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ICONIC DIRECTORS WHO SHAPED THE FILM INDUSTRY
Directors aren’t a part of the crew. They are visionary storytellers, often behind the cameras, who take words on a script and turn them into moving pictures. Directors are the brains behind masterpieces that most audiences are relishing, influencing a new generation of filmmakers. The film production industry is one of the fastest-growing industries, with…
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Off-Broadway Review: GENE & GILDA (Penguin Rep at 59E59)
Hollywood is full of iconic love stories but none is quite as brilliantly weird and tragically sweet as the romance between Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, two comedy legends who fell madly in love somewhere between a silly goof and a punch line. And it is hard to think of somebody wanting to put their…
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Theater Review: BILLIE JEAN (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)
GAME. SET. NOT QUITE MATCH. Tennis great and feminist icon Billie Jean King gets the biography treatment in Billie Jean by Lauren Gunderson. Opening the new season of Chicago Shakespeare, this crowd-pleasing world premiere follows Billie Jean from her childhood in the 1950s through to the US Open in 2006 when the USTA National Tennis…
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Album Review: WOODLAND SONGS (Dover Quartet; Music of Jerod Tate, Pura Fé, and Dvořák)
STRINGS OF THE SPIRIT: DOVER QUARTET’S WOODLAND REVERIE Woodland Songs is a wondrous, deeply American musical journey that feels both timeless and urgently of the moment. The Dover Quartet—never content to coast on their accolades—has once again pushed boundaries with a moving and masterfully performed album that connects Chickasaw and Tuscarora traditions to the classical…
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LEGAL VS. ILLEGAL ONLINE CASINOS: SPOTTING THE DIFFERENCE
Online casinos offer a convenient and exciting way to enjoy your favorite games—whether it’s spinning the reels, diving into live dealer tables, or placing that bold bet on your lucky number. With just a few clicks, you can explore poker rooms, slots, and even sports betting, all from the comfort of your own home. But…
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WHY NEW ZEALAND IS HOLLYWOOD’S FAVORITE BACKLOT — AND STILL ITS BEST-KEPT SECRET
New Zealand is often described as Hollywood’s open-air studio. From the rolling hills of Hobbiton to the dramatic fjords of Milford Sound, the country’s theatrical landscapes have anchored some of the world’s most iconic film productions. Yet despite its cinematic prominence, New Zealand remains less top-of-mind than more established filming centers. Exactly the paradox that makes it…
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Theater Review: THE MEETING TREE (Company One Theatre)
REPAIR AND REPARATIONS Company One’s world premiere of The Meeting Tree powerfully evokes the debate and the struggle over reparations and restitution through the lives of six women, some Black, some white, all of them related through their connection to one white man who lived in Alabama before the abolition of slavery. Director Summer L….
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Cabaret Review: FROM BROADWAY, WITH LOVE (Melba Moore at 54 Below)
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, MOORE OR LESS She’s a singer, certainly a star, and a survivor. Melba Moore has had a decades-long career that includes musical theatre, film, TV, and recordings covering such genres as R&B, dance music, and pop, and disco. Her stage work began with a role in the legendary rock musical…
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Theater Review: ICE CREAM BLONDE (Actors Company)
DEAD BLONDES TELL NO TALES — EXCEPT THIS ONE Conspiracy theories have surrounded the death of actress and restaurateur Thelma Todd since 1935, when her lifeless body was discovered in a garage slumped behind the wheel of her parked Lincoln Phaeton convertible. Alexandra Kopko, as the actress’s ghost, presents a bio of Todd’s life to…
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Theater Review: ARTEMIS BOOKS & THE WELL-MEANING MAN (The Village Theater at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble)
AN EXTREMELY FEMINIST PLAY. OR IS IT? Never meet a man, they say. What happens if we have to work with one? Artemis Books & The Well-Meaning Man poses the complex question of how, if at all, men should be allowed into women’s safe spaces—or if it’s unethical to exclude them. The Village Theater’s world…
