Playing Around Archives

“I’m so bummed this isn’t a Quentin Tarantino film!” The young woman behind me couldn’t be faulted for believing that The [...]

September 23, 2016

With Oliver Stone’s Snowden in theaters (read our review), now seems like a good time to remember some other cinematic entries about [...]

September 23, 2016

Playwright Shelagh Delaney grew up after World War II weathering the bleak conditions depicted in this, her first play. Joan Littlewood’s [...]

September 22, 2016

Wendy Walker spent 32 years at CNN, 18 of those as the senior executive producer for Larry King Live. Criminal defense attorney, Mark [...]

September 22, 2016

In Fox’s hit drama, 24, Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer was credited with saving the lives of more than one American president. In [...]

September 21, 2016

Gypsy Mimi Quillin rushed through the stage door at The Shubert Theater late for her performance in a benefit for American Dance Machine. [...]

September 20, 2016

In the 1930s and 40s, the infectiously joyful Sister Rosetta Tharpe took gospel music out of churches, into nightclubs and on to concert [...]

September 19, 2016

Rashid Johnson, a young promising artist from Chicago, made an auspicious debut in the exhibition “Freestyle” (2001), a show that [...]

September 18, 2016