Ryan J. Haddad returns to the family backyard in "Good Time Charlie," honoring the queer mentors who made him a…
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‘Kramer/Fauci’ proves the best friendships are forged in fury
In "Kramer/Fauci," Daniel Fish transforms a C-SPAN segment into surreal agitprop that proves fury and friendship aren't mutually exclusive.
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What would you do with a few months left? Nick Blaemire’s ‘Soon’ has a theory
Charlie is obsessing over the end of the world. Or maybe just her world. It’s hard to tell in Nick…
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Meet Anita Franco, the LatinX rapper formerly known as Anne Frank
'Slam Frank' recasts Anne Frank as Latinx rapper Anita Franco, and the Orpheum's content warning reads simply: everything.
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5 IVF cycles become a modern folktale in Mfoniso Udofia’s ‘creation stories’
Mfoniso Udofia's 'creation stories' tallies what IVF costs a body, a bank account and a spirit in a powerhouse turn…
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Love looks like a threat to the self-declared unlovable of ‘Degenerates’
“Get out of my discord shit-stain,” says Miller, a 28-year-old White incel infuriated that one of his group members has…
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The world has a group chat about America, and Sarah Jones brings the whole family to respond
"America, Who Hurt You?" Sarah Jones answers with a country's worth of relatives, a therapeutic intervention and a hand on…
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‘Pre-Existing Condition’ turns one woman’s story into a portrait of a complicit culture
'Pre-Existing Condition' asks how our culture deals with domestic violence—and keeps its own survivor just out of reach.
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From a Venice dance floor to a Brooklyn cemetery, Roger Guenveur Smith is still riffing with Jean-Michel Basquiat
Roger Guenveur Smith reclaims friend and celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from the auction block, one riff at a time.
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Why I’d rather see an average play than a great film
A couple of weeks ago, as I sat in a downtown theater watching a production of The Real Ivanov, I…
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