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A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

A review of John Proctor is the Villain by Melissa Rose Bernardo | April 15, 2025

Lorde’s bouncy breakup song “Green Light” plays a major part in Raelynn and Shelby’s final literature project, an imagined conversation between two Crucible characters that morphs into their own version of a dance in the woods. It’s as kooky, joyful, and unsettling as you might think, and more ecstatic, cleansing, and liberating than you could ever imagine. That’s the scene that will live rent-free in your head.

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Pope/Bettany Elevate ‘The Collaboration’ Into Art Worth Contemplating

Ran Xia | December 20, 2022

One of them paved a path of his own ascending to artistic godhood by glorifying the mundane; the other painted SAMO (meaning the Same Old Sh*t) criticizing the very idea of repetition. One of them broke down the wall between art and business; for the other, walls didn’t mean a thing. One saw beauty, immortality, […]

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Complex Men and Caricatures of Women Are Caught ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’

Bedatri D.Choudhury | December 19, 2022

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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