
Strangers on a Train: “The Coast Starlight” Reviewed
The characters in Michael Bunin’s The Coast Starlight, now running at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater following a premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse), have gotten a ticket…
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The characters in Michael Bunin’s The Coast Starlight, now running at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater following a premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse), have gotten a ticket…
Shows don’t get more unique or brazen than Misty, Arinzé Kene's sort of-solo show, currently taking a bow at the West Side’s The Shed after a celebrated West End run.…
Acts of deceptions are all around in Emily Feldman’s middling The Best We Could, an Our Town-inspired glance at a family in transition. Notice that I did not say “examination,”…
In M3gan, a variation on the Victor Frankenstein story updated by Akela Cooper (Malignant) and James Wan (the Insidious and Saw franchises, and perhaps any other contemporary movie involving sharp…
A search for order, a desire to connect, a job that can make ends meet without first grabbing your soul – are these things too much to ask? Those were…
Between his entry in the Star Wars saga and a current Oscar nomination for Glass Onion, the second installment in his self-created Knives Out universe, writer-director Rian Johnson’s film currency…
The relationship between teacher and student in Letters from Max, a ritual, receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre Company, starts off sweet and ends bittersweet. But there is…
Where did Thomas Bradshaw go? I don’t mean literally; I’m aware that he’s still around on the planet, and that he currently serves as a department chair at Northwestern University’s…
To Be Young, Gifted and Black was the title of both a play and later an autobiography, posthumously performed and published following the death of Lorraine Hansberry, at the age…
Irish Repertory Theatre has once more revived Endgame, Samuel Beckett's confounding work about the end of...something. At the center of Ciaran O'Reilly's production is the blind, chair-ridden Hamm (John Douglas…