Comedy, juggling, music and the macabre mingle in this darkly riotous clown show.
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Movie Review: ‘The Voice of Dust and Ash’
This remarkable film brings Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian to life with passion and joy.
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Humankind has to rise to the challenge and save ourselves; otherwise, we are going to get sucked into the Great Filter like particles of dust into a vacuum cleaner.
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'L'Amour à Passy' offers a memorable Madame Brillon but an unappealing Benjamin Franklin in this new two-hander.
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Flux Theatre takes on the climate crisis with a dystopian theatrical vision drawing on Greek myth, glam rock, and time travel.
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"I like projects that come to an end. That's probably why I can't see myself running a theater company because it perpetually goes on forever."
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An absorbing, pungently played exploration of the stark truths and confounding complexities that spawned the Hollywood edition of the #MeToo movement.
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A new production of 'Measure for Measure' takes the measure of cruelty and love with innovative staging and an excellent cast.
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Not everything is as it seems in this comic spy thriller about the CIA and the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973.
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There is something about saying the names of those who died for all to hear that confirms that those lost existed and had lives that mattered to those who loved and knew them.
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