I had read “Death of a Salesman” the way everyone reads it in school. I had never seen it as a father. That, it turns out, changes everything.
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You can see ‘The Saviors’ and maintain your faith—both in God and the power of theater
Though piercing doubts and discontents surface in “The Saviors,” one never gets the sense that the playwright has an anti-clerical axe to grind.
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Nuns, fashion and Broadway: A theater professor’s unlikely quest to preserve the history of the Sisters of Charity of New York
Professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found elegance and mystery looking at photos of the long black garments while creating costumes for a production at Boise State University.
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‘Death of a Salesman’ is a bold critique of capitalism. It’s as timely as ever.
Arthur Miller may not have been a religious man, but “Death of a Salesman” suggests that he believes in the holiness of human beings.
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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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Jeannie Gaffigan: Why I’m producing a show about sex abuse now
This project is not about creating “scandal.” It is not about attacking Catholics. It is about what happens to human beings when shame and silence get baked into the walls of a community.
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In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare is still obscuring his wife
Is ‘Hamnet’ and art work like it the best we can do for the nameless sisterhood of the past?
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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.