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Television Review: “Hacks” — Even Funnier on Tour

May 10, 2022
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It is not unusual for most series to hit a sophomore slump, but Hacks manages to avoid this fate, partly because of how deftly it expands on its original premise.

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Theater Review: “Sabina” — The Compelling Force of a Female Mind

May 9, 2022
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The musical’s book, lyrics, and score are strong enough to warrant productions elsewhere.

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Book Review: The Fascinating Story of “The Method”

May 8, 2022
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Isaac Butler’s stories about The Method’s effect on American film acting are insightful, particularly when he recounts how actors could be either inspired or angered when they embraced it.

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Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years

May 7, 2022
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This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.

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Jazz Album Review: Manel Fortià Trio’s “Despertar” — Intelligently Lyrical

May 7, 2022
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Manel Fortià’s album of his Spanish-tinged compositions is meant to wake us up to what the bassist can do.

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Book Review: Thomas Mann in America

May 5, 2022
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In the US, Thomas Mann tacitly proposed himself as an almost messianic figure, stately, dramatic, and wrathful at once, striding forth to represent German culture in exile and, increasingly, free Germany itself.

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Television Review: “WeCrashed” — A Not-So-Funny Dark Comedy About Capitalism Run Aground

May 5, 2022
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The show never grapples with the casualties of corporate crashes because it would mean critiquing a system that is making a lot of people at the top rich (looking at you, Apple).

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Theater Review: “Ain’t Misbehavin’” — The Joint is Really Jumpin’

May 4, 2022
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This sizzling production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ is one of those one-of-a kind of experiences that we all long for in the theater.

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Book Review: “Nobody Gets Out Alive” — A Big, Brash Book of Alaskan Stories

May 4, 2022
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You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism

May 3, 2022
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While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.

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