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1984

hurt/comfort Apr. 10, 2024

The Hottest New Release on BookTok Is (Checks Notes) 1984?Andrew Scott tortures Andrew Garfield, for all the recovering tumblr girlies.

By Bethy Squires
tony awards Nov. 10, 2017

1984 Ineligible for Tonys After Refusing to Let Nominator See PlayThe New York Times reports Tony nominating committee member Jose Antonio Vargas was not permitted to see the show.

By Halle Kiefer

theater June 27, 2017

Seeing 1984 With George Orwell’s SonA trip to a Broadway opening and after-party with Richard Blair.

By Jackson McHenry
fainting vomiting and screaming June 24, 2017

Directors of Broadway’s 1984 on Reports of Mid-Show Fainting and Vomiting“We’re not trying to be willfully assaultive or exploitatively shock people.”

By David Canfield
June 22, 2017

Theater Review: How Orwellian Is 1984?What’s weak, astonishingly enough, is the script, at least for the first hour.

By Christopher Bonanos
exclusive Feb. 2, 2017

London’s 1984 Is Coming to Broadway, Just in Time for 2017Opening night is set for June 22.

By Jackson McHenry
peak dystopia Jan. 24, 2017

Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Inspire Masses to Buy Book 1984George Orwell’s classic saw a government control people with “newspeak.”

By Tolly Wright
somewhere in time Nov. 13, 2014

What Songs Were Big When ‘Like a Virgin’ Hit?Thirty years ago this week, “Like a Virgin” hit the Billboard Top 40.

By Dave Holmes
across the streaming-verse Nov. 22, 2013

What to Stream on Netflix and Amazon Prime This Weekend: Movie DystopiasThe movie dystopias of George Orwell, Franz Kafka, and others.

By Matt Patches
brief history June 13, 2013

NSA, CIA, FBI, Everyone — A Timeline of Surveillance in the MoviesSorry, NSA. The movies beat you to the punch.

By Bilge Ebiri
spying June 11, 2013

Lots of People Bought 1984 This WeekBecause of the NSA, probably.

By Amanda Dobbins
movies Mar. 21, 2012

New 1984 Adaptation in the WorksIt’s dystopia all over again.

By Brett Smiley