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Mike Nichols

  • Theater

    March 21, 2012

    It's Miller Time: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Death of a Salesman

    Mike Nichols helms the Broadway revival of an American classic

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: The Nonprofit 1 Percent

    This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher discovers that some nonprofit managers in New York -- including at the Jewish Guild for the Blind -- aren't just rich, but among society's wealthiest: "Although he runs a nonprofit, Alan Morse is comfortably in the 1 percent that Occupy Wall Street ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    New Life For Death of A Salesman: My Review

    It's not the fault of anyone in the new Mike Nichols-directed production of the Arthur Miller classic Death of A Salesman that the definitive revival was done in 1999. That one, directed by Robert Falls, and starring a powerful Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman and a wrenching Elizabeth Franz as his wif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Cher Was Almost a Transsexual!

    ​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Reviewing 'The King of Marvin Gardens' Not Knowing if Nixon Won

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 9, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 45 films in focus by Andrew Sarris By the time you read this column you will know the results of the 1972 election. You will know who won and by how large a margin, and everything you read will be color ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Andrew Stein, The Man Who Wanted to Be Mayor, Admits Tax Scam

    ​Former City Council President and one-time mayoral candidate Andrew Stein pled guilty yesterday to a $1 million tax fraud. This didn't rate big headlines since Stein long ago faded into the city's rearview mirror, which is where he always belonged. If he was spotted at all in recent years, it ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    LAUGH LINES

    Take a tour of Jules Feiffer's life

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    'The Graduate': Better Than the Book! (There Was a Book? Who Knew?)

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 28, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 11 Films by Andrew Sarris "THE GRADUATE" has been adapted by Mike Nichols, Buck Henry, and Calder Willingham from a novel of the same title by Charles Webb. I like the move much better than the book, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Andy Warhol Films Taylor Mead's Ass

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 30, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 7 The Homosexual Clown As Underground Star by Sally Kempton People have been saying for years that Taylor Mead will someday be discovered by the commercial theatre. This has never happened, at least no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Clip Job: Who's Afraid of Andrew Sarris? (Maybe Mike Nichols Should Be)

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 15, 2009

    Angels in America

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 8, 2009

    Primary Colors

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Economy Doesn't Stop George Soros from Enjoying Chekhov, Ethan Hawke

    credit: Joan Marcus It's nice to know that the meltdown of the world economy is not preventing George Soros from enjoying classic Russian theater. The international financier was just one of a surprising number of notables taking in Wednesday night's opening of the Sam Mendes-directed The Cherry O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    Clip Job: Lenny Bruce and the Hipper Than Thou

    credit: Joan Marcus It's nice to know that the meltdown of the world economy is not preventing George Soros from enjoying classic Russian theater. The international financier was just one of a surprising number of notables taking in Wednesday night's opening of the Sam Mendes-directed The Cherry O ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 6, 2008

    Three New Productions Tackle Color Lines

    Race and history trouble The Country Girl and Sound and the Fury; Thurgood gets them right.

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    CAN THIS BIRD FLY?

    Great casting may make this one soar

  • Film

    December 11, 2007

    Moolah for Mullahs

    All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie

  • Film

    December 4, 2007

    Grounded: The Kite Runner Just Won't Fly

    Still, controversy notwithstanding

  • Theater

    March 13, 2007

    Comforter Zone

    Mattress springs eternal: 50 years of who beds whom, from Tea and Sympathy to Tim Miller

  • Film

    December 19, 2006

    Predator v. Predator

    Everyone's miserable in Patrick Marber's latest, and it feels so good

  • Columns

    June 13, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Everyone's miserable in Patrick Marber's latest, and it feels so good

  • Film

    February 14, 2006

    May Days

    Recapping a reclusive auteur's brilliant career, from the Jewish new wave to a legendary bomb

  • Film

    October 25, 2005

    A Shag and a Shrug in an Entertaining but Corny Adaptation

    Recapping a reclusive auteur's brilliant career, from the Jewish new wave to a legendary bomb

  • Film

    September 20, 2005

    Mother Knew Best

    Georgia on our mind: An appreciation of the Squid director's film-critic mom

  • Theater

    May 24, 2005

    Dismaying Experience

    Elaine May's triple bill of one-acts: Out-of-date studies of people who've run out of dates

  • Theater

    March 15, 2005

    Saving Martha

    Is Albee's Virginia Woolf a great play? At any rate, it's one that can live again and again.

  • Theater

    March 15, 2005

    Fresh From the Can

    Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

  • Specials

    January 18, 2005

    Letter to the Editor

    Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

  • Film

    November 23, 2004

    Infernal Affairs

    The art of four play: Cruel lies and crueler truths in a tastefully sordid relationship drama

  • Art

    October 5, 2004

    Richard Avedon, 1923–2004

    Who else would have put Genet, Chanel, Beckett, and Fabian within the same covers?

  • Film

    August 3, 2004

    Delicate Balance

    Not gonna take it Anymore: Dern on flawed relationships

  • Film

    March 9, 2004

    Answers to the World's Hardest Movie Quiz

    Not gonna take it Anymore: Dern on flawed relationships

  • Film

    January 20, 2004

    World's Hardest Movie Quiz 2004

    Not gonna take it Anymore: Dern on flawed relationships

  • News

    December 23, 2003

    J. Hoberman's Top Ten

    Not gonna take it Anymore: Dern on flawed relationships

  • News

    November 25, 2003

    Angels in a Changed America

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Columns

    November 11, 2003

    NY Mirror

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Film

    August 12, 2003

    A Fassbinder Masterpiece Gets Close to Cinephile Heaven

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • NYC Life

    March 25, 2003

    Listings

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Columns

    November 12, 2002

    NY Mirror

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Film

    July 23, 2002

    Flesh + Blood

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Theater

    April 9, 2002

    The Choler of Money

    From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

  • Film

    March 5, 2002

    Thinking Inside the Box

    Test-Tube Babies

  • Theater

    August 28, 2001

    I am Not a Camera

    Stage Acting Versus NYC’s Hollywood High

  • Theater

    August 14, 2001

    Gull Talk

    Stage Acting Versus NYC’s Hollywood High

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Theater

    Hot Tickets

  • News

    April 17, 2001

    Striking Distance

    New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

  • Theater

    April 17, 2001

    Theater

    New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

  • Film

    August 8, 2000

    Three Sheets in the Wind

    New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

  • Theater

    April 18, 2000

    Agenda Bending

    New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

  • Film

    March 7, 2000

    Through a Mirror Darkly

    New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

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