Q&A: "Head of Passes" Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney
At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Head of Passes,” Shelah Reynolds has it all figured out. Beset with a terminal illness, the Southern matriarch is determined to set everything right...
View ArticleArtist Cheng Ran Presents 9-Hour Film Epic at Chi Art Space
Chi Art Space in Hong Kong is screening Cheng Ran’s nine-hour film “In Course of the Miraculous” (2015) as part of a solo show of the Chinese contemporary artist’s film and video work.The film, created...
View ArticleAthens & Epidaurus Festival Bizarrely Filled with Belgian Dance by Jan Fabre
Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre has accepted the invitation by the Greek Ministry of Culture & Sports to head the annual Athens & Epidaurus (International) Festival as Artistic...
View ArticleRolling Stones Get Gritty, Geeky and Grumpy at Mankowitz Show in London
London is about to go Rolling Stones crazy. Gered Mankowitz, the man who knew the Stones best, is opening “Off the Hook”, displaying his best images at Snap Galleries and a limited-edition book...
View ArticleREVIEW: Guns, Gangs and Grime in ‘I Capuleti e i Montecchi’
Opera in a concrete basement... for plenty of people that sounds as much fun as a wet mattress made from old jellyfish. But if Pop-Up Opera’s raw and powerful staging of “I Capuleti e i Montecchi”...
View ArticleQ&A With Liz Garbus: ‘Nothing Left Unsaid’ Looks at Gloria Vanderbilt and Her...
A documentary entitled “Nothing Left Unsaid” of course begs the question: What, indeed, is left unsaid? Even Gloria Vanderbilt and her son, CNN host Anderson Cooper, who’ve led public lives from the...
View Article6 Must-See Concerts in April: Mariah Carey, Chvrches and More
Mariah Carey, UB40 and Gregory Porter return. Bellowhead says farewell. Chvrches point to the future; Gregory Porter plays at the Royal Albert Hall and elsewhere. Muse continues its Drones tour, and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Glenn Not Quite Close Enough In ‘Sunset Boulevard’ at ENO
“Alright, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up,” says the deranged movie actress Norma Desmond at the end of the film “Sunset Boulevard”. The camera then gets tighter and tighter on her face, with...
View Article'Wicked' Becomes the Fastest in History to Join the Billion-Dollar Club
If you want to know why film and record companies are eager to develop their catalogues into Broadway musicals, look no further than the recent announcement that “Wicked,” produced and developed by...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: 'No Home Movie,''Everybody Wants...
“No Home Movie,” directed by Chantal Akerman, BAM, through April 14One of the saddest things about the release of “No Home Movie,” the last film made by Chantal Akerman, along with a city-wide...
View ArticleWith ‘Tapestry’ Festival, a Weekend of Sacred Music on the Bay
Visitors to Singapore’s Esplanade arts center next weekend will have their choice of meditation, “mugham,” and everything in between, as the annual festival “A Tapestry of Sacred Music” takes over the...
View ArticleFive Films to See at the 2016 Dallas Film Festival
At the tenth annual Dallas International Film Festival (April 14-24), a total of 113 films representing 31 countries will be screened for American audiences. Below are the five most notable films...
View ArticleApocalyptic Astronauts Break Rules in Alistair McDowall’s New Play 'X'
The hopes have been cosmic for “X,” the new play by rising star Alistair McDowell. This is apt when the award-winning 28-year-old’s latest, premiering at London’s Royal Court, is set on Pluto,...
View Article‘Voilah!’ 2016 Brings French Film, Food, and Flying Kites to Singapore
Institut Français has announced the lineup of the 2016 edition of their “Voilah!” festival, bringing French film, food and far more to Singapore. Running from April 15 to May 31, “Voilah!” features...
View ArticleReview: Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ Returns to Cinemas for 30th Anniversary
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its release in the UK, Akira Kurosawa’s last epic ‘Ran’ returns to cinemas, this time restored in 4K. Anniversary or no anniversary, this was a film begging to be...
View ArticleIn ‘Duilian,’ Wu Tsang Discovers a Queer Revolutionary
Chinese revolutionary icon Qiu Jin is getting a fresh look at Hong Kong’s Spring Workshop beginning this week, with the world premiere of a new short film from multimedia artist and activist Wu...
View ArticleInterview: Goh Boon Teck on Staging ‘Kumarajiva’
The story of the legendary fourth-century Buddhist scholar and translator Kumarajiva is coming to Singapore’s Victoria Theatre this May through a collaboration between the theater company Toy Factory...
View ArticleThe Truth is Out There: “Art of the Real” at Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Art of the Real,” the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual series dedicated to work that expands the definition of documentary film, is, by its very nature, constantly moving backward and forward....
View ArticleREVIEW: Blood, Bondage, and Boos in ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Royal Opera
The homicidal bondage is amusing. Some other fairly explicit sex, although a bit anatomically unconvincing, also serves the plot. As for the buckets of blood, well, you can’t have “Lucia di Lammermoor”...
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