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May 2

Abie’s Irish Rose: “A Genuine Manhattan Folkplay”

GROUCHO: Didn’t you ever see a habeas corpus? CHICO: No, but I see Habeas Irish Rose. — Animal Crackers, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, 1928 Even the opinions of geniuses — make that especially the opinions of geniuses — could use a grain of salt. This morning I read…

Abies Irish Rose

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Abie’s Irish Rose: “A Genuine Manhattan Folkplay”
Abie’s Irish Rose: “A Genuine Manhattan Folkplay”
Abies Irish Rose

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Feb 11, 2022

Da Silva / Nixon, 1970

Get a load of this. On February 22, 1970, the Broadway company of 1776 gave a command performance at the White House. They performed the entire musical, on a makeshift set built by Jo Mielziner in the East Room. …

Richard Nixon

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Da Silva / Nixon, 1970
Da Silva / Nixon, 1970
Richard Nixon

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Feb 3, 2022

Jewish Identity — Whoopi!

To begin with the obvious, Whoopi Goldberg is a national treasure, one of the greatest entertainers of all time, and a significant voice for truth and justice. Her comments about the Holocaust (that it was “not about race”) were well-intended, but indeed disingenuous and mistaken, as she has now acknowledged…

Whoopi Goldberg

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Jewish Identity — Whoopi!
Jewish Identity — Whoopi!
Whoopi Goldberg

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Nov 20, 2021

“Tick, tick…BOOM!” is the Jonathan Larson Movie of Our Dreams

[This essay contains spoilers.] No movie has ever hit home for me like tick, tick…BOOM!, the new film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical, but I could have told you that before I saw it. I can imagine an alternate-universe tick, tick…BOOM! …

Lin Manuel Miranda

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“Tick, tick…BOOM!” is the Jonathan Larson Movie of our Dreams
“Tick, tick…BOOM!” is the Jonathan Larson Movie of our Dreams
Lin Manuel Miranda

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Jan 20, 2021

Goodbye, Asshole

For four years now, everything has been worse. Even the best, happiest, most hopeful days of 2017–2020 have been marked by a relentless undercurrent of pain and fear, and the terrible knowledge that our federal government was in the hands of a dangerous, malicious nitwit. …

Trump

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Goodbye, Asshole
Goodbye, Asshole
Trump

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Mar 4, 2020

I’m Going to Miss Chris Matthews

I’m going to miss Chris Matthews. Yes, he can be belligerent, disingenuous, and inappropriate, and it was only a matter of time. Recently, within the space of ten days, he made an unfortunate Nazi reference (though he truly did not compare Sanders to Hitler); appeared astonished at the suggestion that…

Hardball

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I’m Going to Miss Chris Matthews
I’m Going to Miss Chris Matthews
Hardball

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Sep 22, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh: The Face of Rape

Even before Dr. Ford’s highly credible allegations were known, there was ample reason to equate Brett Kavanaugh with rape, and with the general subjugation and objectification of women. …

Politics

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Brett Kavanaugh: The Face of Rape
Brett Kavanaugh: The Face of Rape
Politics

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May 25, 2018

Waxing Off

Cobra Kai and the aesthetics of fan service — EVEN IN AN ENTERTAINMENT AGE which has offered us a fresh glimpse of Mad Man Mooney’s and a Star Wars film featuring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, the sheer unlikeliness of Cobra Kai is fascinating enough to sustain its ten brisk episodes. It’s one of the unlikeliest things…

Movies

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Waxing Off
Waxing Off
Movies

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May 11, 2018

The comedians will save us

The comedians will save us. I’m afraid it’s come to this. What else, against a racist joke well-brined in Russian piss? As we face a mindless menace with an ego made of glass, let’s smash it with derision, smoke him out with laughing gas. That’s how we’ll survive, on gales of laughter, laced with knives, reminders that the truth, and not the noise, controls our lives, that time will come for monsters everywhere to take their lumps, that Groucho danced on Hitler’s grave, and we will dance on Trump’s.

Donald Trump

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The comedians will save us
The comedians will save us
Donald Trump

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Aug 17, 2017

Maybe This is a Breaking Point

Maybe this is a breaking point. Yes, there’s a certain zealous base that will always stand by Trump, no matter who he shoots on Fifth Avenue. But, inexplicable though it may seem, there are decent people who voted for Trump and still haven’t abandoned him. There are good people who…

Politics

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Maybe This is a Breaking Point
Maybe This is a Breaking Point
Politics

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