Dorothy (Lea Michele) has just returned from Oz and her sidekicks are already in trouble again! Time in the magical land moves at a different speed than time in Kansas and as Dorothy is barely coming to terms with the destruction left behind by the t …Read more
When James Franco isn’t acting, directing, being an erudite student in multiple universities, insulting theater critics or coming up with new methods of self-promotion, he’s writing poetry and fiction. In 2010 he published a collection of short stori …Read more
How does one say no to a good old fashioned “body switch” comedy? The answer is you don’t and “Under My Skin” delivers. Written by the team of Prudence Fraser and Robert Sternin (of “The Nanny” fame), the play opens at the offices of big health insur …Read more
In 1934, renowned documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty set out to the Aran Islands, just off the Irish coast, to shoot his docudrama “Man of Aran” in which he shows fishermen and farmers performing mundane routines. Yet few filmmakers were as sly …Read more
Lyndon B. Johnson (Bryan Cranston) calls himself an “accidental President” several times during the first act of Robert Schenkkan’s “All The Way”, and it seems as if his only purpose, and that of the play, is to justify his unexpected ascent into pow …Read more
Nine-year-old Junior (Samuel Lange) wants nothing more than to have his hair straightened for his school picture, but his mother Marta (Samantha Castillo) sees this is a sign of defiance. While the boy recurs to rudimentary methods to get rid of his …Read more
Robin Williams gives one of his finest performances in years in Dito Montiel’s “Boulevard” which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. In the film he plays Nolan, a bank employee who comes to the sudden realization that he’s unhappy with almos …Read more
The energy of legendary underground filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Robert Downey Sr. thrives with new life in director Andrew T. Betzer’s “Young Bodies Heal Quickly”, in which two nameless brothers (Gabriel Croft plays the Older, Hale Lytle the Yo …Read more
In “Tomorrow We Disappear” (read our review here), the Brooklyn-based team of Adam M. Weber and Jim Goldblum travel all the way to India to introduce us to the Kathputli colony, a suburb outside of Delhi populated by magicians, acrobats and street ar …Read more
In “Garnet’s Gold”, director Ed Perkins takes us on a journey to the Scottish highlands as he and his subject, Garnet Frost, try to find a long lost treasure missing since 1745. Two decades before, Frost encountered a near death experience in the ver …Read more
