Empathy dictates we should feel another’s pain, as a certain politician once drawled. Yet the instinctual response is more often sympathy, the gesture of concern that pulls away even as it hugs.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker’s weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic. By Jesse Green A ...

Pulitzer-winning Annie Baker’s new play, “Infinite Life,” is set in a California clinic, whose characters fast as they confront, and try to make sense of, the pain they are in. Senior Editor and ...

NEW YORK — The plays of Annie Baker take up a question that preoccupied Anton Chekhov at the end of the 19th century. How much propulsive action must a play contain to hold an audience’s attention? At ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A top Halo Infinite developer has commented on the ongoing discourse around the game's progression system, acknowledging "everyone's pain" about how ...

Infinite Life, opening the small but mighty Coal Mine Theatre’s 10th season in Toronto, is the latest of American playwright Annie Baker’s uncanny comedies set in a subculture of outsiders searching ...

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