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April 27, 2014
Erica Wagner
Hillary Mantel: This Is What It's Like to Be on the Receiving End of a Hate Campaign
June 12, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Smoking and the Intellectual
'Susan Sontag: Reborn' turns intellectual evolution into drama
May 1, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
Two of the Best
April 11, 2013
David Hajdu
Meet the Queen of 'Kamikaze Cabaret'
Burning down Lincoln Center with Meow Meow
March 28, 2005
Robert Brustein
Plays and Prophecies
October 8, 2001
Robert Brustein
No Time For Comedy
Is there room for farce—and critical thought—after September 11?
March 14, 1988
Robert Brustein
The Schlepic
Andrew Lloyd Weber's "The Phantom of the Opera" is the latest in a series of epic theater productions.
December 22, 1947
Irwin Shaw
The Brutal Beauty of A Streetcar Named Desire
A review of Tennessee Williams' 1947 play

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