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Clooney has chosen to make a splash on Broadway in a play that is explicitly political
Another way is to refuse it altogether. Which may be how you arrive at absurd drama
Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of my play as a joke, and I thought it was a good one
Its failure mirrors that of American Psycho
The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating
The producers will, you feel, be relieved today
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
The language itself — and the on-the-nose themes that Amy Herzog has unsubtly emphasized — feel like they could be sourced directly from Twitter/X
