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☆ 10 Performances That Pushed Emotional Limits
  + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’Even if the hairstyles in this play weren’t as fabulous as they were, Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” about a day in the life of African immigrants working in a Harlem hair-braiding shop, would still be a sparkling Broadway delight. That’s thanks to Bioh’s colorful characters and brisk, playful dialogue. I didn’t know until I saw David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,” which kept me fully engaged through its full three-hour running time. We learn about the characters through the parts they play in making and performing this music — which, by the way, is amazing, and written by Will Butler, formerly of Arcade Fire. (Read our review of “Flex.”)
Persons: ‘, Jocelyn Bioh’s “, Whitney, it’s, guiltily, Daisy Jones, ”, Fleetwood Mac, David Adjmi’s, Will Butler, David Zinn’s, Ryan, you’re, Erica Matthews, Mitzi E, Newhouse, “, Lileana Blain Organizations: Broadway, Center Theater Locations: Harlem, Arkansas
☆ ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,’ Almost
  + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Did you know that at some point in the ’90s there were two separate, very different Sonic the Hedgehog TV series running simultaneously? “And the same guy played Sonic in both shows,” Scott Pilgrim, the doofy 23-year-old layabout of “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” shares, unprompted, to his love interest, Ramona Flowers. The same guy playing two different versions of the same guy? It’s almost like how the same guy (Michael Cera) has now played two different versions of this same guy (Scott Pilgrim) — first in Edgar Wright’s damn-near-perfect 2010 film, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” and now in this underwhelming Netflix anime adaptation, both based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s beloved graphic novel series. “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” isn’t a reboot or a sequel; it begins almost identically to the film but takes a sharp turn at the end of the first episode that sets it up as essentially an alternate-reality scenario.
Persons: ” Scott Pilgrim, “ Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers, “, Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim, —, Edgar Wright’s, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s, Scott, Ramona Organizations: Netflix Locations: Toronto, “
☆ When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In a scene in Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” a man rolls in a cart of items to sell to the clients and stylists at the titular salon. I wasn’t the only one: A small contingency of the audience at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater started snickering and laughing before he had even fully stepped onstage. “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” draws its comedy from this world — a world familiar to many Black women audience members like me. Bioh’s salon isn’t an abstraction or callback; it’s a Black business set in modern-day Harlem. Bioh’s writing captures the quirks of a Black hair salon, and the characters who populate it: the unfortunate early-bird client who’s first to arrive when the shop’s late to open, the internal salon politics of stylists competing for clients, the inappropriate gossip, the sense of community.
Persons: Jocelyn Bioh’s “, ”, Samuel J, “, Whitney White, it’s Organizations: Friedman Locations: Harlem, Jaja’s
☆ What to Know About the Anime Coco Gauff Watches Before Playing
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But those really looking to level up take a different approach: watching anime. Or at least that’s what the 19-year-old American tennis sensation Coco Gauff does. Gauff, who qualified for her first U.S. Open singles final on Thursday night by defeating Karolina Muchova, said that her postmatch plans would include watching anime. In particular, Gauff said, she’s a fan of “My Hero Academia.” When asked how she would be spending the rest of her evening, Gauff responded: “Press. Izuku Midoriya, a young superhero fanboy, is one of the rare “quirkless” individuals, though he still dreams of somehow becoming the top hero.
Persons: Coco Gauff, Karolina Muchova, Gauff, she’s, ”, ‘, Academia ’, Izuku, Midoriya Organizations: “ Press, Marvel Locations: American, U.S
☆ Liberating? Exploitative? A Nude Scene Summer Report Card.
  + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
This has been a summer of women being liberated — from their wardrobes, mostly. Depending on the context of the story, the director’s intention, the work’s perspective or the execution of the shot, a nude scene may serve as shorthand for a character’s newfound physical or spiritual freedom, or even an emotional or psychological breakthrough. Or it may be another case of entertainment using a woman’s body for shock value. The setup: On “The Idol,” a young pop star named Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), feeling artistically frustrated and in the midst of a nervous breakdown, thrives under the tutelage of a mysterious club owner named Tedros (Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The scene: It’s tough to pick just one nude scene in this disaster of a television show because Jocelyn is perennially stuck in a state of partial undress.
Persons: “, “ Oppenheimer ”, Beauvoir, ”, Jocelyn, Lily, Rose Depp, Tedros, Abel Tesfaye
☆ This Netflix Anime Uses Alt-History to Explore Gender Norms
  + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Gender is a trap. That’s some of the subtext in the fascinating Netflix anime series “Ōoku: The Inner Chambers,” which tells a complex love story in an alternate-reality Edo Japan in which an illness upends society’s gender norms and expectations. (Iemitsu is based on the real-life shogun of the Tokugawa clan with the same name; “Ōoku” cleverly builds up its world from select real historical characters and events.) Forced to present herself as a man, Iemitsu grows into a brutal, violent misogynist. She struggles to find her place within the limitations of the gender binary.
Persons: Tokugawa, Iemitsu, Ōoku ” Locations: Edo Japan, Japan, ”
☆ When the Scientific Method Is an Accessory to Murder
  + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
LIQUID SNAKES, by Stephen KearseSomeone sound the alarms, bar the labs and give Dr. Fauci a ring — the scientists have gone mad. Not in real life, thankfully, but in “Liquid Snakes,” Stephen Kearse’s new novel, in which two C.D.C. epidemiologists try to track down a man’s home-brewed drug that he plans to wield as a bioweapon for revenge. Clever, pretentious and a bit sociopathic, Kenny is the mad scientist Walter White-ing his way through an unnecessarily involved revenge plot. But unlike Walter, Kenny is awfully dull.
Persons: Stephen Kearse, Fauci, Stephen Kearse’s, epidemiologists, Kenny Bomar, Kenny milks, Kenny, Walter White, Walter, don’t Organizations: Valencia
☆ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Review: Superfly’s Revenge
  + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
There’s a refreshing sense of nostalgia in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” — and it doesn’t just have to do with the fact that the eternally youthful ninja turtles have been around since the 1980s, in the form of the original comic book series, as well as TV adaptations, films, toys and video games. After all, what’s more adolescent than that? Now, as teenagers, the turtles — pugnacious Raphael (Brady Noon), doofy Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.), nerdy Donatello (Micah Abbey) and their ever-earnest leader, Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu) — dream of having a normal life with humans. But the aboveground masses face their own threat: Another mutated creature, Superfly (Ice Cube), aims to overtake the human world, Magneto-style. The turtles team up with a student journalist named April (Ayo Edebiri) to try to save the day and hopefully be accepted into human society.
Persons: Jackie Chan, who’s, pugnacious Raphael, Brady, doofy Michelangelo, Shamon Brown, Donatello, Micah Abbey, Leonardo, Nicolas Cantu, —, Ayo Locations: New York
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