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Garbage plays show in Sydney following 'horrendous' shooting in Australia
Garbage concluded their 2025 tour in Sydney on Sunday, hours after a shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach killed 15 people during a…
The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi…
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Plays It Too Safe
It’s fun to wonder whether Bush—or any of the other moralists determined to “eliminate all actual repulsive situations” from Shelley’s…
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV
There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared…
Trump’s Fed Nominee Plays the Sycophant
Watching Stephen Miran testify Thursday before the Senate Banking Committee on his nomination to be a governor of the Federal Reserve, I…
“Splitsville” Plays Infidelity for Laughs; “A Little Prayer” Shows What’s Really at Stake
In the studiedly rambunctious comedy “Splitsville,” Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin play a pair of homewreckers. The home, a…
A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival
For a few weeks each August, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe fill every theatre, student center,…
Three Plays on the Pancake
Pancake Soufflé at Pitt’s It’s arguable that this dish, the flagship dessert at chef Jeremy Salamon’s proudly kitschy Red Hook restaurant,…
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were rolling in, a shock hit New York.…
“Prince Faggot” Sends Up Kink and Country
On a blue-lit stage, a naked man—blindfolded, trussed, and gagged—hangs like a deer from a pole. Pale and gleaming, he looks like a…
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My responsibility is to make…
Millions attend passion plays in Mexico City
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting…
Eggs Prices Soar to Record High as Trump Plays King
As Donald Trump enacts economic mayhem with his relentless tariff flip-flopping, eggs are still getting more expensive. The average cost…
Who plays Elon Musk on 'Kill Tony'? Meet Kyle Dunnigan
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's Netflix debut featured an Elon Musk impersonation by Kyle Dunnigan. Newsweek reached out to Dunnigan's…
When Marvel Meets “Much Ado About Nothing”
Every age, we kid ourselves, gets the Shakespeare it deserves—or, with any luck, the Shakespeare it badly needs. Take a famous example: to…
Abortion once more plays a key role in a state political fight, this time in Wisconsin's court race
As the candidates for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat squared off in a recent debate before early voting, one issue came up first and…
Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out Across the Government
Last week, Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, sought to reassure Democrats on Capitol Hill…
Trump Plays a Dangerous Game with the Abraham Accords
The regional actors he needs to attract to the coalition were drawn by its focus on Iran at the expense of the Palestinian issue. So much…
Donald Trump Plays Church
It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the…
The Era of Richard Foreman
With the death of the director Richard Foreman, at eighty-seven, on January 4th, an era came to an end. You might define that era as a…
Chadian government plays down gunshots in capital
The government of Chad has insisted the situation in capitol N'Djamena is stable after gunshots were heard near the presidential palace.…
Homeless figures rise in Germany but government plays down fears
The number of people registered as homeless in Germany rose sharply to around 532,000 last year, a government report said on Wednesday. In…
China plays down HMPV surge: "safe to travel"
China has insisted it is safe to visit the country amid concerns about a rise in the respiratory illness human metapneumovirus (HMPV). The…