Playing Around

Photos and Text by Eleanor Foa Dienstag This is a less eccentric fashion exhibition than we are used to from the Met, and for that reason [...]

The second in this season’s Preludes-Lyrics and Lyricists Series at the 92Y. [...]

Calamity Jane 1953 Musical by Sammy Fain/Frances Paul Webster. Loosely based on the alleged romance of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary [...]

The tour through operatic history continues from last week. Week 35 kicks off in the late 19th century with Tchaikovsky’s last opera [...]

Mildred Pierce 1945 Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Psychologically oriented noir. Told in flashback after [...]

We start today’s session watching a 1960s video of “Paperback Writer” made before song videos were common/popular. Between 1962 and [...]

Arch of Triumph 1984 A British television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Waris Hussein. (There was a 1948 [...]

Angelo Caronia (Riccardo Scamarcio) is a brilliant but arrogant police detective. After offending nearly everyone in his police station in [...]