Reopening Night, a documentary movie by filmmaker Rudy Valdez, gives an up close examination of the Public Theater’s 2021 summer reopening in New York City’s Central Park, subsequent to being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
It never ceases to amaze me that writers can be so adept at delving into a human psyche to reveal the complicated self-preservation mechanisms that come into play. They “hold a […]
With customary professionalism, Simon Levy directs a flawless production of Lucy Kirkwood’s play, The Children. First presented in England in 2016, current events seemed to have surpassed the original message with which […]
As with so many monster movies, The Humans, like The Blob, The Shining, and The Bad Seed is a simple title but with horrific implications. Out of an ordinary occasion we encounter troubling, mysterious circumstances. The difference between “The Humans” […]
In Poor Clare, Playwright Chiara Atik weaves the story of a thirteenth-century saint affiliated with St. Francis into a sharply clever expose of our own times. Despite an opening delay, the […]
Remember the old phrase, “Is it live or is it memorex”? Now onstage at the Echo in Atwater Village, playwright D.G. Watson has crafted an interactive performance piece that puts differences […]
Documentarian Rachel Boynton has crafted an informational film titled Civil War (Or, Who Do WeThink We Are). A starting point for this probing documentary (now airing on cable television’s MSNBC) is that the American […]
In Canadian Daniel MacIvor’s short play (70 min), The Soldier Dreams, David, the central character (played variously by Ethan Niven and David Shofner), lies in a coma. He is dying, we […]
Dave Chappelle is a cerebral comic. His act is as bold and at times as profane as anything Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, or Eddie Murphy have ever presented. Nevertheless, Chappelle offers profundity in a manner […]
Recording artist Loretta Lynn, the country music icon, had a motion picture made based on her life. It was titled A Coal Miner’s Daughter. The famed actor Richard Burton’s biography could be called A […]
