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What's So Funny About 9/11?

“Happy 9/11, everybody!”

It was actually September 9, nearly ten years after the attacks, and comedian Nick DiPaolo was on stage at the Gotham Comedy Club, where he’d been headlining, taking a chance that with a decade’s distance audiences might finally be ready to laugh—not about the thousands of dead, of course, but maybe about our shared anxieties and the collective experience of living with tragedy and fear. Read More

Crazytown, Missitucky

The Finian’s Rainbow that opened last week at the St. James Theatre is delightful, a good-hearted, high-energy romp with big laughs, beloved songs and some excellent performances. It is also perplexing, a nonsensical and sometimes tedious story that leaves the audience scratching their heads. (An hour and change after leaving the theater, I received an Read More