I’m hearing from a pretty solid source that “Hairspray,” that tsunami of joy that has been on Broadway since the summer of 2002, will be closing in New York after the Christmas holidays. Of course, this doesn’t mean the show, based on the 1988 movie … Read more »
The finalists for Britain’s Turner Prize, devoted to contemporary artists, have been announced, and my favorite has got to be Cathy Wilkes. Shown in the item below is her piece called “I Give You All My Money.” The mother and child are not part of … Read more »
Here’s my review from the Financial Times of the just-opened revival of “Equus” on Broadway. Although I (and most New York critics) were mixed in our feelings about the play, I must note that many of my friends and acquaintances think that the drama holds … Read more »
I spent most of today in the capacious Ziegfeld cinema in New York, watching Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Che” — starring Benicio del Toro (pictured) — at a New York Film Festival press screening. The movie unfurled in two parts, each 131 minutes. The first film … Read more »
I’m not sure I want to spend $12 to see “W.,” Oliver Stone’s October 17 release about George W. Bush. (Remember him?) But the trailer for the movie (click here to view it), set against David Byrne’s “Once in a Lifetime,” is absolutely crackerjack. My … Read more »
Unless you’re one of the three or four people in the world who hasn’t seen “Fantasia,” you know that Disney, contrary to the usual elitist bashing, does indeed have a connection to “classical” music. So why should it shock us that composer Philip Glass has … Read more »
The dispute between producer Scott Rudin and mogul Harvey Weinstein about the release date for “The Reader” has been resolved. The movie — an emotional World War Two story — based on a Bernhard Schlink novel, adapted by David Hare, and starring Kate Winslet (pictured) … Read more »
