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Laura Collins-Hughes

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Entertainment
8 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Yasmin is asleep outdoors, bathed in the orange glow of her space heater, when a man sneaks up to steal her source of warmth. A young woman alone, she appears defenseless to this stranger, an easy target — until she snaps to alertness and springs on him with a violence that’s almost feral.
Review: In 'Power Strip,' a Syrian Story Both Bleak and Striking
Entertainment
5 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — The story of the sisters Procne and Philomela is one of the truly gruesome Greek myths, full of rape and murder and bloody mutilation — but also, and this is rather nice, tremendous sibling devotion. For “Weightless,” a smart retelling of it as an indie-rock opera by Bay Area band the Kilbanes, that love is the core of the legend.
Entertainment
25 Jun 2024
NEW YORK — Obie Award-winning actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine got married last September on a rooftop in Brooklyn, but the honeymoon to St. Kitts had to wait. One of the most valuable performers in some of the boldest new off-Broadway work, she can seem almost omnipresent on New York stages. You might assume a show got in the way.
Entertainment
25 Jun 2024
NEW YORK — It matters who you know, and in 1997, 21-year-old Jason Eagan knew almost no one in New York. But quality can indeed make up for quantity. One contact — illustrator Ian Falconer, now of “Olivia” fame — ushered him into a glamorous downtown crowd. Another, Julie Taymor, pointed him toward a behind-the-scenes job on “The Lion King.”
He's 'Three Steps Ahead of the Culture'
Entertainment
26 May 2024
NEW YORK — A clipboard in her hand, a tiara on her head, the queen was drafting her country’s constitution, the sort of idealistic undertaking that requires the mulling of common values. So she sought out a citizen and bounced a question off him.
Flourishing in Bedlam, but Flying to the Coop
Entertainment
4 Jul 2019
He was there, on a Sunday evening in late June, to perform his version of the Gospel of John — not as a sendup or radical rethink, but as an act of testament, the religious text edited down to 90 minutes.
When theater is a religious experience