‘The Collaboration’ Broadway Review: Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope Are Warhol and Basquiat in Name Only
If only the Tonys gave out such an award, Dick and Robinson would deserve it, because just about the only thing that Anthony McCarten’s new play gets right are the wigs worn by the characters he has named Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Walter “Pops” Washington, as he self-describes in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, is “a flesh and blood, pee standing up, registered Republican.” He is also a litigious former cop caught within the crossroads of bureaucracy, racism, life as a widower, and a fast-gentrifying Riverside Drive. He also happens to be Black. […]
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Slickly, Albeit Slowly, ‘Some Like It Hot’, Dances Towards Thoughtful Representation Onstage
If there was an altar to American desirability and mystique, very few people would hold as much space in it as Marilyn Monroe. We feel possessive about her legacy, in a way that drives us to collectively defend her when a TV show fetishizes her life’s traumas. Monroe, in many different ways, signifies America and […]
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