There are moments — often unremarkable, everyday moments — when the entire history between two people, former lovers, returns in an instant: the rush of
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Photo by Mary Beth Delucia
If the Broadway stage is any indication, we really don’t much care for our own era. Maybe we just don’t know what to d
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When Julie Taymor agreed, in 1995, to direct a stage version of The Lion King (for which she also designed costumes and, with Michael Curry, masks and puppets), the
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Dear Doctor,
Last night I dreamed I saw a play called Pathe X by Ricardo Zeger, presented by Zoo District at the Lillian Theater in Hollywood. When I woke up th
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Art by Dave Shulman
WHEN I WAS 18, I DECIDED TO WRITE A NOVEL BY dictating it into a tape machine. The idea, as I recall, was to avoid the quagmire of writing
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Art by Santiago Uceda
I'VE NEVER BEEN MUCH GOOD AT TELLING THE TRUE from the not true. Neither growing up Catholic nor studying philosophy in college gave
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FOR A CERTAIN KIND OF PERSON WHO CAME OF age in the 1930s, the English poet W.H. Auden played a role similar to the one Bob Dylan would play in the 1960s, if for a f
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