In Performance: Nathan Lee Graham of ‘Hit the Wall’
Ike Holter’s play “Hit the Wall” unfolds over the course of one night during the 1969 Stonewall riots that helped spark the modern gay rights movement. In this scene the actor Nathan Lee Graham, who...
View Article‘Flashdance’ on Broadway Is Delayed Again
The Broadway-bound musical “Flashdance,” based on the 1983 movie about a female welder who wants to be a dancer, is being delayed again as its producers continue to work on the show. The musical, which...
View ArticleTheater Talkback: In the Minority
I’ll admit, I don’t have it as bad as poor little Matilda. For her assorted deviances from the norm, she is called stupid at home and routinely humiliated at school. I, on the other hand, am merely...
View ArticleSondheim and Marsalis to Collaborate on Show for City Center
Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis are collaborating on a new show to be staged at the New York City Center next November that will feature jazz interpretations of Mr. Sondheim’s love songs. The...
View ArticleThe Sweet Spot: Late-Night Buzz
The Sweet Spot David Carr and A. O. Scott discuss cultural topics. In this week’s episode, David Carr and A. O. Scott break down the late-night television landscape. Letterman, Leno, Fallon, Kimmel,...
View ArticleEastwood and Aronofsky, Live at Tribeca
Clint Eastwood and Darren Aronofsky will engage in a public dialogue about the art of film directing at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, one of a score of panel discussions scheduled during the...
View ArticleArchitects Announce Opposition to MoMA Plan for Former Museum Site
Richard Meier, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Hugh Hardy and Robert A.M. Stern are among the prominent architects who on Monday called for the Museum of Modern Art to reconsider its decision to demolish the...
View ArticleBryan Cranston to Play Lyndon Johnson in ‘All the Way’
Bryan Cranston, a multiple Emmy winner for playing Walter White on TV’s “Breaking Bad,” will star this fall as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the American Repertory Theater production of Robert...
View Article‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Will Close on Sunday
The new Broadway play “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” will close on Sunday after 17 preview performances and 38 regular performances, the producers announced on Monday. The play, adapted by the Tony Award...
View ArticleTribeca: 'The Rocket', 'Bridegroom' Win Audience Awards
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments "The Rocket" The Laos-based drama and the marriage equality doc were chosen by the fest's attendees. Feel-good drama The Rocket and marriage equality documentary...
View Article‘Glass Menagerie’ Coming to Broadway
The American Repertory Theater’s recent production of “The Glass Menagerie,” starring the Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield and Zachary Quinto as her son Tom, will transfer to...
View ArticleAnnual Giveaway Will Include 500,000 Books
World Book Night, the publishing industry’s massive annual book giveaway, will be celebrated on Tuesday in 28 events across the country. This year, 500,000 books will be handed out in nursing homes,...
View ArticleMidsummer Night Swing Announces Lineup
This year, the organizers of the Midsummer Night Swing concert series at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center are taking few chances with the program: they have announced a lineup heavy with New York’s...
View ArticleFour Artists Named as Finalists for Britain’s Turner Prize
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a British artist who paints portraits of imaginary people, leaving it to the viewer to supply the biographical back stories – and whose first solo museum exhibition, “Any Number...
View ArticleGary Shteyngart to Publish Memoir
Gary Shteyngart will follow up his three best-selling novels with a memoir, his publisher, Random House, announced on Wednesday. Mr. Shteyngart’s editor, David Ebershoff, described the book as the...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Scene: ‘Mud’
Anatomy of a Scene Directors offer behind-the-scenes narration on their films. In Jeff Nichols’s latest film “Mud,” Matthew McConaughey plays the title character as a man who is always on the move. The...
View ArticleMTV Orders TV Pilot Based on ‘Scream’ Horror Series
Do you like scary movies? And do you also like scary TV shows adapted from scary movies that cleverly deconstruct the entire scary-movie genre? If you answered yes to both questions (and, in doing so,...
View ArticleIn Fine Print of ‘Spider-Man’ Settlement, Taymor Comes Out on Top
Julie Taymor is back on top. As a result of last week’s settlement in the legal battle over Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Ms. Taymor’s directing credit on the musical has been enhanced –...
View ArticleCannes Competition Lineup Includes Coen Brothers and Payne
New films from Joel and Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, Nicolas Winding Refn, Roman Polanski and Steven Soderbergh are among the features that will be presented in competition at this year’s Cannes Film...
View ArticleVision Festival Announces Its Lineup
The 18th edition of the Vision Festival, New York’s annual celebration built around the lineage of free improvisation and jazz’s non-mainstream languages, will take place from June 12 to 16, according...
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