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Heavy lies the crown of commercial success. Sometime before the release of his 2016 album, "Views," Drake, the outsider rapper turned pop virtuoso, grew too dominant for his own good. On his…
There was much talk recently about the evening that Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump spent side by side, sitting together at the Schoenfeld Theatre to watch the Canadian musical "Come from Aw…
The town of Gander, Newfoundland, has six traffic lights and a population of less than thirteen thousand. Snowmobiling is popular, and people leave their car doors unlocked while they're at …
Fresh off Ryan Murphy's "Feud" comes another diva smackdown: a new musical about the rivalry between Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, who ran competing cosmetics empires. Though they n…
Arthur Miller's "The Price" (in revival at the American Airlines, under the direction of Terry Kinney) premièred on Broadway in 1968, four years after Miller's other mid-career plays "After…
The critic's profession may be destined to fade away, but others will have to take up this simple, irritating, somehow necessary job.
"Peoples and Other Peoples"
Five actors gathered in a room on Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan, to start rehearsing a new work for the Public Theatre, "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire." Written by David Byrne, former…
Since the film "Groundhog Day" came out, in 1993, it's been claimed by existentialists, Buddhists, political theorists, and comedy nerds alike. The story has become a modern parable: a morda…
Not long after "La La Land" was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Academy Awards"after which "Moonlight" was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Academy Awards,…
Well, you certainly don't go out anyplace less than dressed, not these days. Can't let anybody mistake you for that broken, misused little girl: Eleanora Fagan. No. Let there be no confusion…
"I'm the king of the world! Whooooo!" That line is not, in fact, from President Trump's Inaugural Address but from James Cameron's infamous speech at the 1998 Academy Awards, when he won the…
The musician Mica Levi has observed that in the world of film music, there are two schools of thought. "Some people see it as about doing something new and different, something very 'felt,'Ã…
Lisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fi…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences occupies a squat nineteen-seventies building on Wilshire Boulevard, surrounded by car dealerships. On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone …
The urban kingdom of Washington Heights is an unlikely Eden where the stately European echoes of Beaux-Arts architecture clash with the extroverted expressions of the Latin-American diaspora…
"We didn't need dialogue," Norma Desmond tells a young screenwriter in "Sunset Boulevard," recalling her silent-film-era glory days. "We had faces!" Screenwriters famously suffer all sorts o…
"Actors aren't animals! They're human beings!" the wise producer Leo Bloom once said, to which his partner, Max Bialystock, replied, "They are? Have you ever eaten with one?" Most of the Osc…
For a certain stripe of Oscar obsessive"c'est moi"it's all about actresses. A healthy variety of tough, sly, vulnerable, funny, chilling female performances signals that the state of the cin…
In the days leading up to her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, pundits speculated about whether or not the pop star Lady Gaga"who has long advocated for misfits, throwing her con…
Earlier this week, it was announced that the B Street Band""the original Springsteen tribute band""would be performing at the Garden State Presidential Inaugural Gala, one of several semifor…
When "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" opened on Broadway, in 1968, it featured one of the best young casts ever to appear in an American musical. Diane Keaton, Melba Moore, and …
What a strange and contradictory"and not unentertaining"thing the Golden Globes were to watch last night. On the one hand, "La La Land," a Hollywood movie musical about the magic of Hollywoo…
A few years before writing "Guys and Dolls," which premièred in 1950, Frank Loesser put his sizable talents to work for Uncle Sam, when the U.S. Army hired him to collaborate on a series of…
"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable," Carrie Fisher, who died yesterday, at the age of sixty, wrote in her memoir "Wishful Drinking," from 2008. Fisher's…
