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New York Times Again Embraces Occupy Wall Street Propaganda...in a Theatre Review

9/20/2012 12:21 PM ET
Every edition of the Times provides more evidence how deeply the leftism of Occupy Wall Street has seeped into its collective consciousness. This time there was an arbitrary reference to one ...

Critic Ben Brantley's Anti-Bush Theatrics

2/6/2009 2:37 PM ET
I must have been out sick those days: "The days when criticism of Mr. Bush could be censured as unpatriotic may be long gone..."

Lack of Snow in NYC Due to You Know What

12/9/2008 11:56 AM ET
Times theatre critic Charles Isherwood is feeling "flake-deficient" and blames global warming.

Theatre Critic Dislikes the "Jesus Freaks" in Christian Satire "Saved"

6/4/2008 2:08 PM ET
The theatre critic doesn't like the play "Saved": "Why does it often feel like 'Legally Blonde,' only with, like, Jesus freaks?"

"High School Musical": The Movie, the Show - the Religion?

8/15/2007 8:51 AM ET
Yikes: "Just as new faiths grow out of old belief systems (see Judaism and Christianity), 'High School Musical' is essentially derived from a previous mythology promulgated in the latter days of ...

"The Madman in Charge Doesn't Know What He's Doing"

7/24/2007 1:43 PM ET
Theatre critic Ben Brantley reviews a play by left-wing playwright Harold Pinter and dutifully places Pinter's anti-Bush backstory at center stage.

Prometheus Bush?

3/27/2007 11:57 AM ET
Theatre critic Wilborn Hampton finds modern-day resonance in the ancient tale of an "autocratic ruler who runs roughshod over anyone who disagrees with him."

Pro-Life Actress Patricia Heaton's "Extreme Positions"

1/2/2007 3:09 PM ET
So Heaton is "extreme," but Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, etc., aren't?

Publicizing a Play for Tookie

12/14/2006 1:54 PM ET
An obscure piece of anti-death penalty propaganda theatre in Berkeley somehow makes the Times' front section.

"The First Stirrings of Rabid Anti-Communism"

12/8/2006 12:10 PM ET
The Times' theatre critic explains history for us in a review of a Manhattan production.
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