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A scene from “Junk” (photo: Lincoln Center Theater)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Three plays invite us to look back on the decade that launched Trump as a time of churning ambivalence and upheaval.
Sam Shepard poses for a portrait in New York, Sept. 2011 (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
While Shepard's plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.
Oscar Isaacs as Hamlet (photo: The Public Theatre)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
In a bewildering new staging at The Public Theater, Oscar Isaac is giving a rich, riveting lead turn as the dubious Danish prince.
Arts & CultureTheater
Margot Patterson
If the Greeks had Antigone, Americans have Dorothy Day.
Daniel Oreskes, Michael Aronov, and Anthony Azizi (foreground) with Daniel Jenkins and Jeb Kreager (background). Photo by T. Charles Erickson
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Like all the best historical narratives, “Oslo” shows the intense fragility and contingency of human affairs
Tina Benko, left, portrays Melania Trump in the role of Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, and Gregg Henry, center left, portrays President Donald Trump in the role of Julius Caesar during a dress rehearsal of The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar in New York. (Joan Marcus/The Public Theater via AP)
Arts & CultureTheater
Leah Libresco
I will be glad to get some sleep when our “Julius Caesar” closes this Saturday, and I can stop living the fevered life of Casca the conspirator.