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Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York. He writes a blog called The Wicked Stage.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
With "Suffs" and "Paradise Square," Broadway offers two new musicals that address the great animating subject of the American musical: America itself.
Arts & CultureBooks
Rob Weinert-Kendt
In “Camera Man,” the critic Dana Stevens uses the biography of the great silent film clown as a lens to explore the early days of movies, the cultural forces that gave them birth and the social upheavals they in turn engendered.
Daniel Zovatto and Mackenzie Davis in “Station Eleven” (photograph by Ian Watson/HBO Max)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The journey of most of the characters in “Station Eleven” is from self-protective emotional withdrawal to vulnerability and connection.
Brandon Micheal Hall, LaChanze and Chuck Cooper in Roundabout Theatre Company's “Trouble in Mind” (photo: Joan Marcus)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Can Black writers flourish in a marketplace dictated by white tastes?
Ariana DeBose and David Alvarez star in a scene from the movie ‘West Side Story.’ (CNS photo/Niko Tavernise, 20th Century Studios)
Arts & CultureFilm
Rob Weinert-Kendt
What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.
Arts & CultureFilm
Rob Weinert-Kendt
“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.
Kate Winselt in ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Sarah Lancashire in ‘Happy Valley’ and Olivia Coleman and David Tennant in ‘Broadchurch’ (photos: HBO/BBC/ITV)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
These shows shine an intimate, even glaring light on humanity in its less flattering manifestations.
Murray Bartlett, Jolene Purdy, Natasha Rothwell, Lukas Gage in ‘The White Lotus’ (photograph by Mario Perez/HBO)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The show’s true subject is nothing less than spiritual sickness, fueled by the existential dread of folks with no material wants who nevertheless don’t know what to do with their lives or how to spend them happily with each other.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Transcendent, communal moments like these, so long denied us by this still raging pandemic, have been worth the wait, and they are more than worth the trouble.
Cora (Thuso Mbedu) in ‘Underground Railroad’ (photo: Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios) 
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The series executes a breathtaking high-wire act, threading speculative fiction a history most of us still do not know well enough.