'I Can Get it For You Wholesale' reminds us of the toxicity of materialism and the hypocrisy of religious prosperity messages that exclude humanity and neighborly love and decency.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Spamalot’ Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
'Spamalot is a laugh riot that speeds by at a break-neck pace. The ensemble are clowns of high art, who know how to do comedy. Gobsmacking!
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'Harmony' is a musical about an internationally famous, all-male German ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 until the Third Reich banned them as degenerates.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Arcadia,’ Tom Stoppard’s Masterpiece, Presented by Bedlam in Revival
In Bedlam's revival of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' the past and the present gradually merge as the truth comes clear about love and the second law of thermodynamics.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Sabbath’s Theater,’ with John Turturro and Elizabeth Marvel
A terrific theatrical adaptation of the award-winning Philip Roth novel.
Read More »Film Review: ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Explores Trans People Past and Present
'Orlando, my political Biography' is an intriguing film which uses Virginia Woolf's novel 'Orlando' to understand trans people past and present.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’
'Fallen Leaves' is Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's ironic, charming love story of working-class heroes rising above their circumstances to help each other.
Read More »Film Review: ‘The Taste of Things’ at the New York Film Festival
'The Taste of Things' is a mesmerizing visual pageant of the gastronomic exploits of a cook and a chef (Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel) in 19th-century France.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘About Dry Grasses’ at the New York Film Festival
'About Dry Grasses' at NYFF 2023 involves a teacher-pupil relationship that goes awry in a remote region of Turkey.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Zone of Interest’ at the New York Film Festival
'Zone of Interest' explores the horrific human truths behind the Holocaust in a novel way.
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