‘Kinky Boots’ Bring High-Heeled Kick to London Stage: Review
Kinky boots have been around for a very long time in the UK, almost before London was truly swinging in the 1960s.One of the key bands of the time, the Kinks, all dedicated followers of fashion, got...
View ArticleGuy Maddin Hypnotizes Audiences with "The Forbidden Room"
If a filmmaker could believably be called a magician, only one name would come to mind: Guy Maddin. The Canadian artist, who for almost three decades has been conjuring images from the depths of both...
View ArticleContemporary Arts Week 2015 Returns to Delhi with More Artistes and Venues in...
A third edition of the Contemporary Arts Week 2015 brings 120 performances, and 300 artistes to Delhi. Growing in scope each year, the event scheduled for the week of October 3 - 10, 2015, is ready to...
View ArticleContemporary Arts Week 2015 Returns to Delhi with More Artistes and Venues in...
A third edition of the Contemporary Arts Week 2015 brings 120 performances, and 300 artistes to Delhi. Growing in scope each year, the event scheduled for the week of October 3 - 10, 2015, is ready to...
View ArticleNicole Kidman Returns to the Stage Fully Clothed in “Photograph 51”
In 1998, one of the sensations of the season was the Broadway debut of Nicole Kidman in David Hare’s “The Blue Room,” a sexual roundelay that featured the lissome actress in a flash of nudity. When the...
View ArticleCrisis? What Crisis? Lavish European Opera Season Opens With Megabucks Stagings
Flying in the face of fears of the state (and finances) of the opera scene worldwide, the European opera scene is opening with lavish stagings in Germany and Austria, three of which are immediately...
View ArticleThe Lion in Winter: Michael Flatley Retires After Broadway Run
Having created and choreographed the international blockbusters “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance” in the 1990s, the flamboyant dancer Michael Flatley says he will hang up his tap shoes after a...
View ArticleTran Anh Hung Joins Bryan Singer on Tokyo Film Fes Jury
Vietnamese born French film director Tran Anh Hung will join the jury of Tokyo International Film Festival this year, led by Byran Singer as President. While Singer, quite the coup for TIFF, was...
View ArticleThe Haunted Films of “Battle of Chile” Director Patricio Guzman
In many ways, Patricio Guzman has been making the same movie for more than 35 years. At least his films are all haunted by the same moment, the same rupture, in the same place: Chile, September 11,...
View ArticleMust-See London Gigs: Patti Smith, Hot Chip, Bob Dylan, Sisters
Singer-songwriter veterans such as Bob Dylan and Patti Smith; up and coming acts such as Hot Chip; the Sisters of Mercy, and more are playing London shows this coming month.With festival season behind...
View Article5 Films To See This Week in New York: "Stretch & Bobbito,""Western," and More
“Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens October 1I’ve been waiting for this documentary since I was a teenager. I was one of those kids who used to stay up...
View ArticleNew York Story: Joseph Gordon Levitt in “The Walk”
On September 26, the 53rd annual New York Festival opened with the world premiere of “The Walk.” You may have heard about the movie — there are advertisements everywhere, at least in New York. If not,...
View Article“Dear Evan Hansen” Steams to New York
Riding a head of steam generated by the acclaim for its world premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, “Dear Evan Hansen” will bow in New York at Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre, beginning March 23....
View ArticleBetween the Ancient and the Modern in Ivo van Hove’s “Antigone,” Starring...
In a recent essay for the New York Times, the novelist Tom McCarthy connected Greece’s recent economic woes to Greek tragedy. “At the basis of all economics is the practice of keeping one’s house in...
View Article“Tipping the Velvet” Mixes Forbidden Love With Aerial Ballet, Miley Cyrus
“This show contains scenes of a sexual nature.”So it says on the Lyric, Hammersmith, website. But you would need to have been living in total isolation not to have realized that, way in advance.I was...
View ArticleChildren’s Stories: “Everything is Copy” and “Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words”
Screening at the New York Film Festival are two documentaries about extraordinary women, both famous and both presented, in different manners, by their children. Nora Ephron is the subject of...
View ArticleJames Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and A Grateful, Forgiving Theater
There are few professions that are as forgiving — or as appreciative — of age as the theater. At 100, the legendary George Abbott directed and revised a Broadway revival of “Broadway.” Last April, at...
View ArticleThe Artist is Present in “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank”
Robert Frank doesn’t like interviews. Early in “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank,” Laura Israel’s new documentary about the artist premiering at the New York Film Festival on October 4, archival footage shows...
View ArticleLady Macbeth of Mtsensk & Farinelli and the King
Stalin was so sickened by the sex, violence and satire in Shostakovich’s opera ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’, that he ordered it to be pulled from the repertoire and condemned. Maybe he was right. A...
View ArticleReview: “The Father” – Kenneth Cranham on Knife-Edge of Memory
André’s adult daughter has strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes. Then she seems to have dark hair and hazel eyes. She’s taller too. She tells André that he’s living in her apartment, but he knows that...
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