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The playwright who cracked open ‘The Crucible’ with ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’
Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play 'John Proctor Is the Villain' made ...
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Letter: Hate the sin, but not the sinners of Confederate history
Those who hate dead Confederates also hate. Hatred is not a virtue. Surely we should all hate slavery, but we should hate the ...
‘A Poet’ Review: A Pathetic Man of Letters Sets the Stage for a Cringe-Inducing Satire of Prestigious Art Spaces
Simón Mesa Soto’s sophomore feature is a darkly comedic character study that's easy to read as an allegory for arthouse filmmaking.
Book Review: Ocean Vuong takes existentialism to deeply intimate level in 'The Emperor of Gladness'
Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can ...
The New Yorker2d
The Dissonant Howl of “Salome”
Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists3d
How a dark reimagining of ‘Dumbo the Elephant’ shaped the business dealings of an Irish drug lord
Decades before Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most ...
The Business & Financial Times on MSN4d
Poetry Corner: Steal Something, Say Nothing
By Kwesi BISSUE\xa0His was the voice that rose above the suppressive silenceThat vocal cord used to hurtThat voice rang out loudestThat voice shouted itself hoarseThat voice screamed so deafeningThat ...