An $8,000 budget, but Found delivers more chills and substance than Hollywood’s multimillion-dollar nightmares In order to cleanse my horror palate after the shitstain that Terrifier 3 was, I decided to find the cheapest, dirtiest little horror film I could dig up. The winner? An $8,000 indie gem called Found, streaming on Tubi and more. And let me tell […]
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ATONEMENT, FULL OF PASSION AND REGRET, IS A MUST-SEE BALLET Choreographer Cathy Marston’s ballet adaption of Atonement layers the complexities of Ian McEwan’s critically acclaimed novel with visually and musically stunning performances. The Joffrey Ballet co-produced this piece with Ballet Zürich, which premiered the ballet at the Zürich Opera House in Switzerland earlier this year. […]
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I’M DREAMING OF A PSYCHEDLIC CHRISTMAS Well, Halloween is here soon, but you know what’s really scary — aside from Christmas items for sale at Costco before Valentine’s Day? By Thanksgiving, tickets will no doubt be sold out for The Troubies’ newest Holiday Show, Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, which plays December 5-22, 2024. For those […]
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LET’S BE FRANKLIN Were our Founding Fathers good fathers to their children? Lloyd Suh‘s play Franklinland, directed by Chika Ike, now having its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, concerns one of the greatest polymaths of all time. The only person to sign the Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris, peace with Britain, and […]
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On Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7:30pm, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall will host Impromptu, a captivating evening of spontaneous performance featuring the acclaimed Teodora Brody and the renowned American guitarist and pianist Stanley Jordan. For the first time at Carnegie Hall, they will perform an entirely unrehearsed concert, without a setlist or score. This is a […]
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GLORIA, HALLELUJAH! Unless you can see Gloria at The Chance Theater tonight or tomorrow, this may be a review of record, as it ran only two weeks after opening night, but I tell you this is what theater should be: unique, sharp, funny, adventurous. The author, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, continues to be one of contemporary theater’s […]
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HIGH TIDE IS A QUIET STUNNER Lourenço, a handsome, thirtysomething, Brazilian man, is deeply in love with his boyfriend Joe. But in a surprise move, Joe dumps Lourenço while the two are on vacation in Provincetown, MA. Lourenço is devastated and stranded in P-Town at the end of the season. With only a tourist visa, […]
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IN THE LOWER ROOM A triple bill of unconnected masterpieces showcases the best and worst of “America’s National Ballet Company” George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, which heads the triple bill of American Ballet Theatre’s Choreographers of the 20th and 21st Centuries program — which opened tonight at Lincoln Center’s Koch Theatre — was choreographed in 1941. […]
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NORM SETS THE STANDARD An Intimate Evening with Norm Lewis at The Barns last night was a magical journey through his musical theater career, brimming with charm, humor, and breathtaking vocals (there is one more performance tonight). The evening began with a dynamic rendition of “Don’t Rain on My Parade” followed by the gentle, hopeful […]
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MAKING THE OLD NEW “Make it new,” Ezra Pound urged the poets of the early twentieth century. For Modernists such as T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Amy Lowell, and Pound himself, making it new meant innovating to produce something never before seen or read. Yet Boston’s Celebrity Series has now brought us two concerts […]
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