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It was the Voting Rights Act that prevented the GOP from stealing the 2012 presidential election and so naturally, it had to go, and our profoundly anti-democracy right-wing Supreme Court majority gutted it soon after. Now, discriminatory voting restrictions will … Continue reading →

is doing exciting things at the Two River theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. Their production of I Remember Mama closes at the end of this week, was highly recommended to me by someone who made the trip.

    Gabriel Byrne and Jessica Lange in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.   Frank Langella tap dances in a star turn The Father. Caught the Saturday night show of The Father — an international success built on the … Continue reading →

will be the subject of a MOMA tribute this summer! They’re screening all of her major films.

There’s a part of me that believes that the Gates are, in their own way and by their own lights well-meaning, but also extremely blinkered and prey as well to charlatans. After all, the more successful the individual, the more … Continue reading →

Haven’t seen anyone in the U.S. government do it better–and few nearly as well–as Representative Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. She’s sick of the criminalization of poverty in this country, and the way that tax breaks for the rich somehow go … Continue reading →

His charming one-man performance in “Fully Committed” at the 1903 Lyceum Theatre is unplugged and so much the better for it.  Bravo for not turning it into television!

The NY Phil annual free Memorial Day concert at St John began with a slow walking New Orleans funeral dirge up the main aisle led by Wynton Marsalis in honor of Maestro Masur. Masur, an East German, defused a confrontation … Continue reading →

Last Sunday afternoon, I saw the closing performance of David Hare’s The Judas Kiss at BAM’s Harvey theater. At the very end, when Oscar Wilde intones his own apotheosis over swelling musical strains, I thought that Rupert Everett’s voice might … Continue reading →

Q: How improper was AP’s intervention into the primary process this week? Writing for Truthout, Williams Rivers Pitt characterizes it “as undemocratic an act as I have ever witnessed after Bush v. Gore and the shenanigans in Ohio in 2004, … Continue reading →