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Dear Vice-President-elect Pence,
It's an odd fact of "Othello" that Iago has more lines than the title character. But inconspicuousness"the ability to keep his own name out of the spotlight while cruelly manipulating events…
Around three-thirty yesterday afternoon, Richard Nelson made his final edits to a project that has spanned this parlous political season: a trilogy of quiet and sad dramas called "The Gabrie…
Is Queen Elizabeth II interesting? Not in a world-historical sense"the dwindling power of the monarchy in the postcolonial age, the assortment of turmoils that have raged around her durin…
The twenty-three-year-old actor Ben Platt, known for his adorkable role in the "Pitch Perfect" movies, delivers a deeper portrait of nerd angst in "Dear Evan Hansen," a new musical by Benj P…
Few living actors can match the raw star power of Cate Blanchett, whose hypnotic self-possession"she has the gravitational pull of a small planet"made her a natural for roles like Queen Eliz…
A week ago, Lady Gaga released her fifth album, “Joanne,” which has a stripped-down sound that is quite different from her previous efforts. She has promoted the album with pe…
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 Carrie Und…
"Michael Moore in TrumpLand" isn't quite the film that I expected it to be, and that's all to the good. Moore is, of course, a genius of political satire, deploying his persona"as a populist…
If there is a plaque commemorating the location of the entrance to Alfred Ely Beach's pneumatic railway, built in secret below 265 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, the writer Sam Lubell and I d…
Some actresses prefer to meet a journalist for the first time with a press agent in tow; some opt for the neutrality of a restaurant; some suggest the distracting hubbub of the sound stage. …
In seventh grade, I became completely obsessed with the 1981 musical "Merrily We Roll Along," by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. It was my introduction to cynicism, set to a brassy Broadw…
In an era of binge-watching, live-tweeting, and the Oculus Rift, how can theatre compete as all-consuming entertainment? Perhaps it's our desire to be more than spectators"to be sucked headl…
Anna Deavere Smith has carved out a singular niche straddling performance art, academia, and public-interest journalism. Her documentary solo works, in which she plays a panoply of interview…
It's become a cliché of this election season that, if you were to present the current Presidential race as fiction, no one would believe it. So what better time to hear from a group of fict…
The thirty-eight-year-old actor Andrew Rannells is part of a new crop of gay stars"like Chris Colfer and Tituss Burgess"who never had to bother to be closeted in the public eye. Lean and boy…
There's something unnervingly wholesome about Olmsted, the new garden-to-table eatery in Prospect Heights. Enter it and you find an alternate reality: bathrooms smell like lemon verbena, bea…
In four days, we saw every show ever produced on or off Broadway except "Hamilton"; sadly, none of us was willing step up and perform the necessary sex work. We devoured upward of three dinn…
What were you up to on Friday, September 16th? Did you think about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Did you talk about the election with the people you encountered? Chances are that you did,…
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon are two Upper West Side alter kakers who are partial to turtlenecks, cultural programs at the Y, and the oeuvre of Alan Alda. For a time, they hosted a …
A few days before graduating from Columbia University, in May, 2015, the actress and model Hari Nef showed up at a Flatiron office building to meet Ivan Bart, the president of IMG, the agenc…
Writing that gets under your skin, in your bones, will play in your head and memory like nothing else. While painting, photography, and movies can come at you with a very particular force"an…
Growing up in Manhattan in the eighties, I loved the TV commercials for the electronics chain "Crazy Eddie." What kid wouldn't? The pitchman, an unholy mashup of Pee-wee Herman and Donald Tr…
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, who bear a curious resemblance to the comedians John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, are two Upper West Side alter kakers partial to turtlenecks, bra-sniffing, an…
On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I went to see two classical Greek tragedies about the toll of war on the human psyche. General Joseph Dunford, Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
