Is virtuosity, on its own, enough? That’s the question that’s raised pointedly by Kenrex, a play that poses as a true-crime inquiry into the nature of violence and justice but really asks if the experience of watching one actor whirring around onstage at the top of his game can obscure t… More » Source: Read…
A neighborhood association is a little like a protection racket, especially in a landmarked suburb like the fictional Vernon Point — one with well-preserved Victorian homes, a tree-lined esplanade, and a developing problem with traffic crashes. Recently, a stoplight has been installed on one stre… More » Source: Read Full Article
Noël Coward’s 1925 amuse-bouche Fallen Angels, now in a lush Broadway revival dripping Deco glamor and directed sans hot take by Scott Ellis, isn’t making any noisy arguments for its own necessity. The production grew out of a <a href="https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/join-and-give/spec… More » Source: Read Full Article
A parent’s love is supposed to be boundless and unconditional, but you have to snicker the first time that Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor) and his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), are reunited with their daughter after a nightmarish eight-year absence. Katie is a mischievous little girl played by Emily Mitchell when she disappears mysteriously from the…
Photo: Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection So Bob Odenkirk is really determined to see this thing through, huh? Fresh off last year’s Nobody 2, his sequel to the modest 2021 dadsploitation hit Nobody, he’s back with another middle-age kill-fest in Normal, named after the sleepy midwestern town that the movie will soon turn into a semi-ironic slaughter…
Photo: Universal/Everett Collection Watching You, Me & Tuscany, I felt a little like the robot boy David at the end of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In the final scenes of that movie, David, unfrozen and brought back to “life” by a futuristic race of all-powerful AI thousands of years after humanity’s extinction, asks…
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel play artists at different ends of the celebrity spectrum in The Christophers, a sly new dramedy from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. What unites the two main characters is that neither is showing new work anymore or, in the case of Julian Sklar (McKellen), making it at all….
Photo: Neon/Everett Collection Exit 8 may be based on a video game, but it feels at least equally guided by the ear-popping pressures caused by a declining birth rate. Before it ever gets to its main action, which involves an infinitely looping set of tile-lined hallways in the depths of the Tokyo metro, director Genki…
Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection The drama surrounding The Drama failed to dramatically curtail audience attendance for A24’s cringe rom-com over its opening weekend in theaters. The spectacle of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson navigating the mother of all pre-wedding “I never really knew you at all” revelations appears to have outshone negative buzz about the film’s…
The prospect of Paul Thomas Anderson winning Best Director isn’t the only much-anticipated Oscar breakthrough, though all the other ones lie in the craft awards. Production designer Jack Fisk (Marty Supreme) is on his fourth nomination with zero wins, having previously been nominated for There Will Be Blood, The Revenant, and Killers of the Flower…
