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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.
Laurie Davidson as William Shakespeare in "Will" (photo: TNT)
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.
Gregg Mozgala and Jolly Abraham. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Gregg Mozgala
Well crafted stories about the “disabled experience” are still new, and too few-and-far between.