Entering Ars Nova for a performance of The Wildness: Sky-Pony’s Rock Fairy Tale, has all the makings of an underground rock show, rather than a traditional piece of musical theatre. Audience members are handed colored pieces of fabric that will then …Read more
In You’re Killing Me, absent minded internet celebrity George (Jeffery Self) falls for the handsome but mysterious Joe (Matthew McKelligon) who seems devoted to him to the point that he would kill to spend the rest of his life together. “Kill” is the …Read more
Imagine you find the perfect guy to date, he’s handsome, attentive, funny and pretty much seems to have it all, but he also happens to be a serial killer. That is what happens in You’re Killing Me, a horror/rom-com hybrid starring Matthew McKelligon …Read more
The term meta seems to have been invented to describe Jane B. Par Agnès V. and Kung-Fu Master!, two works by auteur Agnès Varda that not only engage in an indirect conversation with the audience and their knowledge of the lives of Jane Birkin and Var …Read more
Writer/director Chloé Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me is set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and focuses on the lives of the teenagers who inhabit it. Particularly the Winters children, Johnny (John Reddy) who wants to leave …Read more
From March 4-10, Film Forum will present a 4K restoration of Yasujiro Ozu’s postwar classic Late Spring, the 1949 film centers on the relationship between Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her widower father Shukichi (Chishū Ryū), an absent minded professor …Read more
Familiar opens in a set that looks very much like the setting of countless contemporary Broandway and Off-Broadway dramas, that is, an upper middle class living room, complete with leather couches, rugs, bottles of liquor and an HD television set han …Read more
From Bridget Jones to Bollywood, the influence of Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice is undeniable, and yet we don’t have an ultimate musical theatre adaptation! This might change with Lawrence Rush’s take on the novel, which he presented in c …Read more
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to The Film Society of Lincoln Center with new films by Philippe Faucon, Nicolas Pariser, Julie Delpy, Eva Husson, Catherine Corsini, and many other established auteurs, as well as rising talents. The festival, …Read more
First, let’s get something out of the way: Straight is finely acted by Jake Epstein, Thomas Sullivan and especially Jenna Gavigan. The three play Boston residents entangled in an unorthodox love triangle; oft-stressed banker Ben (Epstein) is in a rel …Read more
