Review: Charms and Chimeras in Wayne McGregor’s “Raven Girl” and Alastair...
The Royal Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s “Raven Girl” (2013), and Principal Character Artist and choreographer Alastair Marriott’s “Connectome” (2014), return to the Royal Opera House...
View ArticleThe 17th Jio MAMI Film Festival Announces Movie Lineup and New Plans for the...
The Jio MAMI film festival returns to Mumbai this year from October 29 to November 5, 2015. Besides roping in Kiran Rao as chairman, Anupama Chopra as the new festival director and Neeta Ambani as...
View ArticleMedea Drags Euripides Kicking and Screaming Into 2015 at Almeida: Review
Medea is one of the greatest roles in classical drama.How to convey someone whose life is in ruins? A wife whose husband has left her for another woman? A mother of two who gets revenge by absolutely...
View Article5 Most Bizarre Things in Patti Smith’s Memoir “M Train”
“M Train,” the new memoir from singer Patti Smith, is weird. The follow-up to her acclaimed 2010 memoir “Just Kids,” which detailed her early years in New York City and her friendship with the artist...
View ArticleDennis Hopper Plays “Dennis Hopper” in “The American Dreamer”
“The American Dreamer” (1971) is a portrait of Dennis Hopper at a crossroads. Filmed during the editing of “The Last Movie,” his directorial follow-up to the decade-defining “Easy Rider,” it shows the...
View ArticleTop 5 Shows at Dance Umbrella Festival 2015
The entire city of London becomes a stage with Dance Umbrella 2015 commencing on 15 October. It begins on a rooftop, and ends on 31 October in a park. Come rain or sunshine, Dance Umbrella 2015’s...
View Article5 Must See at Kyoto International Film & Arts Festival
It was in late 2013 that Osaka-based comedy giant Yoshimoto Kogyo announced that they were to re-launch the Kyoto Movie Festival as Kyoto International Film and Art Festival last year, with a theme of...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: “Jane B. par Agnes V,” “The Bus,” and More
“Jane B. par Agnes V” and “Kung-Fu Master!,” directed by Agnes Varda, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, opens October 16Two old films from Agnes Varda are making their U.S. debut in an under-the-radar screening...
View ArticleQ&A: “Razzle Dazzle” Author Michael Riedel on the Lunacy of Saving Broadway
In “Razzle Dazzle” — Michael Riedel’s brilliant new page-turner about how Broadway went from the Fabulous Invalid to a billion-dollar powerhouse — there is a compelling chapter on the tumultuous...
View ArticleThe Line Between Fact and Fiction Blurs in Miles Davis Biopic
I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty confident that in his autobiography, Miles Davis breaks the world record for using the word “motherfucker” the most times in a single piece of writing. It’s quite an...
View ArticleInterview: Opera Singer Nadine Benjamin
In 2005, Nadine Benjamin was working as a traders’ assistant in the City of London. She also dreamed of becoming an operatic soprano, and went to a vocal coach for advice. “You’ll never be an opera...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson Talks About Her Highly Personal Film “Heart of a Dog”
When Laurie Anderson was asked to make a film about her own life philosophy, she initially resisted. “I thought: I don’t have one, and if I had one I definitely wouldn’t want to put it in the shape of...
View ArticleAndrew Lloyd Webber Returns to His Roots With “School of Rock”
There’s been a lot of good buzz surrounding “School of Rock,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that begins previews on November 9 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical is an adaptation by Julian...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Kaori Momoi and Yoko Narahashi at Kyoto International Film Festival
The second Kyoto International Film and Art Festival brought together two female powerhouses of Japanese cinema on October 16 for back–to-back screenings. Actress Kaori Momoi and Director Yoko...
View ArticleTatsuya Nakadai Wins Toshiro Mifune Award at Kyoto International Film Festival
Tatsuya Nakadai took home the most prestigious prize at this year’s Kyoto International Film and Art Festival, winning the Toshiro Mifune Award for lifetime achievement as an actor. Now 82, and still...
View ArticleCan “Amazing Grace” Tap the Christian Market on the Road?
“Amazing Grace,” the musical about the conversion of John Newton from slave trader to abolitionist, will close on October 25, most likely at a loss of its entire $6.4 million investment. The show...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: “Van Gogh,” “Beasts of No Nation,” and...
“Van Gogh,” Museum of the Moving Image, October 25There are many great films — all of them, really — to see in the Museum of the Moving Image’s essential, full retrospective of the work of French...
View ArticleStar Soprano Saves Nightmare Opera in the ENO’s “La bohème”
Mimì and Rodolfo share a needle of heroin. Then they go to Café Momus, which turns out to be a nightmarish place where groups of odd children wear creepy masks. It could be, of course, that these...
View ArticleNew York’s Boldest Director Nabs Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo for “Othello”
Fresh off his Tony Award win for “Fun Home,” director Sam Gold is assaying a new frontier: Shakespeare — and he’s doing it with a vengeance. Next fall, his production of “Othello” will be presented at...
View ArticleSingapore Film Festival Promises “More Than Just Film” for 2015
Singapore’s longest running film event returns for a 26th edition this November. The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), founded in 1987, is the city’s largest, and this year promises “More...
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