In 'Fancy Dance,' an Indigenous women (Lily Gladstone) deals with the disappearance of her sister and caring for her niece who is traumatized by her mother's disappearance. She is only comforted by the hope of seeing her mother at the state powwow where the two will be together in the mother-daughter ritual dance.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ – Profound, Timely
In 'Prayer for the French Republic' questions are raised about the safety of French Jews with antisemitism on the rise. Wouldn't it be better to emigrate to Israel where it is safer?
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'I Can Get it For You Wholesale' reminds us of the toxicity of materialism and the hypocrisy of religious prosperity messages that exclude humanity and neighborly love and decency.
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'Spamalot is a laugh riot that speeds by at a break-neck pace. The ensemble are clowns of high art, who know how to do comedy. Gobsmacking!
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'Harmony' is a musical about an internationally famous, all-male German ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 until the Third Reich banned them as degenerates.
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In Bedlam's revival of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' the past and the present gradually merge as the truth comes clear about love and the second law of thermodynamics.
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A terrific theatrical adaptation of the award-winning Philip Roth novel.
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'Orlando, my political Biography' is an intriguing film which uses Virginia Woolf's novel 'Orlando' to understand trans people past and present.
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'Fallen Leaves' is Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's ironic, charming love story of working-class heroes rising above their circumstances to help each other.
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'The Taste of Things' is a mesmerizing visual pageant of the gastronomic exploits of a cook and a chef (Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel) in 19th-century France.
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