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One of the first hints – an uneasy moment in a remarkable evening full of them – planted in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play suggesting that all is not as it seems (and even what it seems isn’t entirely clear) comes shortly into the opening scenario. A black woman, dressed in Antebellum slave garb, and a white man…

The Freestyle Love Supreme I saw on Broadway last week won’t be the Freestyle Love Supreme theatergoers see tonight or tomorrow or any other night in its limited, 16-week run. An energetic, insistently likable mash-up of rap, improvisational comedy, hip hop, R&B crooning and, crucially, audience participation, FLS…

As Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society begins pulling you back back back to a cultural moment that rivals our own in meanness, division and barrel-scraping crumminess, Brian Cox would seem to have the toughest job on Broadway. Portraying the accidental president who succeeded the martyred one only to land waste deep…

“Haunting” is a word critics overuse, but sometimes nothing else will do. Still, I’ll do my best to avoid it – after this review of The Height of the Storm, the thoughtful and engrossing new play by Florian Zeller, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s…

When the best part of your Emmy Awards broadcast tonight is the short sendoffs to series that have finished including Games of Thrones and Veep, you might want to get your gaze out of the rearview mirror before you lose control. Sadly, that's not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why…

Lilly Singh made her transition from online to linear in the best way possible — by premiering the very first episode of her new NBC late-night show A Little Late with Lilly Singh on YouTube before it aired on television. Taking over the 1:35am timeslot, previously held by Last Call With Carson Daly, Lilly Singh not…

NBC has handed a Season 2 renewal to The Titan Games, the athletic competition series hosted by Dwayne Johnson. In its first season that launched in January, The Titan Games scored a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 with 6 million total viewers in Live+Seven Day. The series improved NBC's Thursday 8 p.m. timeslot by 19%…

Critics and audiences are sworn to secrecy – well, requested politely but firmly to do so – by the masterful British magician (or take your pick: mentalist, hypnotist, “psychological illusionist”) at the start of his bewildering, beguiling Broadway debut Derren Brown: Secret, opening tonight at the Cort Theatre. So no…

"Houston, we have a problem," said Senator Amy Klobuchar tonight at the third Democratic debate in the Texas metropolis. Yes, Houston and America, we do. Now reduced to 10 candidates, the contenders to Donald Trump's throne are already starting to feel like a rerun. Granted, ABC shifted away slightly from the WWE…

In the final hour before the New York Times published its scathing October 5, 2017 expose of Harvey Weinstein's alleged decades of sexual harassment, abuse and cover-up, Jodie Kantor and Megan Twohey's <a…

Secret love shacks, or love flats as the case may be, notwithstanding, no affair is an island built for two – there’s always at least a third person in the mix, typically considered the betrayed. In Jamie Lloyd’s masterful revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal – one is tempted to call it a reinvention, so deeply and…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the season two finale of Pose. Not even five minutes into the season two finale of Pose and the emotions start stirring as it is evident there has been a time jump from last week’s episode of fun in the sun. Now in 1991, we see Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Billy…