American National Theatre Offers Peek at Upcoming Plays
New York’s Algonquin Hotel, landmark whose famed round table saw such denizens as George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, and Alexander Woollcott, played host to a new generation of...
View Article‘The Past’ Augurs a Healthy Future for Farhadi
Is Asghar Farhadi one of the world’s great sadists? How else to explain his seeming revelry in the painful fissures in relationships between loved ones? His last film, the self-explanatorily entitled A...
View ArticleTurkish Delight
Billy Hayes delivers his side of the Midnight Express story It’s been more than 35 years since Alan Parker’s film Midnight Express sent the term Turkish prison to infamy and birthed writer Oliver...
View ArticleLiving in the here and now…and then some
Playwright Ken Urban communicates about The Correspondent To hear Ken Urban tell it, there’s no reason why he should be sitting in a theatre that’s about to premiere his latest work as a playwright. “I...
View ArticleWaleed F. Zuaiter’s Golden Moment
The Omar producer-star reaps the rewards of a family affair By Doug Strassler As many of us East Coasters deal with a February full of shoveling cars out from underneath snow and drying out soggy...
View ArticleKathryn Erbe: An Actress Full of Joy
The actress discusses her new Off-Broadway role Kathryn Erbe has applesauce in her hair. Yes, applesauce. It’s not a trendy new Goop recommendation or anything, just remnants from a particularly icky...
View ArticleJames Eckhouse Knows Best
The veteran actor makes his Broadway debut in All the Way James Eckhouse’s most recognizable role will always be sensible Jim Walsh, paterfamilias to Brandon (Jason Priestley) and Brenda (Shannen...
View ArticleThird Time’s the Farm
O’Hara and Pasquale have an affair to remember in Bridges of Madison County The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller’s flowery, if vapid, romantic novel of love among the cornstalks, spent...
View ArticleA Year in the Life
Bryan Cranston makes a presidential Broadway debut in All the Way Bill Rauch’s production of All the Way, the Robert Schenkkan civics lesson that just opened at the Neil Simon Theatre following runs at...
View ArticleThe Eyes Have It
Catherine Deneuve is Sublime in On My Way It’s been exactly fifty years since Catherine Deneuve first charmed the parapluies off audiences in Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, during which...
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