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With Joe Meyers, entertainment writer

Another Doug Hughes winner

A decade ago, Doug Hughes had a brief but wonderful time as artistic director of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre until a conflict with the board of directors led to his resignation.
Since that split, Hughes’ career as a freelance director has thrived and now there is no busier (or better) director working in New York.
Last season, Hughes won a Tony for his perfect staging of “Doubt

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Quid pro quo makes the world go round

Actors seem to take a special pleasure in playing venal business people and Hollywood insiders — perhaps because they have to come to terms with the rather repulsive business side of their profession if they’re going to have a shot at the artistic end.
Two of my all-time favorite movie performances are Michael Douglas’ Oscar-winning work as Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street

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There are no small roles…

One of the great unheralded movie performances of the past few months only takes up about five or ten minutes of “Munich

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The best movies of the year

Movie theater ticket sales were down in 2005, but the slump couldn’t be blamed on the quality of the films that came out of the Hollywood studios.
The theatrical end of the movie business was hard hit by other media in 2005, with many boys and young men lost to video games and online pornography and the rest of the mass audience more and more content to see movies at home on DVD (only three or four months after the theatrical “window

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The incredible versatility of Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg has become one of our most versatile mainstream filmmakers, shifting effortlessly from summer popcorn movies such as “War of the Worlds

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Oprah, Uma…Uma, Oprah

Today’s New York and Los Angeles openings of the new Woody Allen film, “Match Point,

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In praise of Frederick Weller (and company)

If you’re looking for unusual Broadway entertainment during the holiday season, check out director Mark Lamos’ excellent revival of the 1974 Edward Albee play, “Seascape,

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A dark future for theatrical movies?

Peter Jackson’s $200 million version of “King Kong

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