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Let It Be: The (Un)Fab Four - A sanitized Beatles tribute could use "Help!"
Let It Be, a new concert-style "celebration" of the Beatles and their ubiquitous music--which you would hardly think needs more celebrating--is basically a living greatest-hits album, an ambulatory boxed set, only performed by a bunch of ringers. (T...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 31, 2013
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Q&A;: Queens Native Bushra Rehman On Her Debut Novel and Growing Up Pakistani Muslim in Queens
Bushra Rehman's first novel, Corona, is a fragmented, poetic, on-the-road adventure told from the perspective of the charismatic Razia Mirza. After coming of age in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni Masjid built in New York City, ...
by Heather Baysa on July 31, 2013
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The Designated Mourner: Wallace Shawn's Rites and Wrongs
Wallace Shawn is a dangerous man. If he confronted you in some darkened alley you might feel more inclined to giggle than cower, but don't let that roly-poly exterior and slight lisp catch you off guard. His plays describe the seductive power of bad...
by Alexis Soloski on July 24, 2013
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Second Stage Plays the Dating Game With Nobody Loves You
Nobody Loves You, the musical comedy now running at Second Stage, is the theatrical equivalent of the watermelon martini: jokey, overly sweet, sneakily refreshing. Written by brainiac playwright Itamar Moses and composer Gaby Alter, it concerns Jeff...
by Alexis Soloski on July 24, 2013
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The Island of Doctor Moreau Gets a Butoh-Inspired Adaptation
Back when evolution was a scary new idea--unlike now, when in certain circles it's a scary old idea--H.G. Wells wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau, about a scientist's misguided efforts to fast-track assorted critters up the biological ladder to huma...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 24, 2013
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Outrageousness: Now Too Big to Fail - Shock and duh.
There's nothing more stubbornly middle-of-the-road than shock art. Like inflexible suburban Baptists and food co-op rules committees, purveyors of this trying trend insist on viewing reality in stark black and white. Such a worldview mistakenly inve...
by Christian Viveros-Fauné on July 24, 2013
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Storyville: A Jazzy Musical Struggles to Find Its Rhythm
Storyville is a portrait of the New Orleans red light district sometimes credited as the birthplace of jazz, in the days before the federal government closed it by force in 1917. Boasting a book by acclaimed playwright Ed Bullins, with music and ly...
by Joseph Cermatori on July 24, 2013
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Llyn Foulkes' Art Is a Visionary Spectacle
Outsider art is the new blue-chip art. Or so various New York insiders would have you believe. From this summer's Venice Biennial (curated by the New Museum's Director of Exhibitions Massimiliano Gioni) to yards of boosterish column inches in the no...
by Christian Viveros-Faune on July 17, 2013
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Hearts and Mines: Love Is a Supertitled Battlefield at the Lincoln Center Festival
Amid the scorch and swelter of July, the Lincoln Center Festival offers two plays devoted to desires chill and cruel. In Complicite's Shun-kin, based on the writings of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, and Thtre de l'Atelier's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, adapte...
by Alexis Soloski on July 17, 2013
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The Castle's Rotten 12th-Century Power Struggle Looks Like Our Own
A lusty battalion of men comes home from the Crusades, only to fight a tougher war--a battle of the sexes. After all, it's the fictitious 12th century in this hallucination of not-so-merry Olde England. Women are claiming new roles in defiance of th...
by Tom Sellar on July 17, 2013
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In I Wear the Black Hat, Chuck Klosterman is as Calculating and Sharp as Ever
In an essay from his 2009 collection, Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman reasons that because most television laugh tracks are stock recordings, many of which were made decades ago, when we watch our favorite sitcoms, we can be "100 percent confi...
by Heather Baysa on July 10, 2013
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Go Time-Traveling at the Ice Factory Festival
This year's Ice Factory festival of six new works transforms the New Ohio into a hot-weather time machine (never fear, the AC is cool). The time-warping began at the end of June with That Poor Dream, the Assembly's update of Dickens's Great Expectat...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 10, 2013
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Radiant Blobs: Ken Price's Carnal Clay
The brilliant ceramicist Ken Price was born in West Hollywood in 1935 and died last year in Taos, New Mexico. Too late (but not with too little), the Met is hosting his first New York museum retrospective. There are many theories as to why our basti...
