Culture

‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ Is Stuck in a Damning Time Warp

Out of Tune

‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ has returned to New York, but shorn of current political and social context, it feels out of time—particularly when the tap-dancing Klansmen enter.

Tim Teeman
Tim Teeman 

Senior Editor and Writer

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Tim Teeman

Tim Teeman

Senior Editor and Writer

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