Jackson McHenry
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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 Oscars
The highs, lows, and whoas of the 2023 Oscars on ABC, including the best annd worst speeches and moments of the night, from Ke Huy Quan and Sarah Polley to Jimmy Kimmel hosting and a fake Jenny the Donkey. → Read More
Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House’ Starring Jessica Chastain
Theater Review: Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House,’ adapted by Amy Herzog and starring Jessica Chastain, at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway in New York. → Read More
History of the World, Part II’s Beautiful Commitment to Stupidity
Let’s celebrate how surprising and impressive it is to see a show lean this hard into total idiocy. → Read More
Theater Review: ‘The Trees’ at Playwrights Horizons
If you were a tree, you might want to be this kind. → Read More
Theater Review: Love at the Park Avenue Armory
Alexander Zeldin’s drama about Londoners in temporary housing comes to New York. → Read More
Ritual Healing in ‘Letters From Max’ and ‘Black Odyssey’
Theater reviews of Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Letters From Max’ at the Signature Theatre and Marcus Gardley’s ‘black odyssey’ at Classic Stage Company. → Read More
Lorraine Hansberry on Hashtag Activism: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Theater review: ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ by Lorraine Hansberry, revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) with Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan. → Read More
‘Kings’: Oral History of Ambitious, Ill-Fated 2009 NBC Drama
maybe? An oral history of 2009’s ‘Kings,’ the expensive, ambitiously weird drama created by Michael Green and starring Ian McShane and Sebastian Stan, on which NBC bet its prestige future and lost. → Read More
The Next Class of Breakout Male Actors
Meet the next class of actors who will be dominating screens (and hearts) for the foreseeable future. Here’s a taxonomy of the biggest breakout actors 35 and under who haven’t (yet) been the lead of a major superhero film. → Read More
Theater Review: ‘A Bright New Boise’ at the Signature
Samuel D. Hunter’s early play returns to the New York stage. → Read More
Why Not Simply Eat ‘The Last of Us’ Fungus?
Why not simply eat the fungus from ‘The Last of Us’? It looks tasty. It might be fun to eat. Nobody is considering this. → Read More
Theater Reviews: ‘Wolf Play’ and ‘Cornelia Street’
It blurs its factual universe into a fictional one. Plus: ‘Cornelia Street’ at the Atlantic. → Read More
The Last of Us Episode 3 Falls into the Trap of Prestige TV
In imitating the rhythms of prestige TV, the video-game adaptation loses its emotional center. → Read More
‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot Canceled at HBO Max After Season 2
HBO Max has canceled its reboot of ‘Gossip Girl,’ created by Josh Safran, after two seasons. The show will end on January 26. → Read More
Meryl Streep Joins ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3
Meryl Streep has joined the cast of Hulu’s ‘Only Murders in the Building’ for its third season, as announced by Selena Gomez alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. → Read More
Amanda Seyfried Resurfaces As Part of a Thelma & Louise Musical Workshop
Amanda Seyfried is part of a workshop of a stage musical version of Thelma and Louise with Evan Rachel Wood, explaining her absence from the Golden Globes. → Read More
‘We Only Ever Talk About It in Terms of What Makes Us Laugh’
Co-creator of ‘I Hate Suzie Too’ Lucy Prebble discusses the ideas behind the second season, public and private performances and the nature of the “anti-Christmas special” for the Billie Piper series. → Read More
Two Kings, Not Much Pleasure: The Collaboration
Theater review of ‘The Collaboration,’ by Anthony McCarten, starring Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope as Warhol and Basquiat, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway → Read More
King Lear, But Rent Controlled: Between Riverside and Crazy
Theater Review: ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ by Stephen Adly Guirgis at the Hayes Theater on Broadway, → Read More
Where Should You Send Your Nepo Baby to High School?
Your choices to one of America’s handful of nepo-approved nepo-baby private schools, ranked by how many notable alumni attended each institution: Crossroads, Harvard-Westlake, Saint Ann’s, and Sierra Canyon. → Read More