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‘Stranger Things’ star Sadie Sink leads likable, long MeToo drama

A review of John Proctor is the Villain by Johnny Oleksinski | April 15, 2025

And as events unfold that could break a small town apart and almost certainly make national news, the characters stick to a sit-com style. That’s the play that Belflower wanted to write, and there’s something to be said about humor and lightness keeping the audience invested. I enjoyed myself. But while “John Proctor” is a good time, it is not a powerful one.

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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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