by R. C. Baker on July 10, 2013
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Damon Albarn Deploys Gorillaz Tactics in Monkey: Journey to the West
Recently, the Lincoln Center Festival sent factions of publicists to Flushing malls and indie comedy venues, attempting to draw both Chinese-Americans and hipsters to Monkey: Journey to the West. They have met with much success, both with these demo...
by Alexis Soloski on July 10, 2013
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Game Play: Celebrating Video Games Onstage
Game Play, the festival that runs through the end of the month at the Brick Theater, is billed as "a celebration of video game performance art." The plays and events explore the relationship between technology and its users and between players and t...
by Linda Leseman on July 10, 2013
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She-Hulk and X-Man Chick Lit Novels Are Better Than Superhero Movies
Superheroes are bigger than comic books, so now they're in movies--all movies, it seems, forever, no matter what. But in another sense they're bigger than movies, too. Over decades of serial storytelling, their histories have swelled, their key trai...
by Alan Scherstuhl on July 3, 2013
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Grisaille Vaginas and Saturated Sunsets - In the Pink
Ah, summertime, when a gallery-goer's fancy turns to . . . group shows. "Sunsets and Pussy" (Marianne Boesky Gallery) focuses on two time-honored summer pastimes, envisioned by four artists from three generations. The youngest, Lucien Smith (b. 1...
by R. C. Baker on July 3, 2013
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A Singing Group Strives for Harmony in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy
We sing to celebrate, we sing to mourn. We sing for comfort, for grace, to set ourselves apart and to merge with others. These myriad uses of music all inform Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney's lyrical new play at Manhattan Theatre Club, which is at...
by Alexis Soloski on July 3, 2013
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An Ex-Con Learns You Can't Go Home Again in The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin (Roundabout Theatre Company) is not, as the title suggests, a clever Irish play, but a flatly earnest American one. Competent and occasionally provocative, the drama could serve as playwright Steven Levens...
by James Hannaham on July 3, 2013
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Q&A;: Susan Choi Talks My Education and Getting a Little Help From Her Friends Jennifer Egan and Jhumpa Lahiri
Susan Choi's fourth novel, My Education, is an erotic, sharply written tale of a young graduate student, Regina Gottlieb, who finds herself drawn to the devilishly handsome Professor Nicholas Brodeur, a man notorious on campus for seducing his stude...
by Angela Ashman on July 3, 2013
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Bill Thrill: Julie Taymor Dazzles you into Shakespeare’s Web
If department stores announce a shortage of luxury bed linens, blame Julie Taymor. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, now playing at Theatre for a New Audience's sleek and intimate space,… More >>
Erection Season: For Domesticated Playwright Bruce Norris, the Political Is Personal
It's not about the sex, we say each time a political scandal erupts. It's not about the blowjobs, the penis pictures, the hookers. It's about the hypocrisy, the stupidity, the… More >>
What're You Lookin' At?
Christopher Wool had the good fortune to begin painting at a time when painting was dead. Again. In the mid-1970s, Wool had a studio at the butt-end of the Bowery. During… More >>
After Midnight Lets It All Hang Out
Everything about After Midnight, the nightclub floor show transplanted from City Center's Encores series that's passing itself off as a musical, is appealing, especially the work of designers John Lee… More >>
House of Dance Shuffle-Hop-Steps Through Small-Town Dystopia
Lee has one day to prepare for the Teen Tap Road Show, but things aren't going well at Martle's House of Dance. Her stepfamily keeps texting they need the car,… More >>
The Atrocity Exhibition
When one reads in the Bible that Joshua burned the city of Ai "and made it a heap forever" and "the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until… More >>
Dramas of Sex and Excess from Harold Pinter and Wallace Shawn
Who would run around on Daniel Craig? Those muscular shoulders, those wintry eyes, that blond mane — is this a man to cuckold? Apparently. Craig has elected to play Robert, the… More >>
The Snow Geese Dwells on Weary Domestic Ruptures
The Gaesling family is besieged. It's 1917. Father has recently died, and the Great War in Europe has called elder son Duncan (Evan Jonigkeit) from Princeton's supper clubs to the… More >>
Q&A;: Martin Amis on Polanski's Macbeth
In this week's film section, Calum Marsh interviews author Martin Amis, who has moved from his native Great Britain to New York. On November 4, Amis presents a screening of… More >>
Darkness and Disappointment Lurk Beneath The Landing's All's-Well Veneer
There are at least two ways to see The Landing. You can go into the theater like the terribly boring adult that you probably are, sit down and turn off… More >>