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Theater Review: BETSY & PATTY FIND OUT (The Broadwater)
WAITING FOR COWDOT Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of the lethal potential of passivity, has shown himself the exception that either tests or proves that rule. In Betsy & Patty Find Out at the Broadwater Second Stage, seven cows…
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BACKSTAGE PREPAREDNESS: WHY EVERY ACTOR SHOULD KNOW SAFETY BASICS
Whether you’re a seasoned stage performer or a rising star, the world of live theatre is as exhilarating as it is unpredictable. Between quick costume changes, towering sets, and hasty tech adjustments, minor accidents can happen. That’s why some local thespians and crew members are signing up for First Aid courses Kingston—not to prepare for…
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UNDRESS HER: AI’S ROLE IN REIMAGINING CELEBRITY CULTURE
Can you imagine what Marilyn Monroe would look like today using modern AI stylization? Or how iconic moments from red carpets might appear through a digital lens? The phrase “Undressher” has taken on new meaning not in the tabloids, but in the world of artificial intelligence. From curiosity to controversy, this new wave of AI…
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Cabaret Review: TESSA SOUTER (“Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project” Album Release at Joe’s Pub)
SOUTER SATISFIES WITH SATIE & SINCERITY In a presentation that featured many self-penned, self-revealing lyrics – an album release show by singer Tessa Souter and her band made for an evening that was intimate, intense, intriguing, and involved to the Nth degree. The concert at Joe’s Pub on the first night of July was, first…
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Dance Review: LADY WHITE SNAKE (Lincoln Center)
A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery Presented in the Year of the Snake, Lady White Snake offers a contemporary interpretation of one of China’s great folktales—long retold in theatre, film, and television, and now reimagined as a two-act dance drama. The story follows a wife’s awakening consciousness and her struggle for freedom against the forces that…
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Obituary: CLEO LAINE (Jazz Singer and Theatre Actress)
A VOICE THAT SPANNED CONTINENTS AND CENTURIES The trouble with singers who insist on being versatile is that they make everyone else look lazy. Dame Cleo Laine, who died on July 24th at her home in Wavendon, England, aged 97, was particularly guilty of this sort of thing. Her nearly four-octave voice wandered from gravelly…
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Theater Review: NOISES OFF (The Old Globe)
NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON English playwright Michael Frayn debuted his farce Noises Off in 1982, and decades of audiences and reviewers have since happily applauded Frayn’s work as perhaps the funniest as well as the most challenging comedy in the canon of English-language theater. The Old Globe has accepted the Noises Off challenge this summer,…
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Off-Broadway Review: GINGER TWINSIES (Orpheum Theatre)
TWO GINGER SNAPS UP FOR THIS PARENT TRAP PARODY The subtitle for Ginger Twinsies, the new Off-Broadway comedy which opened last night at the Orpheum Theatre, reads: “The Parent Trap parody (legally speaking).” Having never seen Nancy Myer’s 1998 Disney film starring Lindsay Lohan, it gave me pause; I wondered if I’d spend the evening…
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Concert Review: TAIKOPROJECT (25th Anniversary Show at Disney Hall)
25 YEARS OF BEATS, SWEAT, AND COMMUNITY: TAIKOPROJECT’S ANNIVERSARY SHOW HITS (MOST OF) THE RIGHT NOTES Bryan Yamami and Masato Baba, the powerhouse duo behind TAIKOPROJECT, are still going strong after 25 years — and honestly, that’s impressive on so many levels. Not only are they raising families and still moving like dancers half their…
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Theater Review: LOVE’S LABOURS LOST (Lanes Coven Theater Company at Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA)
WIN OR LOSE, IT’S ABOUT LOVE Wow! Whoever wrote Love’s Labour’s Lost was a comic genius. The wordplay, the multi-lingual puns, and the send-ups of characters stumbling over their own foolishness are endlessly entertaining—except that many productions of this play by William Shakespeare fall flat. The sometimes obscure (to us) Elizabethan references and word usage…
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