Inspired by the real-life onstage/offstage marital drama of the husband-and-wife acting team, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, this Tony Award-winning 1948 musical features an engaging book by Sam and Bella Spewack and a score packed with iconic Cole Porter earworms—among them “Why Can’t You Behave,” “Always True to You (In My Fashion),” and “Too Darn […]
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Anything Goes is too stuck in the past to be at all relevant today
A nostalgia-heavy story about the 1 percent during the Great Depression, Anything Goes is more problematic than fun.
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FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor
George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the “director of the week” treatment form FilmStruck.
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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck
FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
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Five Guys Named Moe, The Funny Papers, and eight more new stage shows to see
A Louis Jordan tribune and a satire of the 21st-century news biz are among this week’s best bets.
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A dispute seems to have galvanized Porchlight’s In the Heights
There was much ado about the casting of Porchlight Theatre’s In the Heights, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical shines through.
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After gay marriage, whither exquisite anguish and romantic tragedy?
Is the price of progress a loss of artistic inspiration?
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In Rotation: Pop critic Jonathan Bogart on transgender Angolan pop star Titica
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Tal Rosenberg, “free-floating pop critic” Jonathan Bogart, and writer Britt Julious.