Whenever a show gets a Broadway revival, one has to wonder why exactly it is being revived. What does the show contribute to a new generation of theatergoers? What does it say about the time when it was made and how does that come into play in our ti …Read more
For more than thirty years, New Directors/New Films has brought New Yorkers exciting new works from once-little-known directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Linklater, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Wim Wenders. Recent offerings have included accla …Read more
The Roundabout Theatre revival of On the Twentieth Century is the epitome of the adage “they don’t make them like they used to”, from the moment you take your seat in the American Airlines Theatre and are faced with an imposing metal-like curtain, br …Read more
Sutton Foster is so generous a performer that she celebrated her upcoming birthday by giving the audience a present. The night of March 13, 2015, as she joined The New York Pops to make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall, she announced at one point she …Read more
The fact that Georg Büchner never completed Woyzeck has given other artists the liberty to use the premise as a template to explore their own particular obsessions, with some choosing to “respect” the piece and adhering to what they think the author’ …Read more
Despite of the sheer optimism evoked by her name, Sunny (Jennifer Lim), the heroine in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness has a life that’s anything but. Born to a family of peasants in the People’s Republic of China, as a newborn …Read more
The passions and desires in Benoît Jacquot’s Three Hearts are so overpowering and grand, that one can almost reach out to the screen and touch them! The unabashedly romantic, adult drama begins in the city of Valence, where Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) a …Read more
The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The two women have clashed throughout their entire lives, and illness doesn’t seem t …Read more
As fans prepare to bid Mad Men farewell (the last seven episodes of the show begin to air in April), the magicians at the Museum of the Moving Image have put together a breathtaking exhibition that celebrates the show’s achievements, Matthew Weiner’s …Read more
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be headlining her first solo show at Carnegie Hall on March 13. The show, titled One Night Only: Sutton Foster, will feature the New York Pops under the conduction of Steven Reineke and will see Ms. Foste …Read more
