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Good Television: Battling to Maintain Integrity on Reality TV
When Rod McLachlan's smart, passionate play Good Television begins in the offices of Rehabilitation, a cable show that bears a strong resemblance to A&E's Intervention, you may draw a breath, preparing for an excoriation of the very existence of tha...
by James Hannaham on June 12, 2013
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The Tutors School Some Tough (and Trite) Lessons
In Erica Lipez's The Tutors--now playing at Second Stage Uptown, directed by Thomas Kail--a trio of earnest young pedagogues gets schooled in some tough (and somewhat trite) life lessons. Former college buddies and now roommates and business partner...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on June 12, 2013
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Le Corbusier's Paper Utopias - Idea man
"You must be sympathetic to man's condition in his environment," the modernist architect Le Corbusier said in a 1957 film. "That's what interests me, and I've found in painting a way to develop this idea. It's an exciting way, but dangerous." With m...
by R. C. Baker on June 12, 2013
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John Guare Looks to the East in 3 Kinds of Exile
At 75, many a man might reasonably think of retirement. Instead, John Guare has embarked on a fresh career. In 3 Kinds of Exile, the portmanteau play at Atlantic Theater, directed by Neil Pepe, Guare not only supplies the script, he also appears in ...
by Alexis Soloski on June 12, 2013
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Peeping Ed: Watching Hopper Watch
"Maybe I am not very human. What I wanted to do," Edward Hopper once explained, "was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." A telling observation from an artist whose characters are as enigmatically motivated as the gumshoes and dames in a Raymo...
by R. C. Baker on June 5, 2013
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Marcellus Shale's Generations Clash Over Land Rights and Ominous Fracking
Would you let gas companies drill beneath your yard, if it meant a payout so huge you'd never have to work again? Your answer might surprise you--so suggests Marcellus Shale, a new play about fracking from venerable downtown ensemble Talking Band. W...
by Miriam Felton-Dansky on June 5, 2013
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Far From Heaven Stays Strictly Earthbound; Classic Stage Company Revives Caucasian Chalk Circle
Don't bother bringing tissues to Far From Heaven, the chilly musical adaptation of Todd Haynes's 2002 film. Haynes updated a classic Douglas Sirk weepie, trading Sirk's class concerns for racial and sexual themes. Set in 1957 Connecticut, the story ...
by Alexis Soloski on June 5, 2013
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The Basilica Is a Holy Grind - Howling at God--and playwrights
As Mando Alvarado's The Basilica (from the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) grinds on past one tragic, hard-to-accept plot development, and Joe (Felix Solis), a crumpled beer can of a dad, bellows drunkenly at God, audiences, too, may feel like bese...
by Alan Scherstuhl on June 5, 2013
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Gorilla: Welcome to the Corporate Jungle - A team-building workshop goes awry
Five middle-aged men and one woman trapped in a room together is never a bad place to start. Set in a drab hotel conference space, Rhea Leman's Gorilla concerns a group of corporate misfits who have been marked as poor performers and the straight-fa...
by Angela Ashman on June 5, 2013
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Mark Greenwold Paints Public Nightmares - Slow to offend
First it was slow food, the European social movement that made Ronald McDonald quit Rome's Spanish Steps in the 1980s. Then came slow gardening, slow traveling, slow fashion, slow media, and slow parenting (Park Slope helicopter moms take note). Isn...
by Christian Viveros-Fauné on May 29, 2013
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Murder Ballad and The Weir Go Beyond the Grave; John Turturro Plays House at BAM
Theaters are haunted places. Specters are said to lurk in dressing rooms, phantoms in the fly space. Even the most unsuperstitious houses leave ghost lights burning. Earlier productions haunt each new revival and new plays must shake off the wraiths...
by Alexis Soloski on May 29, 2013
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Los Carpinteros Moonwalk through the Crack-up - A communist party
Jimmy Breslin was right: There is no more beautiful sight than a heaving street full of people. In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that sensuous humanist observation goes double. Picture a Times Square flash mob mugged by the hurly-burly of New Or...
by Christian Viveros-Faune on May 22, 2013
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Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen Continue to Live Dazzling Parallel Lives Onstage - Golden girls
From a certain vantage point, it's hard not to suspect that stage veterans Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen have been living parallel lives--a suspicion that only gained credence when, at this year's Obies ceremony, Meryl Streep presented them with...
