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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 1d

Broadway and Off: Beckett-a-rama: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in an unlikely Godot and Stephen Rea rolling Krapp's Last Tape:

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Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre)/Krapp's Last Tape (NYU Skirball) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

How do you like your Samuel Beckett? Frothy and starry, or straight, no chaser? In New York this week, you have a choice: A slicked-up revival of Waiting for Godot, starring Hollywood's once and ...

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 6d

Off Broadway: Jane Austen gets another roughing in this bizarro-world Pride and Prejudice:

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Theatre in Review: Are the Bennet Girls OK? (Bedlam/West End Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

In a word, no. Frankly, the Bennet Girls -- each of whom, in Emily Breeze's new play, lives on the edge of a conniption fit -- could use a nice, long vacation, a grand tour, perhaps, where they might ...

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 7d

And this is what they worry about.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d

They literally only know how to be victims

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 8d

Broadway: Three stars have a lot of fun onstage. But is it art?

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Theatre in Review: Art (Music Box Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris are having a high old time on stage at the Music Box these nights. You might, too. Depending.<br>Yasmina Reza unleashed a commercial juggernaut ....

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 11d

A very, very good point.

Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 12d

I actually think it’s smart and strategic for the regime that the secdef called hundreds of generals together from around the world to sit them in a room and call them fat.

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 12d

The stunning new drama Punch confronts the belief that punishment can put an end to violence:

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 13d

Like it's a country club everyone wants to get into...

David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 13d

Off Broadway: A taut psychological thriller about a political killing in 1979 Belfast and its decades-long aftermath:

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Theatre in Review: The Honey Trap (Irish Repertory Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

Much of the considerable suspense onstage at the Irish Rep these nights comes from the sight of Michael Hayden trying to control his volcanic rage. Cast as Dave, a retired member of the British Army ....

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 14d

I bet the freak out.

David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 15d

John Leguizamo goes all Arthur Miller on us in his new play:

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Theatre in Review: The Other Americans (Public Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

John Leguizamo, for thirty-five years the master of the funny, frank, often scalding solo performance piece, has now committed the most radical act of his career, penning an old-fashioned drama out ....

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 19d

lol..,

Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 19d

A 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein joyfully holding hands appeared at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. early Tuesday, sparking outrage among Trump supporters.

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Trump furious after humiliating giant statue appears outside White House

The White House issued a statement after a 12-foot statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands and frolicking, calling it a waste of money for liberals

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21d

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 21d

I guess the American Press doesn't find this Newsworthy.

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 21d

Dramatic irony in the true Greek sense.

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 23d

For example, Esther Williams in Million Dollar Myriad.

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David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 23d

In the Catholic Church, this is known as giving scandal. But I guess the cardinal forgot about that.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23d

To hear a member of the Sacred College venerate a serial race-baiter is disheartening, to say the least. Showing respect for someone so tragically murdered does not require this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"