In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can be as unreliable and sensitive as the dysfunctional basement dwelling family me …Read more
“I wasn’t cut out for the undertaking business,” says singing undertaker Mossey Burke, who, having reluctantly inherited his father’s line of work, yearns for a better suited career in the hotel or catering industry. Burke regales us with tales of a …Read more
At Lazarus House in County Mayo, the path of Dublin ex-con Larry (Donal O’Kelly), on one last job to steal a statue of the Virgin Mary, crosses with Sister Martha (Sorcha Fox), a Scottish nun. A roll of film, brought with her from Nigeria on a clande …Read more
Writer, philosopher and teacher Alain LeRoy Locke, a high-profile affiliate of the Harlem Renaissance, said of it in 1926 that, “Negro life is seizing its first chance for group expression and self-determination.” He wasn’t wrong. During the interw …Read more
Among its many genres, the New York International Fringe Festival has showcased enough personal stories to represent the change in politics, society and attitudes that have taken place throughout its sturdy 19-years-and-counting run. Amid this year’s …Read more
A journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crimes. Their story is challenged by a survivor and dismissed by …Read more
Three contemplative individuals each inhabit their respective territory inside an art gallery. Without interacting, the boundaries between them are marked by immediate character distinctions and a background of appropriately abstract canvasses. Iren …Read more
Marga Gomez is indecent. And who could blame her? Thumbing through all those Legion of Decency magazines in her formative years, searching for movies condemned by the US Catholic Church, to titillate, inform, identify and one day discover, was bound …Read more
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That voice. Those eyes. The impenetrable stare. Bette Davis was much more than a talented actress with a memorable on-screen presence. During a time when female casting meant measuring little m …Read more
An elderly woman, Ada, grieves for her twin sister Ava in the remote New England lighthouse they once shared, but then a visit to the carnival creates a ghostly opportunity for a reunion as well as a journey through memory and mourning. ADA/AVA plays …Read more
