Richard Ades

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Young white woman in a white blouse, vest and hair pulled back sitting on a couch with hands clasped looking irritated

06 March 2018

Oscar season reveals potency of #MeToo movement

Will the #MeToo/Time’s Up movement have a lasting effect on Hollywood? Too soon to say, obviously, but it’s already had a profound effect in the short term...

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29 January 2018

Shadowbox show to honor ’60s struggles for freedom, equality

Richard Ades

It’s been nearly nine years since Shadowbox Live time-traveled to the 1960s with Back to the Garden. The music-filled re-creation of the Woodstock Festival...

On the left a black man facing right in a white shirt and tie looking at a woman his hands in front of him with fingers clasped like he's praying and the white woman with long brown hair to the left is looking up at him with arms folded wearing a pick shirt. They are standing in front of a window looking over a nighttime city scene

03 January 2018

High-stakes gambler is more admirable than likable

Richard Ades

Like the title character Jessica Chastain portrayed in last year’s Miss Sloane, the woman she plays in Molly’s Game is driven by fierce...

A man with chin length curly brown hair looking intense sitting down with old fashioned clothes from the 30s and an older gray haired man in black with a black top hat leaning over his shoulder saying something in his ear, bookshelves in the background

06 December 2017

Jukebox musical, film fail to improve on Dickens classic

Richard Ades

Theater troupes and filmmakers persist in telling and retelling A Christmas Carol year after year. And why not? Charles Dickens’s ghostly morality...