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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‘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 ‘Ragtime,’ the idea of a just, multiracial America is tragically incomplete
A new revival of ‘Ragtime’ plays like a dead-serious fable.
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Why ‘Waiting for Godot’ is worth reviving—with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
This “Godot” is more brisk and playful than most, with one irresistible (if inadvisable) “Bill & Ted” reference.
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‘Saturday Church’ and ‘The Brothers Size’: Stories of Black queer spirituality
For queer Christians of any race, the church has too often felt not like a loving home but rather a house of judgment.
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‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park is Shakespeare as we like it
The beloved Delacorte Theatre in Central Park has reopened as a sleeker, more comfy, more accessible version of itself. You could apply each of those adjectives to the show onstage as well.
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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ gives us a ‘Crucible’ for a post-#MeToo world
We may be used to #MeToo stories at this point, but Kimberly Belflower brings a new twist to a classic tale with ‘John Proctor Is the Villain.’
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‘Unreconciled’: A clergy sex abuse survivor’s attempt to find healing through theater
”Unreconciled” looks abuse, disregard and callousness in the eye and witnesses instead to radical kindness.
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Men behaving badly (on Broadway): Starry new productions of ‘Othello’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
In Broadway revivals of ‘Othello’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ the spectacle of self-defeating male competition and betrayal is the main draw.