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The Ohio State Murders brings Adrienne Kennedy to Broadway Talk about a case of delayed gratification: Despite a checkered career that includes a lifetime Obie Award, a Gold Medal for…
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The Ohio State Murders brings Adrienne Kennedy to Broadway Talk about a case of delayed gratification: Despite a checkered career that includes a lifetime Obie Award, a Gold Medal for…
Playwright/screenwriter Anthony McCarten has written biographical dramatic works of subjects including Winston Churchill (Darkest Hour), Stephen Hawking (The Theory of Everything), Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody) – all of which won…
Babylon...is a lot It would be too easy to call Damien Chazelle’s Babylon a failure of epic proportions. Yes, his fictionalized look at Hollywood traversing the advent of sound is…
Brendan Fraser gives the performance of a lifetime in The Whale Onstage, Samuel D Hunter’s play The Whale was a work of beauty; in Darren Aronofsky’s new film adaptation, a…
Merrily We Roll Along tries to reel in the years, again The famed theatrical disappointment Merrily We Roll Along can’t change it spots, but oh how the new revival at…
Corsage takes a new look at Sisi “Sisi,” they called her – one of the most famous of Austrian royals. But writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s modernist take on Empress Elisabeth, Corsage,…
Some Like It Hot changes with the times, for better worse "Something's crossed over in me and I can't go back,” says Thelma in Callie Khouri’s script of Thelma &…
Rian Johnson’s 2019 detective comedy Knives Out brought new life into a subgenre many thought you could stick a fork in, with a character to really root for and plenty…
Becky Nurse of Salem is a play in constant motion. Playwright Sarah Ruhl has concocted an elixir of comedy, melodrama and a touch of the unreal in her look at…