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THE NEW YORK SUN: ‘Peerless’ Reaches Back Even While Proving Prescient
THE NEW YORK SUN: ‘Peerless’ Reaches Back Even While Proving Prescient

A few years after playwright Jiehae Park wrote her piece modeled on ‘MacBeth,’ the most notorious college admissions scandal of our time would captivate the news cycle.

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Grace BydalekOctober 13, 2022
HIGH LINE NINE: Matthijs Scholten: The Accidental Artist
HIGH LINE NINE: Matthijs Scholten: The Accidental Artist

“When I paint, I always want to paint in face form, or in a mask with huge eyes. And those eyes, they watch me. They are a reminder of who I am, a reminder to stay close to myself.”

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Grace BydalekOctober 4, 2022
HIGH LINE NINE: Myna Mukherjee: Lives Lived in Pursuit of Beauty
HIGH LINE NINE: Myna Mukherjee: Lives Lived in Pursuit of Beauty

“Contemporary is not a style. Contemporary is the time that we live in. And if the time that we live in is pregnant with so many questions, it is important that we keep asking them.”

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Grace BydalekSeptember 30, 2022
THE NEW YORK SUN: Making Us Look at What We Choose To Ignore
THE NEW YORK SUN: Making Us Look at What We Choose To Ignore

Despite a poignant premise, execution undermines the ultimate impact of ‘The Memory Exam.’

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Grace BydalekSeptember 10, 2022
THE NEW YORK SUN: Entering the World of Kate Berlant, Yet It’s Theater After All
THE NEW YORK SUN: Entering the World of Kate Berlant, Yet It’s Theater After All

Under the direction of Bo Burnham, the comedian’s genesis story unfolds in ‘Kate.’ Berlant portrays a variety of characters with extraordinary physicality and ease, except for the matter of a single tear.

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Grace BydalekSeptember 9, 2022
THE NEW YORK SUN: A Single Day Captured, As If In a Snow Globe
THE NEW YORK SUN: A Single Day Captured, As If In a Snow Globe

Clarence Coo’s writing lends itself well to the director’s cinematic vision for ‘On That Day in Amsterdam,’ calling to mind the dreamy fiction of authors like Haruki Murakami.

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Grace BydalekAugust 11, 2022
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