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Mr. Hare Goes to Israel: Prolific Playwright Acts!

It's an unexpected pleasure to see David Hare on a Broadway stage, of all peculiar places. As he says at the start of Via Dolorosa , his engaging 90-minute monologue about his trip to Israel, he's...

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Judi, Judi, Judi, Oh, How We Love You

Judi Dench, you may have heard, is starring in David Hare's Amy's View , and nothing could give us greater pleasure than the sight of the Dame herself returning to the New York stage for the first time...

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Private Dinner at Nicole Farhi’s Megastore Launches Fashion Week

"The more time you have on your hands, the less important you must be," writes James Gleick in his potent new book, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything . Well, judging by its timetable...

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And the Heilpern Awards For 1999 Theater Go to …

To quote the lusty lyric from the much-loved The Scarlet Pimpernel , "So it's into the fire we go!" Here, then, are my theater awards for the past season and my wishes for the new. The award for the...

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Surrealism USA: Shocking Images Haven’t Aged Well

In the history of modern art, nothing dates more rapidly than audacity. Every fresh shock marks a new beginning for a rising generation eager to overtake established elders. The art that challenges...

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What Makes Political Theater Effective-Or Not

The mortal danger of all the political theater I’ve seen this season is whether it preaches pointlessly to the choir—or takes an imaginative leap to exist in its own dynamic right. All propaganda plays...

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What Makes Political Theater Effective—Or Not

The mortal danger of all the political theater I’ve seen this season is whether it preaches pointlessly to the choir—or takes an imaginative leap to exist in its own dynamic right. All propaganda plays...

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Triumphant Broadway Debut: Bill Nighy’s Time Has Come

There’s at least one outstanding reason to see David Hare’s premiere of The Vertical Hour at the Music Box: Bill Nighy, playing Mr. Hare’s worldly Englishman to Julianne Moore’s idealistic American, is...

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Kate Winslet ‘More Suited’ For Reader Role Than Nicole Kidman, Says Screenwriter

Wednesday night, at the much buzzed about premiere of The Reader, we asked Kate Winslet what it had been like to replace Nicole Kidman in the film. (Ms. Kidman departed in January due to her...

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Transom Week in Review: Mike Bloomberg and Lauren Bush Hit the Bottle!

We celebrated 20 (or 40, depending on how you're counting) years of Vera Wang's career at the opening of her Soho store. Michael Bloomberg and Lauren Bush agreed on recyling strategies at the UNICEF...

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