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Matthew Broderick Stars as the Titular Grifter in “Tartuffe”
Cross and Broderick here offer studies in otiose passivity. Each gets big laughs from portraying inertia: their performances abound in side-eyed glances and awkward pauses followed by “So . . .” These...
What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia
“Pastoralia,” the title story in this collection, is about two people who work in a theme park, pretending to be cavemen. Like in “Atropia,” the main character is completely...
Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?
In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even...
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Mostly Treads Water
Got all that? Good. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is many things: a lengthy demo reel for the latest sophistications in performance-capture technology, for which we can credit the ever...
The Best Performances of 2025
Emma Stone, “Bugonia”Stone was on my list in 2023, the year she gave two discomfiting comic performances, in the Showtime series “The Curse” and in the Yorgos Lanthimos film...
Luci Gutiérrez’s “Inside Story”
The cover of the December 22, 2025, special Cartoons & Puzzles issue, by Luci Gutiérrez, celebrates the particular mixture of zaniness and dedication that it takes to produce an...
Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
Most of the book, though, is devoted to a “ludological biography” of the great man: a life in puzzle pieces, hitherto unassembled. Sondheim may not have considered his puzzles...
Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”
Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, Source link
The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi Size (Alani iLongwe), a gifted singer who has returned home...
Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins
The British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died, in September, at the age of seventy-eight, after a groundbreaking and globe-spanning career, leaving behind a catalogue that ranges from images of war-torn...
