AGAINST AMby Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder, and Morgan Spector, the imaginary reality that’s sadly not difficult to imagine.In HBO’s adaptation of the 2004 Philip Roth novel (March 16), David Simon and Ed Burns create a period piece that feels disturbingly modern in its depiction of how quickly democracy can dissolve. Seen through the lens of a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, portrayed THE PLOT six-part miniseries conjures a world in which Charles Lindbergh runs against and defeats President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. The series explores how fascism and anti-Semitism can turn a country against its values and into a state of chaos in an ERICA —AG
Business Without Really in are the definition of Broadway couple goals: They met through the theater scene in the 1990s and played opposite each other and Matthew Broderick Sarah Jessica Parker PLAZA SUITETryingSuiteof marriage later, they’re reteaming onstage for Neil Simon’s How to Succeed in , directed by. Nearly 23 years Plaza
by headliners Rage Against stop rising; already ascended to classic Norman Fucking Rockwell!not to gloss over this year’s fall; and of second-liners: second album, who dropped her awe-inspiring the Machine, Travis Scott, a larger font size.status, are all fully deserving of StallionCOACHELLAMusic festival season kicks into high gear on April 10 with a Coachella lineup led particularly talent-packed group and Frank Ocean. But be sure , whose star just won’t Lana Del ReyFKA twigsMagdaleneMegan Thee —AG, whose (left), , this has onstage and off.” The actor whom I get to love Parker and Broderick was to work with “an about how excited she John Benjamin Hickey. —VÉRONIQUE HYLANDpost announcing the Hotel. In an Instagram the Hudson Theatre. staying at the Plaza show opens March 13 at three different couples challenge of playing will take on the acting project, Parker gushedREAD
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madness after finding a mysterious note in Ottessa Moshfegh follows her beloved 2018 title, the woods. Rest and Relaxation(Penguin Press; April 21)with a fresh take on the archetypal murder mystery. The novel tracks an isolated widow’s dDeath in Her Hands escent into My Year of ,^ collection of candid (Vintage Books; March 31)Samantha Irby’s bril-liant cultural insight is on full display in a new she’s getting fan notes Wow, No Thank You. transition from life as a single person working in a Chicago veterinary hospital to a married woman in a house with a garden in Kalamazoo, Michigan. These days essays recounting her
from Abbi Jacobson and working for Hulu, but her eerily relatable approach to life remains intact.
(Penguin Books; the grim horror of April 21)In this eye-opening an-thology about climate change, an impressive cast of contributors including Edwidge Danticat, Mohammed Hanif, and Margaret Atwood reflect on how Tales of Two Planets our current ecological reality is being felt around the world. —ADRIENNE GAFFNEY The ClimbA toxic friendship cycles through betrayal, trauma, and forgiveness in this kooky indie debut by the writing and acting team of Michael
Marvin. It follows a hap-just wants to settle less loser (Covino, who also directs) grieving the death of the woman he stole from his best friend (Marvin), who Angelo Covino and Kyle down with his new girl-friend, played by Gayle Rankin in a delightfully ornery performance. (March 20)Never Rarely Some-times Always
in the coming-of-age encounters misinforma-genre, this tight drama tracks the quiet fear of 17-year-old Autumn (newcomer Sidney Flan-igan, a revelation) as she An essential new entry tion, Draconian laws, and a bus trek to New York City in pursuit of an abortion. (March 13)Lost GirlsWhen the police fail to thoroughly investigate a
ance, her mother (Amy of a serial killer hunting Ryan) takes matters into her own hands—and helps uncover the work sex worker’s disappear-vulnerable women—in this gripping mystery from director Liz Garbus. (March 13) —JULIE KOSIN
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Mprestige screen treatment in opposed to the ERA, becomes a bit more palatable when portrayed by Cate Blan- chett. Uzo Aduba and Rose Byrne round out the all-star cast as Shirley Chisholm and Gloria Steinem in this prescient retelling.The thorny—and still ongoing—battle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment is given Hulu). Notorious antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of a conservative movement RS. AMERICA Mrs. America—AG, a limited series premiering April 15 (FX on
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