arts and entertainment
‘Bones and All’ review: Morbidly beautiful exploration of alienation, identity, and love
November 22, 2022Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s a film that centers around cannibalism.
Read moreSocial realist TV: Escaping the corporate streaming bubble
November 15, 2022Each of these series in its own way counters both the big budget “metaverses” of the corporate streamers and the flashy and insincere casting of other series.
Read more‘Radio Golf’: August Wilson’s final statement on race and class in America
October 28, 2022“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater,” wrote John Lahr in The New Yorker.
Read more‘According to the Chorus’: A slice of working life on Broadway’s backstage
October 27, 2022There were a few glitches in it—stockings with tears, a black eye on one of the dancers, a badly sprained foot, a romantic breakup or two…. But these were all part of the show.
Read more‘The Atheist Mother’ fictionalizes the story of militant freethinker Madelyn Murray O’Hair
October 20, 2022Playwright Willard Manus takes on the famous case of Murray v. Curlett, which challenged the policy of mandatory prayers and Bible reading in Baltimore public schools.
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