Top 10 Summer Rock Festivals Worldwide: Governors Ball to Glastonbury
The Governors Ball this weekend in New York comes as 2016’s summer festival season launches into high gear.Fans at California’s Coachella in April, always the first big event, got a hint of what to...
View ArticleBarbara Streisand Returns to the Tony Awards in a Bid to Boost Ratings
Barbra Streisand just signed on to present an award at the Tony Awards ceremony, to be televised on CBS on June 12, and you can bet the category won’t be best lighting design. Though it wasn’t...
View ArticleA Product of Our Own Creation — “OJ: Made in America”
“OJ: Made in America,” despite a running time of just under eight hours, is actually the more minimalist of recent OJ Simpson portrayals. The series — the latest entry in ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary...
View ArticleOpinion: Is the New ‘Top Gear’ Just Revving Up?
British car show ‘Top Gear’ returned last week, over a year after long-running host Jeremy Clarkson was dropped for one-too many controversial incidents, on-screen and off. Taking over a show that new...
View ArticleVIDEO: Kaori Momoi on Playing an Aging L.A. Prostitute in ‘Hee’
No rehearsal, no practice, and no re-takes – Japanese actress Kaori Momoi took a new approach as director and lead actor for her latest work. Revealed as her second directorial effort, “火 Hee” was...
View ArticleWhen Muhammad Ali Made His Broadway Musical Debut
When “Buck White,” a musical by Oscar Brown, Jr. and produced by Zev Buffman, opened on Broadway in December of 1969, there were picketers protesting outside the theater while the mood inside was tense...
View Article`David Bowie Is,' Documentary Movie of V&A Show, Set for Comeback
One of the rarest David Bowie films is set for a comeback, six months after the star’s death.“David Bowie Is,” a documentary based on the blockbuster 2013 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
View ArticleVIDEO: US Military Rape Case in Okinawa Explored in “Cocktail Party”
The Okinawa International Movie Festival has prided itself from the start as a community-based film event, each year striving to involve the farthest reaches of the island chain. But having been...
View ArticlePaul Simon Gets Locked Out, Ponders Heaven on ‘Stranger to Stranger’: Review
While the problems of security onstage can be frustrating, they inspired one of the finest tracks on Paul Simon’s new album, “Stranger to Stranger,” his first in five years. “Wristband” says so much in...
View ArticleState of the Tony Race: Can Cynthia Erivo of “The Color Purple” Break a...
Tony voters like to make history. They did so in 2001 when they garlanded “The Producers” with a record-breaking twelve awards. They did so again in 2014 when they gave a sixth Tony Award to Audra...
View ArticleYvonne Rainer Takes the Stage in 'The Concept of Dust'
Anytime Yvonne Rainer takes the stage, it’s a momentous occasion. One of the pioneers of conceptual and minimalist choreography in the 1960s, Rainer, now 81 years old, rarely dances any more. In her...
View Article‘Call Her Applebroog,’ Beth B’s Film About Her Mother, Ida Applebroog
The first two times the artist Ida Applebroog saw the documentary about her life and work, she couldn’t remember anything she had just seen. “Watching yourself for 70 minutes on screen as the sole...
View Article100 Drones Dance like Fireflies in the Sky for Vivid Sydney
On Wednesday night, 100 drones took to the sky to perform a synchronized “ballet” to live music played by the Sydney Youth Orchestra.After a coordinated ascent to 105 meters, the 100 LED-equipped...
View ArticleThe Tony Award That Lin-Manuel Miranda Probably Wants to Lose
According to the pundits, the Tony Award for best actor in a musical will go to “Hamilton” when Broadway’s highest honors are announced on June 12. Indeed, most of the special, hosted by James Corden,...
View ArticleRobert Plant Cancels, Refugees Welcomed, at London's Meltdown Festival
The Meltdown Festival kicks off today, for the 23rd time with its unique approach of having a celebrated musician curate proceedings. This year the reigns have been handed over to Guy Garvey of rock...
View ArticleThe Varieties of Violence at BAMcinemaFest 2016
In 2012 two events just shy of five months apart illuminated the seemingly random and reasonless violence endemic in America. On July 20, James Eagan Holmes walked into a Century 16 movie theater in...
View ArticleREVIEW: Beautiful, Bestial, and Bonkers: ‘Iris’ at Opera Holland Park
The score is lavish and sumptuous, the playing gorgeous, the singing excellent. So what makes “Iris” the most bonkers show ever put on at Opera Holland Park?Mascagni’s rarely-staged 1898 opera tells...
View ArticleVIDEO: Live From New Orleans: Rock, Blues, and Cajun Zydeco
You can usually tell where you’re going by the people on your plane. Sure enough, French Creole speakers, Jazz Fest t-shirts and guitars in overhead bins signaled loud and clear: this JetBlue Airbus...
View ArticleThe 70th Annual Tony Awards Celebrate “Hamilton” and Diversity
The enormity of the mass murders in Orlando at a bar frequented by LBGTQ community — “a cornerstone of the theater” as someone described them — cast a shadow over the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: ‘My Mother Buys Condoms’ – Ivan Heng and Lok Meng Chue at...
As previously reported by ARTINFO, the Singapore Theatre Festival returns to the LaSalle College of the Arts for its fifth edition, which will run June 30-July 24 and feature eight new plays,...
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