider-Man: The Musical: The Musical by Tom Scocca

The tale of the ongoing catastrophe of the mega-musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark keeps getting deeper and richer.

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The Scottsboro Boys by Jason Zinoman

Is the most ambitious new musical of the Broadway season racist? You could get that impression from reading the press coverage of The Scottsboro Boys, a wildly entertaining coda to the rich.…

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The Scottsboro Boys by Jason Zinoman

Is the most ambitious new musical of the Broadway season racist?

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Lombardi Punts by Jason Zinoman

The new play about the Green Bay Packers coach is more interested in the myth than the man.

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Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: How the storyteller betrayed his art. by Jason Zinoman

Mike Daisey didn't just break the rules of journalism. He did a disservice to his own art.

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Lunch with David Mamet: The dramatist says he's "crazy" about Sarah Palin. - By John Gapper - Slate Magazine by John Gapper

Even sitting at a banquette in one corner of the nearly empty Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, an old-style grill in Greenwich Village, with his orange Perspex-framed glasses lying on the table in…

SOURCE: Slate at 3:31pm on June 14, 2011[SHARE]

Brits on Broadway: What makes British theater work in the U.S.? - By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson - Slate Magazine by Andrew Edgecliffe-johnson

The first time Sonia Friedman saw Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's raucous comedy about a charismatic Wiltshire drug dealer fighting eviction from his caravan, the award-winning British theatre …

SOURCE: Slate at 10:30am on June 13, 2011[SHARE]

Why the Tonys Matter This Year by Jason Zinoman

Two brave, timely new American dramas are vying for best play.

SOURCE: Slate at 10:57am on May 4, 2011[SHARE]