'Celebrity Autobiography' is a rollicking production of celebrated actors reading excerpts from various stars' memoirs that are unintentionally laugh-out-loud.
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Music Review: ‘A Forest Unfolding’ – a Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."
Read More »Theater Review: Todd Almond in ‘I’m Almost There’ at BAM
Todd Almond continually gets waylaid just trying to be a decent and reasonably happy version of himself in this charmingly surreal musical storytelling session.
Read More »Tribeca Festival Documentary Review: ‘Chris & Martina: The Final Set’
In 'Chris & Martina: The Final Set,' Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova review their intense rivalry as well as their lasting friendship.
Read More »Tribeca Festival Documentary Review: ‘Hollywood Does Abortion’
'Hollywood Does Abortion' chronicles how the entertainment and film industries shaped or reflected the public's perspective about abortion.
Read More »ATX TV Event: Classic ‘Twilight Zone’ Moments with a Rod Serling Biographer
Every seat in the room was taken when the presentation began with a showing of Season 1 Episode 5 of The Twilight Zone, “Walking Distance.”
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Girl, Interrupted’ – Stunning Music, Memorable Performances
'Girl, Interrupted' by Matyna Majok with music by Aimee Mann is based on the Susanna Kaysen memoir. Its themes echo with haunting poignance.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!!’ by Catherine Weingarten
The fantasy fable follows the preparations for a wedding between over-the-moon Jenny and Sebastian, a shiftless, barely-interested charmer who seems to have proposed as a lark.
Read More »Art: ‘Musical Bodies’ – Humans and Our Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A new exhibit explores the myriad of ways we have created musical instruments in our own image – and incorporated them into our own physicality.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Xhloe and Natasha in ‘And Then the Rodeo Burned Down’
Xhloe and Natasha's shows almost represent a genre all their own. There's comedy and clowning, eros and acrobatics. There's zany dialogue that touches on deep human subjects. The pair are masters of both physical comedy and conceptual juggling.
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