“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then asks …
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They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIIt was the late 1990s, and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin saw a woman crying backstage at a concert hall in Michigan. Dworkin was there helping to run a …
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Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love …
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIAmong the thousands of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection is the 1980 Nan Goldin photograph titled “Heart-Shaped Bruise, NYC …
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There’s a brief, flawlessly calibrated scene early in “Nanny” when the title character first sees the room where she is to sleep. Recently …
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The news that Tim Burton would be directing half the episodes of “Wednesday,” Netflix’s new dramedy about the Addams Family’s death-obsessed …
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Stepping Out of Her Family’s Shadow, and Laying Bare Family History
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIRYE, England — A couple of years ago, the theater director Irina Brook became obsessed with shadows. She kept photographing her own, and filmed …
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‘The Patient Gloria’ Review: A Theatrical Remedy for Toxic Therapy
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALII demand justice for Gloria. That is Gloria Szymanski, a 30-year-old divorced mother who in the 1960s agreed to be filmed during therapy sessions …
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‘99 Homes’ (2015) Stream it on Hulu. The acclaimed writer and director Ramin Bahrani’s early independent films (“Man Push Cart,” “Chop Shop …
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The visual artist Ebony G. Patterson is creating a new site-specific installation for the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, the garden …