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Pushing Up Daisey: Mencken-Loving Critic’s Sputtering Sentimental Journey
There’s a drama critic in every man (and woman, of course). Audiences can be pretty severe critics, and, in private, theater folk can be, too. An actor-writer by the name of Mike Daisey is a rarity,...
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Hot Tickets: Black Keys, Zappa Plays Zappa, Billy Elliot
When The Black Keys first exploded out of Akron, Ohio with the release of their sophomore LP Thickfreakness back in April 2003, The White Stripes were at the top of their game. Elephant—the album that...
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Make Way for Mamet the Didact!
David Mamet’s new play is here! The play that was to be Mamet, back in classic Mamet form! With a plot so incendiary that nothing about it could be revealed before performances started! With its poster...
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Who Would Be King: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the Public Theater
Mike Daisey in "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." (Photo by Joan Marcus / Public Theater) At least twice during his new show, the virtuoso monologist Mike Daisey refers to himself as an actor....
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This American Life Retracts Apple Factory Story; Author Mike Daisey Pulls a...
Daisey, performing "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" PRI’s This American Life has retracted its most popular broadcast ever, “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory,” because it contains “significant...
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Once Is Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Once
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in 'Once.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Before reckoning with the new, exceedingly lovely, and disappointingly thin Broadway musical Once, which opened Sunday night at the...
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Is The Daily Beast Becoming a Halfway House For Wayward Hacks?
Tina Brown (Photo: BeastTV) Newsbeast editor in chief Tina Brown seems to have developed a redemptive streak, at least when it comes to the bad boys and girls of the media world. Her website has...
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Mike Daisey Returns With New Work, Post-Steve Jobs Scandal: “I’m a Better...
Mike Daisey The monologist Mike Daisey’s recent travails have taught him something valuable. His new work, a series of six monologues to be performed, one per month, at Joe’s Pub beginning Monday, will...
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Monologist Mike Daisey is Saying “Yes This Man”
“I believe that, in issues that are highly dogmatic, art can disrupt our defenses,” Mike Daisey said. Mike Daisey always has something to say. The dot-com bust, lying, cell phones, Tom Ford,...
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Steve Jobs: The Play Hits New York
Apple fanboys and girls, New York is shaping up to be the city for you. Take your picture with the
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The Steve Jobs Play Starting Previews Today Will Keep Its Acid Tongue
It took about a day of beatification after Steve Jobs death before the backlash started in. Well, less than a
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‘Steve Jobs Sold Out,’ Says Performer Behind Powerful Drama of Apple’s History
Betabeat made the mistake of stopping by the Apple Store before work last week, forgetting it was the day the
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Finally: Apple and Foxconn to Participate in Fair Labor Audit
Was it the segment on The Daily Show, one of the iTunes store’s bestselling TV shows? Or the eye-opening investigative
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Everyone Got Over Their Foxconn Guilt Just in Time to Buy a New iPad
Remember that whole Apple/Foxconn debacle, wherein the New York Times questioned the human cost of the iPad’s Chinese production? Yeah,
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At His Last New York Performance, Mike Daisey Wins Crowds Over with...
Gawker may be on a witch hunt to catalog every lie and half-truth Mike Daisey has ever uttered, but audiences
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Mike Daisey Will Deconstruct His Agony and Ecstasy: ‘I Will Be Making a Full...
On his personal blog yesterday, Mike “The Boy Who Cried Foxconn” Daisey responded to Ira Glass’s public shaming and retraction
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Mike Daisey Finally Gives the Apology The Media Has Been Waiting For
After a swath of deflection attempts and half-apologies, notorious truth-exaggerator and Apple opponent Mike Daisey has finally issued the genuine
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Monologist Mike Daisey Puts Genius to the Test at Joe’s Pub
The title of the talented Mike Daisey’s ambitious new set of live story-telling events, Great Men of Genius, evokes an optimistic midcentury scientific book series for teenaged boys.
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