INTERVIEW: Soprano Sophie Bevan on Murder, Incest and Sludge
For her latest role, soprano Sophie Bevan is covered in thick, gooey, red sludge. “It represents destiny,” she says cheerfully. “You can’t escape it. Everyone gets covered in it by the end.” It sounds...
View ArticleWith ‘The Nice Guys,’ ‘Lethal Weapon’ Writer Shane Black is Back: Do We...
“The Nice Guys,” written and directed by Shane Black, has been touted as the “superhero antidote we all need.” A Los Angeles detective movie set in the 1970s, it stars Ryan Gosling as a perpetually...
View ArticleDirector Bi Gan On His Stunning Debut, ‘Kaili Blues’
The 26-year-old writer and director Bi Gan’s debut feature, “Kaili Blues,” which opens at Metrograph in New York City on May 20, is an imprecise, sui generis mystery filmed in China’s Guizhou province...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sri Lankan Director Inspired by David Bowie for “Alone in a Valley”
Sri Lankan director Boodee Keerthisena intentionally aims to confuse audiences with his latest work “Alone in a Valley.” So much as that the audience at Okinawa International Movie Festival screening...
View ArticleThe State of the Tony Race: Best Actress in a Drama
Despite the perpetual success of “Hamilton,” a name you will hear a lot when the Tony Awards are doled out on June 12, there will still be more than enough suspense in the tightly competitive acting...
View ArticleCannes Review: Stèphanie Di Giusto’s 'The Dancer'
“The Dancer” (“La Danseuse”), French writer-director Stèphanie Di Giusto’s feature debuet, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. It did not win any Palmarès, and...
View ArticleThe Tight Tony Race for Best Actor in a Play
After half-century on Broadway, Frank Langella has received his seventh Tony nomination for a heartrending performance as a man disintegrating into senility in “The Father,” while the British actor...
View ArticleWhen Bob Dylan Met Andy Warhol
In either July of 1965 or January of 1966, depending of the source, Bob Dylan walked into The Factory, Andy Warhol’s studio, accompanied by a film crew. The contentious meeting that followed would go...
View ArticleThe Obies Predict Broadway’s Bright Future
The theater season is now awash in awards, some silly and some significant. Among the latter are the Obies, created in 1955 by the Village Voice, to honor Off-Broadway. They were announced on Monday,...
View Article7 Most Jaw-Dropping Music Videos of 2016 So Far
Coldplay’s “Up & Up” – arguably more inventive than the music – is just the latest in a run of jaw-dropping videos this year.The surreal video, shot through with the band’s environmental concerns,...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: ‘Chevalier,’ ‘Love & Friendship,’ and More
“Chevalier” (2015), directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Film Society of Lincoln Center, IFC Center, opens May 27Fans of Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Attenberg” (2010) have been eagerly...
View ArticleBroadway Season Concludes Another Record-Breaking Run
Powered by the thrust engines of a rocket known as “Hamilton,” Broadway ended the current season on an all-time high in attendance and ticket sales. According to figures released by the Broadway League...
View ArticleVIDEO: Yoko Narahashi Pays Tribute to Playwright Masayuki Imai with “Hold My...
Yoko Narahashi, Japan’s “Gatekeeper to Hollywood,” directed her first feature back in 1995, an adaptation of the Masayuki Imai play “Hold My Hand.” Two decades later, she revealed at the 2015 Kyoto...
View ArticleVIDEO: Artists Combine for “No Body” at Sadler’s Wells
At a time when dance inhabits museums and galleries more than ever, the world premiere of “No Body” will occupy the entire building of Sadler’s Wells Theatre with fragments which a performance...
View ArticleTony Nomination Fallout: “American Psycho” Will Close on June 5
Graced with only two Tony nominations (for lighting and sets), “American Psycho” will be one of the most high-profiled flops of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. The stylish $14-million musical, based on...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sri Lankan Director Inspired by David Bowie for “Alone in a Valley”
Sri Lankan director Boodee Keerthisena intentionally aims to confuse audiences with his latest work “Alone in a Valley.” So much as that the audience at Okinawa International Movie Festival screening...
View ArticleA 2016 Summer Festival Guide for European Opera Lovers
European opera festivals this year offer something to suit every taste. New works take a bow, older ones get a fresh look, and dependable warhorses show they can still light up the house. So whether...
View ArticleJude Law Plays a Homicidal Adulterer in Ivo van Hove's “Obsession”
James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” has never been bettered as a noir tale of murder and lust. So much so that there have been seven film adaptations of the 1930s novel, as well as two plays,...
View ArticleTony Conrad’s Open-Ended Oeuvre
Ahead of a retrospective of his work at Anthology Film Archives in 2005, the artist and musician Tony Conrad, in conversation with Whitney Museum curator Jay Sanders for Bomb Magazine, spoke of looking...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: “Kamikaze ’89,” “The Fits,” and More
“Kamikaze ’89” (1982), directed by Wolf Gremm, Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens on June 3Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder performed his last screen role in this adaptation, released the year he passed...
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