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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Off-Broadway’s most flippant book report comes courtesy of one nearly nude penguin
"Garry Starr: Classic Penguins" strips the literary canon—and its performer—bare in a wild, near-naked Off-Broadway comedy at Studio Seaview.
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An open letter to September L. Davis
1 Minute Critic has receipts. An open letter to September L. Davis as the Tony-nominated actress prepares for her highly…
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Raúl Esparza and Lily Rabe anchor a gloriously messy ‘Winter’s Tale’
Daniel Sullivan's production doesn't so much solve Shakespeare's strangest play as embrace its chaos.
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Set change: Our favorite 5-star shows still playing
Some are closing soon, one's transferring to Broadway, another just got a new leading man. Four shows worth a trip…
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