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What to stream this week: Dolly Parton rocks out, ‘The Crown’ returns, ‘Rustin’ creates a march
13Nov By adminNo Comments
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What to stream this week: Dolly Parton rocks out, ‘The Crown’ returns, ‘Rustin’ creates a march

Colman Domingo's incredible performance in the civil rights biopic “Rustin” and Dolly Parton's rock music album are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a series where Godzilla, King Kong and other monsters are real, the fifth Persona video game and return of “The Crown.”— A powerhouse performance by Colman Domingo fuels the Netflix drama “Rustin,” streaming Friday Nov. 17, about the civil rights pioneer and March on Washington architect Bayard Rustin. The film, directed by George C. Wolfe, chronicles the run-up to the indelible 1963 march where Rev. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. “Rustin,” the first narrative fea...
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‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro’s Flailing, Philandering Odyssey
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro’s Flailing, Philandering Odyssey

New YorkFlaccid is perhaps the most damning word one could conjure to describe the New Group adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel “Sabbath’s Theater.” Its protagonist—the disgraced puppeteer Mickey Sabbath, played by John Turturro—is among the most lunatically lecherous characters in fiction. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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What to stream this week: Annette Bening, Jason Aldean, Awkwafina, NKOTB and ‘Blue Eye Samurai’
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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What to stream this week: Annette Bening, Jason Aldean, Awkwafina, NKOTB and ‘Blue Eye Samurai’

Awkwafina starring as a game-show-obsessed woman in “Quiz Lady” and the animated historical drama “Blue Eye Samurai” about a mixed-race, revenge-seeking female samurai in Japan are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near youAlso among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a studio album from Jason Aldean, a new Hulu series made from Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Black Cake” and Annette Bening portrays a real-life hero who swam the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West in 2013.— It took Diana Nyad more than 30 years and five tries to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. “Free Solo” filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad,” streaming Friday, Nov. 3 on Netflix, dramatizes her ...
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Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer, dies
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer, dies

NEW YORK -- Robert Brustein, a giant in the theatrical world as critic, playwright, crusader for artistic integrity and founder of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, has died. He was 96.Brustein died on Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to an emailed statement from Gideon Lester, the artistic director and chief executive of the Fisher Center at Bard University and a decades’ long family friend. Lester said he heard the news from Brustein's his wife, Doreen Beinart.Known as a passionate and provocative theater advocate who pushed for boundary-breaking works and for classics to be adventurously modernized, Brustein founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard.Some of the works he championed upset critics and ...
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 15
15Oct By adminNo Comments
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 15

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Film• “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Oct. 20): Martin Scorsese returns with this tale, co-written by Eric Roth and based on the book by David Grann, about a series of real-life murders in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma that were committed in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land. Frequent Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro star in a cast that includes Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Jack White and more. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Two Books to Sing About
5Oct By adminNo Comments
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Two Books to Sing About

What are the odds? Two books, both by English tenors and both on the nature of song. In “Song & Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance,” Ian Bostridge, known for his intense operatic performances and lieder recitals, offers a personal inquiry of sorts. John Potter—a versatile singer whose extensive discography includes early music with the Hilliard Ensemble and tightly harmonized ’70s pop with the Swingle II iteration of the Swingle Singers—ranges across centuries and styles in “Song: A History in 12 Parts.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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