'Shuffle Along' and 'The Humans' Receive Top Prizes from the New York Drama...
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named “Shuffle Along” the best new musical of the season, while honoring as Stephen Karam’s “The Humans” as the best play. The former is George C. Wolfe’s...
View ArticleReview: Liam Scarlett’s Ballet ‘Frankenstein”’ at the Royal Opera House
Liam Scarlett’s debut, full-length ballet, “Frankenstein,” a co-production with San Francisco Ballet for The Royal Ballet, proved to be as much a masterpiece as Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel of the same...
View ArticleWhat to Expect at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival hasn’t even officially started — it opens on May 11 with Woody Allen’s “Café Society,” screening out of competition — and it’s already dominating the perpetually clogged...
View ArticleNew York Indian Film Fest Opens With 'Let’s Dance to The Rhythm'
The 16th edition of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) opened on Saturday night at Skirball Center for Performing Arts with the film Let’s Dance to the Rhythm, also the New York premiere of the...
View ArticleTake That, Hollywood! Tony Nominations Celebrate Diversity
In a year when the Motion Picture Academy was widely excoriated for the exclusion of people of color among the ranks of Oscar nominees, the Tony nominating committee showed how to be inclusive. In the...
View ArticleRadiohead Crafts Brutal Beauty on “A Moon Shaped Pool”: Review
Brutal and beautiful; serene and scary, Radiohead’s album “A Moon Shaped Pool” is the band’s finest since the turn of the Millennium.Those who have caught the British group live – or solo sets by Thom...
View Article65 Organizations Defunded in the Worst Australian Arts Funding Cuts in a...
The National Association for the Visual Arts is among the 62 Australian arts organizations that have lost core funding, as a consequence of funding cuts to the arts that have been described as “the...
View ArticleQ&A: Filmmaker Terrence Davies On ‘Sunset Song’
Terrence Davies is busier than ever. It has been four years since we’ve had a film from the 70-year-old British filmmaker, and that’s a relatively short period of time considering that, in the past,...
View ArticleReview: Sex, Death, and Urinal Cakes are the Royal Opera’s New ‘Pleasure’
Opera is great at dealing with the big themes - love, sex, death, that sort of thing. Throw in a lively dose of toilet cleaning, and you’ve got Mark Simpson’s “Pleasure”.Soprano Lesley Garrett plays...
View ArticleWelcome to the Class War: “Money Monster” and “High-Rise”
“Money Monster” and “High-Rise,” both of which are in theaters on May 13, are completely different movies. The former is a star-studded vehicle, directed by Jodie Foster and starring George Clooney and...
View ArticleCannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s 'The Student'
Russian writer-director Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Student (Uchenik),” screening in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, is a satirical black comedy hell-bent on demonstrating that, at the core of...
View ArticleGlenn Branca Brings the Noise to the Red Bull Music Academy
Glenn Branca’s performances are known for being loud — very loud. The last time his ensemble performed his “Symphony No. 12,” in 2000 at the Anchorage, a now shuttered venue located at the Brooklyn...
View ArticleAt Cannes, Female Directors Favored for Top Prize
The midway point of the Cannes Film Festival is almost here, and among the critics, a consensus seems to be forming that Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” and Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” two of the...
View ArticleRock Stars Pay Homage to Unseen Andy Warhol Films in London
With the amount of Andy Warhol exhibitions constantly being held around the world, it is easy to think that you have seen all there is of the best-known Pop Artist.After all, if you’ve seen one...
View ArticleQ&A: Architect and Tony Nominee David Rockwell
David Rockwell, one of the world’s leading architects, feels most at home in the theater. Chalk that up to his mother, Joanne, who was a vaudeville dancer and choreographer who established a community...
View ArticleBollywood Meets Cannes with Aishwarya Rai’s ‘Sarbjit’
Bollywood may still be producing more films than Hollywood each year, but still few gain world attention at major international film festivals, something actress Aishwarya Rai has been trying to change...
View ArticleThe Most Interesting Thing About Anthony Weiner Doc is Huma Abedin
The most interesting thing about “Weiner,” a new documentary about former New York congressman Anthony Weiner that opens on May 20 at the IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza in New York, is on the film’s...
View ArticleJean-Michel Jarre on His Most Ambitious Album – Peaches to Edward Snowden
Jean-Michel Jarre says “Electronica 2,” just out, is the culmination of his most ambitious project, spread over five years. The French musician, who has sold 80 million records starting with “Oxygene”...
View ArticleStar Wars Auction from “Grandfather of Modern Make-up Design”
Filming for the 8th installment in the Star Wars franchise kicked off earlier this year in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and June 8 fans of the series will be able to get their hands on some unique Star Wars...
View ArticleGray Areas: Documentary Filmmaker Peter Nicks on His Oakland Trilogy
In his 2012 documentary “The Waiting Room,” the independent filmmaker Peter Nicks turned his attention to a single hospital emergency room in Oakland, California. An observational polemic, the film was...
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