After the unexpected death of his father, medical student Iddrisu (Jacob Ayanaba) is forced to return to his village in order to see that his family will survive. They live in the Ghanaian village of Nakom, which is also the name of the film by Kelly …Read more

Lyricist Sheldon Harnick is a bona fide Broadway legend, having created over a dozen musicals, many of which (particularly his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock) became part of the theatrical canon. He is also one of the rare writers who was aw …Read more

The central character in Olivier Letellier’s Oh Boy!, a young man by the name of Barthélémy, finds himself suddenly becoming father figure to three recently orphaned children, who will force him to leave behind his frivolous ways and dare him to grow …Read more

Emma Rozanski’s Papagajka, takes place in a quiet neighborhood in Sarajevo, where the mysterious Tasya (Susanna Cappellaro) appears one day, and subtly invades the life of the reclusive Damir (Adnan Omerovic). The film’s dreamlike quality and its dar …Read more

New Directors/New Films celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2016, with an impressive roster that includes films from Brazil, Mexico, China, Portugal, Japan, and the very first entry from Ghana to have played at the Berlin Film Festival. As usual, the …Read more

The New York Pops took the stage of Carnegie Hall on March 11, 2016, to put on what might very well be the best of their shows this reviewer has seen. A spectacular celebration of Broadway since the 1970s called 42nd on 57th: Broadway Today. The orch …Read more

There is usually a moment in all of Anna Ziegler’s plays where you, as an audience member, get the sense that the feelings onstage (or on the page if you’re reading them) had never been felt before. Whether it’s the teenagers in Life Science coming t …Read more

From March 11-April 1, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a retrospective of production designer Jack Fisk’s most iconic works. The films will be part of the museum’s See It Big! Series, which highlights the importance “cinematic experiences …Read more

Thanks to his outspokenness and his idea of criticism as a democratic artform, Jonathan Gold has become one of the world’s most beloved food critics. He is the subject of Laura Gabbert’s documentary City of Gold, an impressionistic portrait of the Pu …Read more

A poem by Leigh Hunt, at the center of Anna Ziegler’s Boy, brings up one of the playwright’s recurring themes: the passing of time and the seemingly fruitless endeavor that is remembering, “Jenny kiss’d me when we met Jumping from the chair she sat i …Read more