by Angela Ashman on May 22, 2013
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In a Bumper Year, Four New American Plays Won Obies; Eight More Were Strong Contenders - The plays are the thing
It was the worst of years; it was the best of years. I've never felt as much frustration and agony while theatergoing as I did during 2012-13, nor such a strong feeling that the theater was on the verge of collapse. So was the world around it: Explo...
by Michael Feingold on May 22, 2013
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Summer Guide: Books
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think we know the notorious Milgram experiments of 1961--but that's because we believed what we were told....
by James Hannaham on May 22, 2013
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Summer Guide: Dance
Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: The People to Come June 25-29 Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught duets in a lobby restroom at the Gershwin Hotel. For The People to Come she invites audiences to participat...
by Elizabeth Zimmer on May 22, 2013
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Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons
A few years ago, a playwright, a director, and seven actors sheltered together in a disused bank vault far below Wall Street. Huddled behind a thick door that cell-phone service couldn't penetrate, they imagined themselves as survivors of a nuclear ...
by Alexis Soloski on May 22, 2013
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Songs of Disco and Dictators - Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Imelda Marcos and the bubble of power
When David Byrne dances he seems both absorbed in the movement of his body and detached from it, torso and legs vibrating rhythmically, face oddly expressionless. In his recent book, How Music Works, he describes his terpsichorean style as "jerky...
by Alexis Soloski on May 22, 2013
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Summer Guide: Art
James Turrell June 21-September 25, 2013 From the Museum of the Hard to Believe: Light and earth art pioneer James Turrell has not had an important survey exhibition in the U.S. since 1984. That glaring omission will be remedied this summer wh...
by Christian Viveros-Faune on May 22, 2013
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Hollywood Babble On: Jack Goldstein's Disappearing Act
With his aviator shades, shoulder-length locks, and blas good looks, Jack Goldstein could have fronted some '70s band you don't quite remember. In actuality, the Montreal native who grew up in Los Angeles was part of the first graduating class at C...
by R. C. Baker on May 15, 2013
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The Film Society Can't Quite Make the Leap From Past to Present
What happens to a political play that's three decades old? Can it keep its emotional charge, or does it wither when its social relevance fades? You may be asking these… More >>
Blame It on Magritte
You might assume that the Photoshop fantasias of our age would make the visual conundrums of René Magritte's pre-war paintings feel quaint. Certainly the beguiling originality of his fractured figures… More >>
Deceptive Practices: The Glass Menagerie's Poignant Con Game
The theater is a swindle, an exercise in sham. Every play operates on principles of treachery: Flimsy set pieces substitute for solid spaces; people assume names and accents other than… More >>
Not What Happened: A Meditation on Truth and Historical Accuracy
Provocations don't come much gentler than Ain Gordon's Not What Happened, which concluded a brief run at BAM's Next Wave Festival. A meditation on truth and historical accuracy, directed by… More >>
Arguendo Is Full of Supremely Naughty Charm
Who knew Supreme Court justices have such complicated, libidinous inner lives? Anthony Kennedy muses on adults-only car washes. Sandra Day O'Connor contemplates pornographic videos. Antonin Scalia obsesses over nude opera.… More >>
Tragic Lovers Get Teenage Kicks in Romeo and Juliet Revival
The ardor animating the latest Romeo and Juliet seems less the marriage of true minds than the commingling of hot bods. In David Leveaux's revival at Broadway's Richard Rodgers, Orlando… More >>
The Propeller Group Take on the Art World's Celebrity Fixation
"Are celebrities the new art stars?" asked a Newsweek cover story in July. A few months later, certain windy developments (or popcorn farts) that passed for world-shaking events on TMZ… More >>
Q&A: Mario Alberto Zambrano on Taking the Leap From Dancer to Novelist With Lotería
The game Lotería can best be described as a Mexican version of bingo, but instead of numbers, each card bears a striking image, such as beautiful sea goddess La Sirena… More >>
Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Latest Movingly Illustrates a Sexual Awakening
Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life and Times: Episodes 4.5 and 5—at this year’s Crossing the Line Festival—are the newest installments in an epic performance depicting the life story of Kristin… More >>
Anna Nicole: A Cautionary Tale Against Gigantic Breast Implants
What homeless diva recently threatened to commit suicide if her rich patrons didn't cough up $20 million by the end of the year? That's right—the New York City Opera. So… More >>
