The musical and personal lives of Bob Dylan and the Beatles were intertwined in myriad ways, as author Jim Windolf teases out in his pleasurable new book, ‘Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World.’
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York.
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In Netflix’s ‘Beef,’ we can’t stop watching unsympathetic jerks
The baseline rule of storytelling is that we are interested in what happens; sympathy may arise but is not required.
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‘Dog Day Afternoon’: Stephen Adly Guirgis revisits the iconic 1975 film
A single-set hostage drama needs to feel like a pressure cooker, but this “Dog Day Afternoon” has a comedic, almost casual tone throughout.
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Separating the art from the artist? Broadway’s ‘Giant’ wrestles with Roald Dahl’s antisemitism
The tragedy of Dahl’s antisemitism isn’t that it colored his art but that it clouded his vision and tainted his outrage.
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In ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ Daniel Radcliffe embraces the sacramentality of small pleasures
On the list of things that make my life worth living, I can now gladly add the experience of seeing “Every Brilliant Thing.”
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‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ can’t match the high-wire comedy of ‘Derry Girls’
“How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” Lisa McGee’s new series for Netflix, is a wobbly, unsuccessful blend of comedy, mystery and would-be thriller.
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‘Pluribus’ asks big questions about human freedom. It’s must-think TV.
‘Pluribus’ asks: Would we be willing to give up the struggles of the human condition for life in a friction-free bubble of contentment?
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‘Liberation’ on Broadway jokes its way into hard truths about feminism
“Liberation” is, really, a play of ideas and argument, in the tradition of George Bernard Shaw or Tony Kushner.
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In ‘Blue Moon,’ Ethan Hawke surprises as a melancholy Broadway legend
The new movie “Blue Moon,” named for one of Rodgers & Hart’s most enduring tunes, is set at the pivot between these two eras—from Jazz Age sass and Depression-era gloom to post-World War II patriotism and conformity.
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In ‘Ragtime,’ the idea of a just, multiracial America is tragically incomplete
A new revival of ‘Ragtime’ plays like a dead-serious fable.