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Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
March 12, 2024Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
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Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
March 9, 2024A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
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Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
March 2, 2024Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
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Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
February 3, 2024Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
January 29, 2024I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
December 23, 2023"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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Casanova by Ian Kelly
December 6, 2023Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
November 24, 2023Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
November 3, 2023And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
October 30, 2023The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...