Ethan Stanislawski is a freelance journalist/critic and new media specialist. He is a regular reviewer and staff writer at Prefix Magazine, and also contributes regularly to Blogcritics Magazine. His interests include theater, film, and pop music criticism (with a focus on independent and alternative rock), sports, politics, the media, the Internet and Technology industries, and general culture. Ethan maintains the blog Tynan's Anger.
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Theater Review (NYC): An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble throws modernism under a bus with its watered-down staging of Ibsen's classic.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Great Place to Be From by Norman Lasca
The heat gets to the characters, but's that's as far as this ambitious play goes.
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Book Review - The New York Dolls: Photographs by Bob Gruen
For a band that's too big for one medium, Bob Gruen's photography at least captures the New York Dolls' glamorous side.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally
A forgotten masterpiece by Terrence McNally gets a timely revival by WorkShop Theater Company.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Chalk Boy by Joshua Conkel
Teen girl anxieties meet existential angst in Joshua Conkel's The Chalk Boy.
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Book Review: Mind to Mind - Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, edited by Elliot L. Jurist, Arietta Slade and Sharon Bergner
Takes on the psychoanalytic concept of mentalization, one of the most difficult — and most rewarding — clinical practices.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): Creena DeFoouie and The Redheaded Man
The NYC Fringe Festival concludes with a taste of the weird and the traumatic.
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DVD Review: John Oliver - Terrifying Times
John Oliver, one of The Daily Show's best correspondents, makes an awkward transition to stand-up.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): Zombie and The Corn Maiden
Two adaptations of Joyce Carol Oates novellas at the NYC Fringe show two approaches to staging psychology.
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TV Review: The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
By roasting Bob Saget, a comedian whose very career is itself a joke, Comedy Central made traditional insult humor obsolete.
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