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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Battle Dominates Early Film Awards

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Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another , Best Picture winner for the NYFCC, NBR and Gotham Awards. Film award season is upon us and O...
Monday, December 1, 2025

B'way Update: Death of a Salesman

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Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and  Christopher Abbott with star in Death of a Salesman next spring. Willy Loman is returning to Broadway. The...

Off-B'way Review: The Seat of Our Pants

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Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond in The Seat of Our Pants. Credit: Joan Marcus At this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, a young relative expres...
Friday, November 28, 2025

B'way/Off-B'way Review: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Gruesome Playground Injuries

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Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). Credit: Matthew Murphy A pair of two-character shows with di...

Book Review: Crampton Hodnet

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(Downloaded on my Kindle for $6): A few years ago, I read almost all of Barbara Pym's novels and they were like a long cozy tea-time. Cr...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

B'way/Off-B'way Review: Chess; Practice

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Aaron Tveit (c.) and cast in Chess . Credit: Matthew Murphy The big question is does the first Broadway revival of Chess solve the cult mus...

Book Review: It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

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(Read on the Libby App on my phone): Bruce Vilanch's Riotously funny account of the craziest projects he's ever worked does not just...
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