BYLINE: IRREVERENT Newz Desk | Gus
The Shubert Organization announced Monday that all ticket stubs for the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman will now carry a yellow caution sticker reading "MAY CAUSE PROFESSIONAL DESPAIR IN PATRONS OVER 70."
The move comes 72 hours after Meryl Streep — 21 Oscar nominations, three wins, one undisputed claim to the title of greatest living actress — publicly declared she could retire from acting after witnessing Laurie Metcalf's performance as Willy Loman.
"She was that good," Streep told reporters outside the Hudson Theatre, clutching a Playbill like discharge papers. "I'm done.
...BYLINE: Dutch Caulfield | Author, 'Showroom Confessionals' | Special to IRREVERENT
The request came in on a Tuesday, which I remember because Tuesdays were slow and I'd learned to read the showroom like a tide chart. Guy walks in wearing a Patagonia vest, clean New Balance 990s, a Yeti tumbler the size of a small child filled with something iced and extremely complicated. He's done his research — knows the trim level, knows the payload rating, has printed
...BYLINE: Margaux Tenenbaum-Hollis, Senior Theatre Correspondent | IRREVERENT
The farmhouse sits at the end of a gravel drive in Sharon, Connecticut, flanked by birches that have the good taste not to be performing anything. It is, depending on your temperament, either serene or haunted. A wheel-thrown bowl slumps on the
...BYLINE: Jackie Esiskel
The story of D-Day has been told countless times by lesser filmmakers, but it took Anthony Maras—the visionary auteur behind Hotel Mumbai, a film that redefined the siege picture much as Tarkovsky redefined the tree—to understand that the true hero of Operation Overlord was not
...by Julian Cross
The first rule of Chicago Ketchup Club is you do not talk about Chicago Ketchup Club.
The second rule is the same. There are approximately eleven more rules, all printed on laminated cards in a font best described as "Microsoft Word at a funeral," and every single one hammers the same point: do not, under any
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