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Now Take Them Out, Devils: The Next Day Introduces Bowie, The Mortal (Part 1)
On the first of March it was announced that The Next Day, the first new David Bowie album in ten years, could be streamed in full on iTunes, a week and a half before the record’s actual U.S. release....
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: The Next Day Introduces Bowie, The Mortal (Part 2)
Missed part one? Read it here. When The Next Day was announced on Bowie’s 66th birthday, I had long since given up any hope of hearing new material. It was as if a limb I had amputated years ago had...
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: Caitlin Rose &“Except Rap & Country”
“I like everything except Rap and Country.” God, is there a more phrase as simultaneously innocuous and incendiary as that one? It’s the pop music equivalent of “I’m not racist, but…;” a phrase oft...
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His Name is Ari Brand
Up close and personal with the ‘Asher Lev’ star Among the Goliaths storming the New York City boards this year – Tony winners like Douglas Hodge, Shuler Hensley and Nathan Lane as well as marquee names...
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An Unexpected Family: ’50 Children’ Documents a Holocaust Miracle
A new documentary about a bright spot in one of humanity’s darker periods premieres on HBO. Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus, the new...
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NTTOD Playlist #4: The Dark Side of Lite FM
First of all, credit where credit ‘s due: the Dark Side of Lite FM is the brainbaby of my friend Edward Julian O’Hara Bonilla. Dude is a pop music genius the likes of which has only graced this...
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Good With People is Worth the Check-In
“J’accuse?” It’s one of the first lines uttered in David Harrower’s layered play, Good With People, currently shining at 59E59 as part of its Brits Off Broadway festival. Those familiar with history...
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Rattlestick Branching Out: A New York Theatre Company Goes National
Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging Daniel Talbott’s ‘Slipping’ is the first LA production for the NYC company The Off-Broadway theatre community isn’t a geographical location as much as a mental one,...
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Every Day They Write the Book: Francois Ozon’s In the House
The French film is part social commentary, part unabashed soap opera It’s always nice to see a work of art that values the art of creation – particularly the act of observant writing. Such is the case...
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Getting Owned
A Q&A with the company of the new Knife Edge show Actors Don DiPaolo and Neil Holland and director Sam Helfrich, of theater company Knife Edge Productions, reunite after 2011’s successful run of...
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For Better or Worse
A Q & A with Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughn of A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia) By Doug Strassler Photo by Ayumi Sakamoto Real-life married couple Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughn conceived of A Marriage: 1...
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Now Take Them Out Devils’ Contenders for Summer Album of 2013
Every May, they start trickling out: the self-proclaimed Summer Albums. They’re the blockbuster popcorn flicks of the music world; flashy, catchy, accessible and widely discussed. In a way, being...
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Sans Merci
Silence proves a powerful device in Johnna Adams’ new play By Doug Strassler Of all the scenes that will emblazon themselves upon the heart, as many in Sans Merci, the deeply affecting new Johnna Adams...
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Augustine
Alice Winocour’s debut marks a very suitable case for treatment By Doug Strassler We first meet Augustine - a kitchen servant, the title character of director-writer Alice Winocour’s impressive debut...
View ArticleTry to Remember: The Memory Show
By Doug Strassler “Location, location, location” – that’s an adage long associated with New York, but it’s particularly familiar mandate for The Transport Group, who’ve mounted shows in such...
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Rainbow High
Justin Sayre’s lively concert honors Judy Garland and benefits The Ali Forney Center On Monday night, some of New York’s best and brightest stars stepped out to honor one of their greatest heroes –...
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ANTFest is Far From a Pest
A Q&A with Ars Nova’s Jeremy Blocker By Doug Strassler Now in its sixth year, ANT Fest, Ars Nova’s summer festival celebrating “All New talent,” ups the ante in terms of diversity and programming....
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For Ziad Doueiri, the Political is Also Personal
Writer-director discusses The Attack By Doug Strassler Successful doctor Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman)’s life as he knows it ends almost as suddenly as that of his wife’s, a victim of a suicide bombing...
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Potted Potter Grows into Perennial NYC Hit
Don’t know the difference between a Gryffindor and a Slytherin? Haven’t a clue what the heck a horcrux is? Not to worry. By the end of POTTED POTTER – The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by...
View ArticleInterview with the Vampire Author: a Q & A with Hell’s Belle Scribe Karen Greco
By Doug Strassler Author Karen Greco has just contributed a new entry into the ever-popular field of vampire fiction with Hell’s Belle, about Nina Martinez, a half-human, half-vampire balancing...
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