Dale Greenfield
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dale Greenfield
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Culture
‘Ready Steady Yeti Go’: Faulty maps through the fraught landscape of race
June 11, 2019"Contrary to what they'd have us believe, authority figures don't know everything. And don't necessarily have our best interests at heart.”
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‘Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations’ thrills L.A.
September 7, 2018The indisputable talent of both the actual Temptations and the performers in Ain't Too Proud is indescribably exhilarating.
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‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
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Culture
“Get Me Roger Stone”: Documentary on GOP mastermind of dirty tricks
December 5, 2017If you don’t see this film, you have no idea what we’ve been up against, and that’s without even mentioning the Koch Brothers!
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“Plasticity”: Slow work of the brain, an actor’s quick-change triumph
February 10, 2017This is a theatrical experience well worth seeking out. It breaks new ground as a tour de force.
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Culture
“The Handmaiden”: Stunning erotic crime thriller in Japanese-occupied Korea
October 21, 2016In a mesmerizing 145 minutes, the director opens up a toolkit full of sharp contrasts and opposites.
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“The Tragedy of JFK”: Lost play by Shakespeare?
October 4, 2016“One day I was reading Shakespeare, and I saw it: the connections that directly paralleled those of the JFK story."
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New film documents the class divide in NYC’s Chelsea
September 20, 2016In a new film, the timeless system of pitting "us" against the "others" is displayed in the story of gentrification of New York City's West Chelsea neighborhood.
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