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Monday, June 18, 2018

Aunt Lydia's Garden Karma by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman on the in-demand character actress Ann Dowd, and her adventures with cattle prods, nuns, and hoarders.

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Monday, June 11, 2018

The 2018 Tony Awards: Springsteen, Meet SpongeBob by Michael Schulman

Michael Shulman reviews the 2018 Tony Awards, which he writes did not stint on weird juxtapositions, tuneful numbers, or memorable speeches.

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Friday, June 1, 2018

Review: The Tender Biographies of "House of Nutter" by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman reviews "House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row," a new book by Lance Richardson about the brothers Tommy and David Nutter.

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Monday, May 28, 2018

The N.Y.P.D. Police Band Takes the Stage by Michael Schulman

At a performance of "The Band's Visit," on Broadway, New York's police band jammed with the show's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra.

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

How Interview Magazine Uplifted and Reshaped Celebrity Culture by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about the folding of Interview Magazine, which was created in 1969 by the artist Andy Warhol.

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Friday, May 18, 2018

Kathleen Turner Finds Her Voice at Café Carlyle by Michael Schulman

Telling stories punctuated by standards, Turner recalls falling in love with the theatre.

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Monday, May 14, 2018

Carol Burnett Gets Woke by Michael Schulman

Now that the kids who grew up on "The Carol Burnett Show" are middle-aged, the actress is finding new fans on Netflix, Michael Schulman writes.

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Friday, May 11, 2018

Summer Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

"Pretty Woman" comes to Broadway, Armie Hammer stars in "Straight White Men," and Chukwudi Iwuji plays Othello in Central Park.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The 2018 Tony Nominations: "Mean Girls," "Harry Potter," and Singing SpongeBob by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about the 2018 Tony Award nominees, including "Mean Girls," "Three Tall Women," "The Iceman Cometh," "SpongeBob SquarePants," and others.

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Monday, April 30, 2018

Grace Jones, Donna Summer, and the Power of Disco by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman reviews two new projects about Grace Jones and Donna Summer"the bio-musical "Summer," and the documentary "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami."

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Friday, April 27, 2018

Finding America's Present in England's Revolutionary Past by Michael Schulman

In Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," the director Rachel Chavkin sees a play for the resistance.

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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" Is Now a Fetch Broadway Musical by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about Tina Fey's "Mean Girls," now a musical on Broadway.

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Monday, April 2, 2018

A Duet with Two Generations of "Carousel" Ballerinas by Michael Schulman

Bambi Linn, ninety-two, and Brittany Pollack, twenty-nine, discuss dancing the same role on Broadway, seventy-three years apart. Michael Schulman writes.

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Monday, March 19, 2018

"Angels in America" Rises Again by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about Marianne Elliott as she wrestles with a notoriously difficult play, and with Tony Kushner.

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Friday, March 16, 2018

A Deaf Romance on Broadway in "Children of a Lesser God" by Michael Schulman

A revival of Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning play comes to Studio 54.

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Monday, March 5, 2018

Frances McDormand Makes the Oscars Weird Again by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar, and her speech demanding that more women tell their stories in the movies.

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Friday, March 2, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018

The Spring Awakening of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Theatre Kids by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman on how the Tony Award-winning rock musical "Spring Awakening" relates to the experience of the student survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Jake Shears, of Scissor Sisters, Stages His Own Comeback by Michael Schulman

After years of self-imposed exile, the glam rocker returns to the limelight on Broadway, and with a new memoir chronicling a saucy slice of downtown New York.

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Monday, February 5, 2018

Road Trip with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren by Michael Schulman

In "The Leisure Seeker," they play a couple on a Winnebago odyssey. In New York, they did a morning-show blitz. Michael Schulman writes.

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Monday, January 29, 2018

Malcolm X's Daughters Take to the Runway by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman on the six sisters' fashion line, which rebrands their father's message for the pussy-hat era.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Is the Era of #OscarsSoWhite Over? by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman on the diversity of the 2018 Academy Award nominations and whether the Academy has moved past its #OscarsSoWhite controversy from years past.

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Monday, January 22, 2018

Harvesting Farmers  by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about GrowNYC, which teaches students"largely from immigrant populations"how to make a living in agriculture. 

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Friday, January 12, 2018

Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama by Michael Schulman

He acts, he sings, he dances. And in his latest role, the 30-year-old, who shot to fame with "Glee," is the serial killer who murdered Gianni Versace.

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Monday, January 8, 2018

The 2018 Golden Globes: Oprah Leads a Decisive Feminist Takeover by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about Oprah Winfrey and the women of the 2018 Golden Globe ceremony.

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Monday, December 25, 2017

Why Beanie Feldstein Loves Playing the Sidekick by Michael Schulman

At a vegan cooking class, "the Bean," who's co-starring in "Lady Bird" and in Broadway's "Hello, Dolly!," talks theatre camp and her big brother Jonah Hill.

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Friday, December 15, 2017

The State of the 2018 Oscar Race by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes about the odds for films such as "Call Me by Your Name," "The Shape of Water," "The Post," and more in advance of Oscar season.

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Friday, December 8, 2017

The Inspired Nonsense of the "SpongeBob SquarePants" Musical by Michael Schulman

An all-star roster of artists"including John Legend and Cyndi Lauper"supplied original songs for this new Broadway extravaganza, set in Bikini Bottom.

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Monday, December 4, 2017

Shin Guards and Tampon Talk at Lincoln Center by Michael Schulman

Sarah DeLappe's "The Wolves" takes teen-age girl talk to a soccer field at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.

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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Uma Thurman Débuts on Broadway in Beau Willimon's "The Parisian Woman" by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman reviews Beau Willimon's "The Parisian Woman," starring Uma Thurman in her Broadway début.

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Monday, November 27, 2017

Martin McDonagh Plays Pool and Talks Movies by Michael Schulman

The filmmaker and playwright explains what billiards has in common with "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

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