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August 10, 2017

In 1972, having campaigned on a platform of firing his high school’s top administrators, Michael Moore won a seat on the Davison, Mich., school board. (The assistant principal, he says, whacked his bottom with a two-by-four as punishment for not tucking in his shirt.) At 18, Mr. Moore became the youngest elected official in the country.

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August 10, 2017

It can’t be denied that Michael Moore is preaching to the choir by presenting his new one-man show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” on Broadway. After all, are those who disagree with his political views really going to pay good money for tickets?

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Newsday
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Barbara
Schuler

August 10, 2017

Michael Moore’s agenda was never in question. When the Oscar-winning documentarian announced his show in May, a sign next to him asked, “Can a Broadway show bring down a sitting President?” In the run-up to opening night, he was everywhere — Facebook, Twitter, “Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Morning Joe.” By the time “The Terms of My Surrender” opened at the Belasco Theatre on Thursday night, you had to wonder if you’d already heard it all.

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La Times
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Charles
McNulty

August 10, 2017

Michael Moore looked like a fish out of water — or was it a deer in headlights? — at a preview of his Broadway show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” which had its official opening at the Belasco Theatre on Thursday.

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The Guardian
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Jake
Nevins

August 10, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of theater-goers will flock to Broadway this year to escape the reality of Donald Trump’s presidency and its never-ending onslaught of foibles, fabrications and faux pas. That is, after all, what live theater is for: a temporary respite from our neuroses, a chance to be suspended, in fiction, in real time.

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