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Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV
There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he’s playing. Incompetence has a...
“Megadoc” Shows Francis Ford Coppola Going for Broke on “Megalopolis”
Figgis comments that Coppola uses the script as a mere premise, and he likens Coppola’s approach to it as “instinctive,” calling the director “kind of like a jazz musician.”...
Pause at One Hundred Miles per Hour
Can liminal-space therapy be a thing? I think many Ukrainians need that. Source link
Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes Return with Audacious New Music
The first thing Julio Torres says in “Color Theories” is to deny that he’s made an “Off Broadway play.” (His ponytail, curling overhead like an anglerfish’s light, bobbles as...
The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
In “The History of Sound,” a new romantic drama set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in more ways than you...
The Return of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Masterpiece, “The Brothers Size”
At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama “The Brothers Size,” now at the Shed, one of the play’s three actors pours white sand—or is it salt?—in a...
Mark Hamill’s All-Time Favorite Books by Stephen King
In the past year, the actor Mark Hamill—best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” trilogy—has starred in not one but two adaptations of works by...
Why New Yorkers Yearn for Barneys
On September 8, 1993, the opening night of the brand-new Barneys flagship store on Madison Avenue, the escalators shrieked. The two-hundred-and-sixty-seven-million-dollar palace of consumption was sheathed in pristine French...
One of Chantal Akerman’s Best Films Is in Legal Limbo
Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers...
