1,037 stories by "Jk Clarke"
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Cost of Living, Martyna Majok's (Sanctuary City) sometimes touching and funny dramedy, which premiered in 2017 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, was prod…
By Carole di Tosti . . . For her thrilling, erotic and clever Stars at Noon, renowned filmmaker Claire Denis was jointly awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2022. The romantic spy…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Directors Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji, a husband-and-wife team from Beijing, China, are known for creating films about families who must give up unity and togetherness…
Review by Alix Cohen . . . Some things are a given. Tomorrow the sun will come up. Wheels are round. Apples crunch. And Catherine Russell delivers. Once again the vocalist and her fine b…
By Carole di Tosti . . . In Aftersun, writer/director Charlotte Wells infuses her debut feature with cinematic beauty and fragility. It is a tone poem of layered memory as daughter Sophi…
By Carole di Tosti . . . French documentarian Alice Diop applies her well-honed skills to reconfigure the true story of an infanticide by spinning it into her debut fictional narrative S…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . No one can accuse Victor I. Cazares of having nothing to say. In american (tele)visions, now premiering at New York Theater Workshop in a co-production with Theat…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Once again, the New York Film Festival has an incredible slate of films created by global filmmakers who have been selected to present their work during the two-…
By Marilyn Lester . . . What hasn't Tony Danza done? He's been a prize fighter; an actor on stage, film and television; a high school teacher; a talk show host; an author; a recording ar…
By Ron Fassler . . . Phillip Officer, a performer with strong ties to New York City's cabaret world, returned last night"after a long absence"to a warm and inviting crowd at Birdland. Th…
By Carole di Tosti . . . The truth is not easy knowing. Indeed, human beings have infinite capacity to ignore things that are not convenient. The words are from the New York premiere of …
By Ron Fassler . . . In Shakespeare's Hamlet, it is the verbose Polonius who offers the immortal advice that "brevity is the soul of wit." It gets a laugh in any good production of the p…
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In a ritual-based world where theater is a healing practice, Four Saints in Three Acts might be considered a whirly, spiritual pathway, dense with repetition.…
By Ron Fassler . . . Jane Krakowski joined Seth Rudetsky on the stage of The Town Hall Monday evening for the latest in his series of informal 90-minute talks with Broadway show folk. Kr…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Raising children is an act of love, sacrifice and emotional expiation. How much more so is this when a child is born with a physical condition that requires 24/7…
By JK Clarke . . . At the end of the summer of 2017, the Public Theater chose to close out a high-voltage summer with a civic-minded celebration of community and culture with a musical i…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Theater returned to town last year after its extended postponement stemming from the pandemic, but that doesn't mean things were back to normal. Except for a ti…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Have you heard the one about the two old Jews sitting around kvetching about life, death, and the hereafter? The one where one of them, sitting in the desert du…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Musical theater is usually thought of as lighthearted and escapist, but the genre can also point to darker, even horrific themes, including madness and murder. …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Aeschylus' The Oresteia, the only extant ancient Greek tragic trilogy, first produced in 458 BC, has been radically adapted by British director Robert Icke into…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 2013, a magnificently cheesy show called Disaster! had 'em peeing in the aisles when it opened at a dinky Off-Broadway venue. A jukebox musical parody of 197…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The publication in 2003 of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, a hugely successful novel dealing with contemporary Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban, couldn't …
By Myra Chanin . . . time stops"the title should be in all-caps followed by a queue of !!!s"which recently premiered at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse would have filled Marshall E. "Do…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . There's something odd going on at the St. James Theatre, where the newest revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine 1987 fairytale musical, Into the Woods op…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . How's this for a dramatic premise? A depressed, retiring young woman falls in love with a dashing, fictional character who reciprocates by stepping out of his s…
