Chadwick Boseman also appears in his final performance before his untimely death.
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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Yes, Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is worth the hype
Chess isn’t just a game, it’s also a handy metaphor—for braininess, for power, for geopolitical strategy.
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‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: Ethan Hawke’s John Brown is a (heavily armed) holy fool
‘The Good Lord Bird’ runs straight to the heart of America’s most toxic contradictions.
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Madison Cunningham grew up playing in a church band. Now she’s playing Americana masterpieces.
The singer-songwriter is light years away from the praise music she grew up playing with her dad.
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Fiona Apple’s ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’ is the album we need to survive quarantine
Apple’s new album feels like a sustained performance, dense with emotion and observation.
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Review: ‘Better Call Saul’ arrives at the precipice of ‘Breaking Bad’
For a few remarkable seasons, AMC’s “Better Call Saul” seemed not only as good as its predecessor, but in some ways arguably better.
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What if Americans turned to fascism in the 1940s? HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’ offers an answer.
Reality may have caught up to Philip Roth’s imagination.
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‘Dana H.’: She was abducted, but she did not lose her faith.
Dana Higginbotham is the subject of an extraordinary new play by her son, Lucas Hnath.
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Review: Broadway’s new ‘West Side Story’ is at war with itself
The show’s extreme makeover casts something of a spell but it comes off more and more like a self-serious period piece with some kicking tunes.
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Jane Austen gets a makeover in ‘Sanditon’
Series creator Andrew Davies has made explicit much of what is implicit in English novels of the period, including matters of sex and race.