Playing Around

“Take the A Train”* was born without any effort – it was like writing a letter to a friend. Duke Ellington. (Composed by Billy [...]

Midway through Richard Linklater’s film, Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) vanishes, sending her husband, Elgin (Billy Crudup), and [...]

The Oscar-nominated Danish film, After the Wedding, directed by Susanne Bier, starred two men – Mads Mikkelsen and Rolf Lassgård. [...]

The New Job – Night 1 With my Madison Square Garden badge in place, polo shirt neatly tucked into slacks, comfortable black sneakers [...]

Richard Wright’s compelling 1939 novel found its way to legitimate theater in three different adaptations: 1941, 2006, and this 2014 [...]

The corridor is dark. Shepherded into a theater filled with red light and fog, we’re led to our VIP couch by a genial male host. Like [...]

Interior by Nick PayneDirected by Rory McGregor An Old Man (Bill Buell) and A Stranger (Jordan Bellow) have been thrown together by the [...]

Lucky by Sharr WhiteDirected by J.J. Kandel It’s the 1940s. War is over but it’s taken Phil (Blake DeLong) years and the impetus of his [...]