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Rich Little Doesn’t Just Impersonate Nixon. He Supports Him.

POWER MAD

Rich Little’s latest stage performance posits that Richard Nixon’s Watergate culpability was zero, and that the shamed president resigned only for the good of the Republican Party.

David Freedlander | Published Aug 16, 2021

Jessica McClure’s Mine Drama Returns, Right into Your Home

PAST PRESENT

Phillip Santos Schaffer’s “Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play” uses the mine-fall drama that transfixed America to examine connection and empathy, with the audience in a starring role.

David Freedlander | Published Oct 19, 2020

The Artists Who Blew Up the Whitney Biennial

OFF THE WALL

Forensic Architecture’s research led to the resignation of Whitney board member Warren B. Kanders. The group’s founder, Eyal Weizman, reveals how they combine art and activism.

David Freedlander | Published Aug 08, 2019

The All-Star Mueller Report Play Fails To Make Trump Tweet

Evidence

John Lithgow played Trump, Kevin Kline played Robert Mueller, and Alyssa Milano played Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow. But the very starry ‘The Investigation’ told us nothing new.

David Freedlander | Published Jun 25, 2019

There’s No Escaping Donald Trump at the Whitney Biennial

LOOK CLOSELY

The 2019 Whitney Biennial is the first edition of the prestigious survey of contemporary American art of Donald Trump's presidency, and he is an unavoidable presence.

David Freedlander | Published May 22, 2019

There’s a Lot of Art at Armory Week, and Even More Money

Buy Me

There are some beautiful works of art at the Armory Show and New York's other art fairs. But you will also become extremely aware of the extravagant lives of the super-rich.

David Freedlander | Published Mar 09, 2019

How To Turn ‘Frankenstein’ Into a Magical Puppet Show

Visual

Watching Manual Cinema’s ‘Frankenstein,’ it is hard to know whether you should direct your gaze to the puppets or the actors. Whatever, it is impossible to look away.

David Freedlander | Published Jan 07, 2019

Shakespeare Has Never Tasted So Delicious

Chow, Kind Sir

In Shake & Bake's production of 'Love's Labour's Lost' in New York's Meatpacking District, visitors are served an 8-course meal, alongside Shakespeare at its most riotous and fun.

David Freedlander | Published Oct 13, 2018

You’ve Never Seen a Performance Like ‘Available Light’

SINGULAR

John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry created the unique performance piece ‘Available Light’ 35 years ago. As it returns to the stage, the trio recalls its heady genesis.

David Freedlander | Published Jul 11, 2018

The Revealing Ghosts of Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King

Lost In Time

A new show at the New York Historical Society is less about two men who barely knew each other, than it is the story of the civil rights movement in America.

David Freedlander | Published Feb 17, 2018

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