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In Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, violence erupts in Miss Martha's seminary, poorly-defended citadel of virtue, but the women never lose their poise. …
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Drunk Shakespeare is a riveting mix of Macbeth and tequila
Drunk Shakespeare is an abridged 90-minute whirlwind version of Macbeth full of jokes, drinks, and audience participation. …
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San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival showcases under-the-radar LGBTQ films
For Bay Area cinephiles, the Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival is often an opportunity to catch up with queer films that previously screened at the San Francisco …
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Review: The Bad Batch is frustratingly undercooked
Ana Lily Amirpour’s wasteland survival story, The Bad Batch raises a lot of issues while never quite getting to its point. …
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Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers
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Director Rungano Nyoni on her Zambia-set debut I Am Not a Witch
Zambia-born, Cardiff-raised director Rungano Nyoni discusses her first feature I Am Not a Witch, which tackles patriarchal constraints on women in Zambia, and …
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Review: San Francisco’s beautiful The Speakeasy is more bar than theatre
San Francisco's site-specific The Speakeasy from Boxcar Theatre invites you into a Prohibition-era haunt with amazing period costumes and design but fall shorts …
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Review: The Public Theater takes a joyous, bare bones Twelfth Night on the road
The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York …
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Review: Linney and Nixon impress in Little Foxes on Broadway
Director Daniel Sullivan makes the most out of Lillian Hellman's uneven Little Foxes, creating a showcase for Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon. …
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