The Politics of Hate: “Parade” reviewed
There’s a sense of justice being served, however belatedly, in the revival of Parade currently playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (just months after director Michael Arden mounted a…
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There’s a sense of justice being served, however belatedly, in the revival of Parade currently playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (just months after director Michael Arden mounted a…
Thomas Kail’s new production of Sweeney Todd isn’t so much a masterpiece revived as it is recycled. Currently playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Stephen Sondheim and High Wheeler’s baroque tale…
Shrinking isn’t the first sitcom centered on therapists who need healing themselves. It isn’t even the first one to air on Apple TV. Heck, it probably isn’t the only currently…
A horror comedy that caters to the true crime crowd, Swarm (co-created by Atlanta’s Donald Glover and Janine Nabers) is another great showpiece for Danielle Fishback. Fishback is a young…
Two years ago, Your Honor proved to be a huge hit for Showtime. A rock-solid thriller about an esteemed New Orleans judge (Bryan Cranston) desperate to do anything to protect…
If you miss Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam," Cunk on Earth is the show for you. Diane Morgan is Philomena Cunk, a character who originated on on Black Mirror creator…
“The truth is a wobbly thing,” according to Wolf. He is the title character of Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play, but he isn’t the central one. That’s Jeenu, a six-year-old boy…
Nikyatu Jusu’s film Nanny carries a premise full of potential: Aisha (Anna Diop) is a former teacher from Senegal hired as a nanny for the daughter of Amy (Michelle Monaghan)…
The Music Woman: “Shy” reviewed Unfair or not, Mary Rodgers, whose father, Richard Rodgers, helped pioneer the Broadway musical alongside Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, was a nepo baby. But…
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular book Daisy Jones and the Six was a literary blast from the past, a fictional oral history of a drugs-and-sex-fueled rock band from the 1970s that…