… opposites attract … This movie is a delight. The Intouchables is about a hugely rich French man who became paraplegic in an accident and hires against the odds a big Black man original…
Man and Superman is a totally delightful evening of theater that lifts you from yourself with enjoyment and -- thinking about it after -- reminds you of what theater is all about. It couldn'…
Don't Dress for Dinner -- and don't see this show either. I went because I read somewhere it was really funny. It is, for about ten minutes. But the rest is an uninspired cliche -- though we…
End of the Rainbow tells the story of the last weeks of Judy Garland's Life. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, and debt ridden, she's spiraling downward -- but her personality, on and off-stage…
Joan Miro, large blue stained glass at Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France, detail The wild flowers are yellow and purple and the hills are terraced with olives, and amidst it is w…
Tribes is a cleverly written, witty and engaging play about a "problem." The surface problem involves deafness. A young man who is deaf and a young woman who is going that way fall in love. …
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a tense, character driven play that demands great acting and this excellent production provides it: Kim Martin-Cotton is as fine an actress as I've seen anywher…
Seeing War Horse in its current production is a powerful experience -- the kind one has to be glad one had and feel concerned for everyone who hasn't had the chance. "You must see it" I have…
While watching Beyond the Horizon, I was often gripped by the strong conflicts in individual scenes. Yet, the play came across as less than the sum of the parts. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Pri…
The three early one-act plays by O'Neill are moving and naturalistic, not melodramatic as I've seen them called elsewhere. In order to find this out, though, one has to look through this pro…
Denis O'Hare gives a magnificent performance as "The Poet", a bard transported through time from ancient Greece to today, picking up our style and our way of speaking to tell us the story of…
The Time of Your Life is a classic American play. It's terrific, wonderful, rich in comedy, music, dance, vivid characters, feeling, humanity -- all that and it has a great sense of place an…
The conflict in Galileo is iconic: freedom of ideas vs. censorship. Brecht peppers his play and his character of Galileo (1564-1642 ) with some Marxist views which are anachronistic but the …
... Who wears the suit ?.... Set in South Africa in 1961, during apartheid, Blood Knot tells the story of two brothers, one who looks White and the other Black. They're sons of one black mot…
Allison Buck as Tekmessa and Grant Harreison as Ajax, photo Laura June Kirsch, courtesy Flea Theater If you're lucky enough to see These Seven Sicknesses, you're in for a rich adventure. It'…
... pre-vintage Shaw ... Shaw's early play, The Philanderer of 1893, is a romantic comedy that's as focused on the ideas of Henrik Ibsen as it is on love, and with good reason: for Shaw idea…
... artistic directors ... Ellen Stewart, the astoundingly brave and brilliant founder of La MaMa theater in NYC's East Village, died just about a year ago, Jan 13, 2011. Since, from the tim…
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak, 1863, oil on canvas, 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. 186.7 x 306.7 cm (for other paintings, full captions with dimensions at end) The MMA's New Amer…
There's one reason to see this film: Meryl Streep. The Iron Lady follows Britain's Margaret Thatcher from aspiring politician to political powerhouse, from loving wife to grieving widow. Str…
... hidden image of a woman with a hat ... The American abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler died at the age of 83 just a few days ago and I'm writing because of something very interesting a…
... here's the cold war ... Blood and Guts tells the story of the American thrust for influence in Afghanistan during the cold war through a close look at the lives and adventures of three i…
This is as good a movie as I've ever seen or ever hope to see. And it's such a surprise. It's filmed in black and white and as a silent film, about a silent film star, George Valentin (Jean …
Ken Davenport, producer of Broadway and off-Broadway shows, posted on his blog, http://www.TheProducersPerspective.com , a summary of the Annual Broadway League's report about the demographi…
NEWS FLASH 12/15/2011: The Flea's Romantic Holiday Comedy LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS Comes to TV December 21 - 25 on Thirteen WNET Thirteen WNET will air The Flea Theater's acclaimed 2010 producti…
... science vs. religion ... In an imagined encounter between Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis, two intelligent men discuss significant human issues. No sex, no violence. What a relief. It's Se…