Tag: review
Doreen Taylor Gets Her ‘Oscar’
An Off-Broadway musical fronts a hologram of Oscar Hammerstein II -- and faces headwinds.
In Season 3, HBO’s ‘True Detective’ Finally Gets a Clue
A show returns to critical-darling status...if you can forgive Stephen Dorff's wig.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Wisdom of Poets, and Trump
Catharine Arnold's "Pandemic 1918" prompts thoughts of mortality and the need for an examined life.
Will Lillian Hellman Return to the Boards for ‘Days to Come’?
Revisiting the work of a woman who did not cut her conscience to fit any theatrical fashion.
Fiction by Jake Tapper, Jonathan Ames Kills and Thrills
Protagonists of two new novels battle powerful underground organizations. The similarities end there.
Beyond the James Dean Mythology with Graham’s ‘Giant’
Looking back at the novel and the iconic Hollywood film, with its biting indictment of greed, misogyny and bigotry in Texas.
Elizabeth Catlett Sculpts Black Women Ready for Revolution
An artist with something profound to say about race, gender and dignity.
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Fantasyland’ Got Me All Worked Up
In "Fantasyland," Americans are fundamentally kooky believers in anything; sometimes for the good, sometimes not.
2017 Politics Got You Down? Let William Dean Howells Be Your...
Nationalistic rhetoric, fear of immigrants, police killings of citizens? How the Haymarket case reflects 2017 politics.
With “Vacationland,” Comic Liar John Hodgman Spills Truth
The onetime "Daily Show" player turns serious in a new collection of personal essays.
“The Phoenix Years”: Celebrating Chinese Artists’ Persistence
Madeleine O'Dea's new history examines China's post-Mao creative life.
3D Opera ‘Blank Out’ Tells Human Story Using Technology
The 3D video in Michel van der Aa’s chamber opera “Blank Out” is no gimmick.
“The Sense of the Past”: Henry James’s Rickety WABAC Machine
The unfinished, posthumously published 1917 novel transports its hero back to 1820.
Sarah Goldhagen: How Built Forms Form Us
Goldhagen discusses the science of architecture's powerful effects on human beings.
“After Andy”: When a Former London “It” Girl Went Warhol
In her memoir, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni also tells tales of Pinter, Jagger and Lagerfeld.
At JFK’s Centenary, Historian Steven Watts Views a Mixed Legacy
"JFK and the Masculine Mystique" looks at how extreme male energy branded the early 1960s.
Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire, Sittin’ in a Stoppard Tree
Radcliffe still has that puckish quality he's always had -- and it serves him well.
Courting Chekhov: Cate Blanchett on Broadway
Richard Roxburgh, womanizer. Cate Blanchett, womanized.
“The Front Page”: Broadway’s Big Banner Headline
Nathan Lane heads a superb cast examining Jazz Age chicanery.
Rachel Weisz Delivers Plenty (and Then Some)
The endlessly complex and elusive Susan Traherne remains a grueling and epic role.
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
