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Cabaret Honors Its Own
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
In a year when the cabaret community has taken some major hits (the passing of Donald Smith, founder of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and its
Once Floats On A Moonbeam
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around
What a pleasure it is to experience a musical that doesn’t make your ears bleed with blasted sound. Once is a rare Broadway musical gem,
The Hunger Games—The Whole World is Watching
Monday, March 26th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
“May the odds be ever in your favor!” This is the traditional address Effie gives the residents of District 12 before the annual Reaping ceremony,
The Hunger Games—Fight for Survival in a Brutal Future
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
by Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg on Reading Around
The film, Hunger Games, starring Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence, opens in theaters and IMAX on March 23, 2012. This is Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg’s review of
Detachment—Tony Kaye’s Take On the Public School System
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
“You know what the worst thing about this job is? Nobody ever says thank you.” It’s taken a long time for Detachment (opening in select
Ellen Kaye Sings Ice Wine: Songs for Dark Winter Nights
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Ice Wine is purportedly about getting through the long. “tough” winter to hopeful spring. “Sort of from (Woody Allen’s) Love and Death to (Ingmar Bergman’s)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Seeking to Explain the Unfathomable
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
No matter how much time has gone by, it’s never easy to watch images from 9/11. Many New Yorkers still avoid the media every anniversary
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life—A Dreamlike Exploration of the Universe
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Great directors take risks and Terrence Malick is a great director. He’s also very smart—a Phi Beta Kappa Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar who
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