Blogs
May 2, 2013Her last campaign--something on the order of "She's the greatest actress we have, but she hasn't won in 29 years"--worked wonders on voters' guilt, and Meryl went home with the golden man for The Iron Lady.
Well, the very same idea needs to be trotted out again, but on a slightly smaller scale.
Sh ... More >>
Theater
April 3, 2013Film
April 3, 2013Voice Choices
February 20, 2013Take a dip with Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph
Theater
January 9, 2013Quiara Alegría Hudes's Pulitzer winner gets its New York debut
Columns
December 26, 2012Voice Choices
December 12, 2012Quiara Alegría Hudes’s play comes to Second Stage
Blogs
December 7, 2012Yes, something called Rent Boy...The Musical is apparently really going to happen, unlike Rebecca the Musical.
And I bet a lot of old men in trench coats will line up for tickets.
It's a stage show filled with actors playing singing and dancing escorts, and it'll be heading to NYC in March, where ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 5, 2012Tracy K. Smith reads with Tina Chang
Theater
October 3, 2012A revival of Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer-winning political classic
Voice Choices
September 19, 2012Both Your Houses gets a revival
Theater
September 5, 2012Blogs
August 23, 2012Today, Gawker's John Cook published an explosive article called "The Bain Files: Inside Mitt Romney's Tax-Dodging Cayman Schemes." And in it, Cook says that he's exclusively obtained 950 pages of confidential financial documents that show just how much of a tax-dodging slimy robot of a man the Repub ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 20, 2012Have dinner with Denis Johnson
Blogs
June 6, 2012Ray Bradbury, the Pulitzer Prize-cited sci-fi scribe who penned Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, died Tuesday night at 91.
And he wouldn't have wanted you to blog, Tweet, or Facebook about his death -- just like we're doing right now.
Much like his contemporary Kurt Vonnegut, Bradbury wa ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012Uptown cabarets are generally the places for high-priced, reverent song stylings performed on various well-oiled standards.
Well, at the Cafe Carlyle until May 12, Emily Bergl is infusing that format with some freshness and originality, bringing a little bit of downtown uptown.
She's utterly deli ... More >>
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April 27, 2012You don't need to watch Futurama* to know that in the future, our grotesque output of garbage will come back to haunt us. Or, as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes puts it, "We don't see the consequences of our wastefulness."
Theater
April 18, 2012In the Heights's book writer takes home this year's drama prize for her play Water by the Spoonful
Voice Choices
April 4, 2012Philip Seymour Hoffman comes to Broadway
Columns
March 28, 2012Admiring the attributes of the sixth annual male-escort awards
Blogs
March 15, 2012Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times has done a second column on the Adrian Schoolcraft affair. His column published yesterday details the exchange between Schoolcraft and Deputy Chief Michael Marino right before Marino ordered him taken forcibly to the Jamaica Hosp ... More >>
Theater
February 29, 2012At the Irish Rep, a novice O'Neill shows rare power
Columns
February 22, 2012Blogs
February 6, 2012Are they still?
I'm sure the answer is yes, unless you're Christina Crawford.
But we often convince ourselves that our parents weren't really supportive of us because it's easier to fall into a self-victimizing frame of mind that plays into our I-wasn't-loved-enough-as-a-child shtick.
We lose sig ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2012Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...
For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011Blogs
November 16, 2011
It was inevitable that gay marriage should come to the legit stage, so in this week's column, I talk about the result:
Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, an evening of short works with a rotating cast including Mark Consuelos, who plays a gay whose mother is pressuring him to ge ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011Euripides gets an update from Big Dance Theater
Voice Choices
September 28, 2011A new look at Art Spiegelman’s classic
Voice Choices
September 28, 2011Theater
September 21, 2011Itamar Moses's new play updates some familiar relationship neuroses
Blogs
September 15, 2011The St. Marks Bookshop, a lovely place very near Voice headquarters, surrounded by several other lovely places (and some less lovely) that have changed numerous times since we were college students staying at an NYU dorm for the summer, has managed to hang on -- since 1977, albeit in a few di ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 7, 2011Brooklyn honors its literary community
Columns
August 17, 2011Blogs
July 21, 2011So Cynthia Nixon will be coming back to Broadway this season in a revival of the Pulitzer winning Wit, about a woman sardonically dealing with the depersonalization of cancer treatments.
Well, guess who she could very well be competing with for the Tony?
Blogs
June 20, 2011In today's edition of Press Clips, our daily media column, the seriously unserious comedians at "America's Finest News Source" do the "I get no respect" routine, kicking off a campaign to score journalism's highest prize, while some more traditional reporters obscure their work, perhaps unint ... More >>
Theater
May 11, 2011The Pulitzer winner looks back at race in the movies
Columns
April 27, 2011And we finally stop insulting Guatemalans!
Blogs
April 19, 2011A feisty nun and a fidgety priest battle it out over a teen with sexual problems.
Sound like the Pulitzer wining Doubt?
You wish.
High is more like a standard-issue play, with TV-style melodramatics cozying up to one-liners and some pretty banal religiosity.
("You've got to meet me halfw ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011viaDid you win a Pulitzer Prize today? Us either. If you're from the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald or The Tennessean, you also did not win, even though you were in fact nominated in the category of Breaking News Reporting. That $10,000 prize -- "For a distinguished example ... More >>
Theater
March 30, 2011Plus Derek Jacobi, the Shaggs, and other spring theater picks
Blogs
March 17, 2011​Big news in the world of meta media news today! Details of the long-awaited, vaguely teased New York Times paywall have arrived via a press release from the Paper of Record. It's sort of expensive, compared to free! It's also sort of reasonable, if you feel inclined to support the making of good ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Funny Girl is the classic musical about entertainer Fanny Brice, a show that is never revived because Barbra Streisand was so indelible in the role, you'd have to be an absolute looney tune to even go near it.
And the movie captures her performance for all time, a constant reminder of the p ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Newly revived on Broadway, That Championship Season is Jason Miller's Pulitzer-winning 1972 play about a reunion of Pennsylvania high school basketball team members that ends up being a slam dunk into sourness.
The play doesn't totally hold up, mainly because some of its melodramatic revel ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Want to see two legends--James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave--in the current Broadway revival of the Pulitzer winning Driving Miss Daisy?
I'm giving away three pairs of tickets for the Monday February 7th performance, which is a very special benefit for the all impor ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 5, 2011Daniel Kitson’s hit makes its U.S. premiere
Blogs
December 23, 2010Yes, David Mamet himself drew this cartoon for Tablet Magazine.
David Mamet, of course, is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright who penned such dramas as Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow, but has also written Torah commentary, and a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank in Marietta, G ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010Love blooms in the nurse’s office
Film
December 15, 2010Blogs
November 19, 2010Eric SchneidermanEric Schneiderman will inherit one case from Andrew Cuomo that may come to haunt the new attorney general.
The AG who owes his election to the New York Times will soon take over the case against Steve Rattner, the lifelong friend and financial adviser of Times ow ... More >>
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