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‘Through the Yellow Hour’: Apocalypse Again
Ever since 9/11, the American public’s fascination with the possibility of a post-apocalyptic, doomsday scenario in our country has manifested itself time and time again in our artistic output (think Cormac...
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‘Taken 2’: A Forced, Feeble Sequel
Once you’ve saved your child’s life, you’d think that would forever cement your worth as a parent. Still, there are always more bad guys the world over plotting to harm your kid and make you suffer for their...
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‘Einstein on the Beach’: A Fleeting Train of Sound and Movement
What happens when you take an opera, and throw everything conventional about it out of the window? Get rid of the plot. Trade soaring music and lyrics for soothing repetition. Tell the audience that, due to a lack of...
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Finding Magic in the Metropolis
“Los Angeles burns, a dying city, the last embers of life and light on a dark, dead planet. It is here, in the City of Angels, that the last pocket of survivors remain, the final feeble remnants of the once great... -
Killed By Grace
In Craig Wright’s play, Grace, currently premiering on Broadway, “Grace” is not an angry housewife set on mortal revenge. Rather, it’s a message-loaded melodrama of what can happen when two otherwise...
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Junot Diaz: Lost Loves and Found Lives
“I’m not a bad guy… I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.” That’s Yunior speaking, the hardheaded young Dominican-born protagonist of Junot Diaz’s new book of short...
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Artist of the Week 10/3-10/9: Dina Johnsen Uncovers ‘The Unseen Beauty’ of the National Theatre
Russian artist Dina Johnsen has only recently jumped headfirst into the constantly evolving field of photography. Before her plunge into the flash induced world of ballerinas, actors, and opera singers of the National... -
Artist of the Week 10/3-10/9: Alban Grosdidier Drowns And Resuscitates Emotions In His Work
To many, Alban Grosdidier, 22, may seem like the typical college student — a determined goal of getting through school, despite a few setbacks, with a couple of stamps on his passport to match. Archetypally for...
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An Enemy for All Seasons
The line between right and wrong can often be blurred by politics and nowhere more so than in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The play centers on a pair of brothers on different sides of a moral debate. At...
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Connecting the Dots: ‘Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years’
Winding your way through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Warhol wonderland is a bit like trying to make sense of a connect-the-dots drawing. The shape and the subject are there somewhere but where?
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