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A brutalist ‘Sunset Boulevard’ sets Broadway ablaze

A review of Sunset Boulevard by Brittani Samuel | October 20, 2024

It’s rare for my praise of a show to feel more like a prescription for all to go see it, but I needed this “Sunset Boulevard.” I needed this lion of a woman roaring about how much she believes in herself and her place in the world even when no one else does. In Lloyd’s defining production, that roar is loud and clear. Do not miss your chance to hear it.

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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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