Whether she’s playing one character or four, Geneva Carr always brings a sense of in-the-moment earthiness to the stage. She broke through in Robert Askins’ Hand to God, for which she was rightfully nominated for the Best Actress Tony, as the torment …Read more
Girls meet boys, girls ask boys to join them for a sex party, love and other dilemmas ensue. In Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story, Eva Husson’s deliciously confident feature debut, the traditional rules of film romance are swapped for something much mor …Read more
For the second consecutive year, audiences will get to see the best work from up and coming choreographers in Jersey (New) Moves! Emerging Choreographers at NJPAC. The initiative by Jersey Moves! Festival of Dance pairs young choreographers with expe …Read more
In 2015, Lorenzo Vigas became the first Latin American filmmaker to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his astonishing feature length debut From Afar. An elegant, sparse tale which focuses on two men from very different worlds who be …Read more
In Margarita with a Straw, Kalki Koechlin delivers one of her most complex performances yet, as Laila, a teenage girl with cerebral palsy who leaves her native India to pursue a career in New York City. But the film is nothing like what that descript …Read more
Waiting to meet Michael Grandage at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City I took a moment to examine the strange artifacts that hung from the cavernous walls of the lobby. Everything from medicine bottles, to whale’s teeth, all of which seemed to …Read more
Nick Jonas makes his feature film debut in Careful What You Wish For, a steamy thriller that sees him play a young man who becomes involved in a tempestuous relationship with his neighbor’s (Dermot Mulroney) wife, Lena (Isabel Lucas) over the course …Read more
If you’ve ever wondered why hourglasses are filled with sand, Gregory S. Moss’ Indian Summer might just have an answer for you. Not that the play (at Playwrights Horizons through June 26) has anything to do with a history of the device, at least not …Read more
Paul Wesley may be famous for facing supernatural beings in The CW’s The Vampire Diaries, but in William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, he is battling something much more horrific: his character, Flynt, is trying to get over the death of his wife by …Read more
Cherchez La Femme is accurately described in its program as “a musical excuse”, which is fair because that’s exactly what it is. Kid Creole himself, August Darnell, in collaboration with Vivien Goldman, created the book for a musical that revolves en …Read more