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Thursday, November 27, 2025

The Interested Bystander’s Oscar Predictions: November 2025

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Nouvelle Vague (c) Netflix Before the critics’ groups start handing out their awards in December, here are some unbiased thoughts on who mi...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Film Review: Get Thee to the Cinema for “Hamnet” as well as Other Films For Friendsgiving Weekend: “Wicked: For Good,” “Jay Kelly,” “Eternity” and “Sauna”

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Hamnet (c) Focus Features Film: Hamnet  In Cinemas  Even since Hamnet premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, Oscar buzz has f...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Theater Reviews: The 5-hour “Initiative” at the Public Theater Is Laudable and Ambitious, and We Must Thank Broadway’s “Chess” for the Music

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Initiative (c) Joan Marcus Theater: Initiative  At the Public Theater  Coastal Podunk, California is the title of a novel being written by ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Theater Reviews: Three Visionary Productions Create Unique Worlds in the Thorton Wilder of “The Seat of Our Pants,” The Gay Variation of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and the Disillusioned Commune of Ex-Pats in “The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire”

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The Seat of Our Pants (c) Joan Marcus Theater: The Seat of Our Pants  At the Public Theater  I have always had a love-hate relationship wit...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Theater Reviews: Reunions Abound With the Amusing Musical Adaptation of “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” a Charming Two One-Act Musicals Called “Reunions” and the Immigrant Women of the Gripping “Queens” Who Dream of Family Reunions

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Queens (c) Valerie Tarranova Theater: Queens  At Manhattan Theater Club  Martyna Majok’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize winning Cost of Li...