Search Results: list of Oesper Award winners by year
A generous serving of what theater critic John Lahr calls playwright John Guare’s “funhouse-mirror reflection of American life’s caprice and chaos in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”
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Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
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Read MoreAlive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreThe most unfairly maligned film of the year: Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor.” The most overrated movie of the year, which gave me a mammoth headache: “American Hustle.”
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Reviews of two standout films from the 66th London Film Festival — one of the most dynamic festival programs in recent memory.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?
Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.
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