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June 23, 2022
A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile
Mona Mansour’s The Vagrant Trilogy is the Public Theater’s first full-length, main-stage production to address the aftermath of the Nakba.
Alisa Solomon
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May 5, 2022
Strippers Seize the Moment, Turning a Lockout Into a Picket Line
How many assaults, rapes, and shootings will it take for these performers to be afforded even the basic protections a union could provide?
Antonia Crane
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February 22, 2022
The Infinite Possibilities of “Macbeth”
Sparse and beautiful, Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation focuses on why we continue to return to this story of power and downfall.
Erin Schwartz
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January 26, 2022
The Story of Capitalism in One Family
The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America
Alisa Solomon
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December 13, 2021
The Making of Tom Stoppard
How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.
Hannah Gold
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December 1, 2021
Stephen Sondheim’s Art
Despite beginning his career at the end of musical theater’s golden age, Sondheim helped bring the form to its artistic zenith.
Shuja Haider
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November 30, 2021
Judy Collins Remembers Stephen Sondheim
The singer and activist writes about discovering the “amazing, creative, thunderous force” of Sondheim’s music.
Judy Collins
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November 3, 2021
Why Mike Nichols Was the Egalitarian Auteur
Mark Harris’s biography of the filmmaker shows that one cannot be an auteur without some help.
Lindsay Zoladz
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May 6, 2021
How Theater Can Help Us Survive
The saga of Chilean director and playwright Oscar Castro is a vivid example of how art can help us endure—and thrive.
Ariel Dorfman
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April 20, 2021