The audience-participation stalwart gets an imaginative revisualization in its annual staging at the Woodlawn Theatre.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Six Passionate Women’ by Mario Fratti
This comedy inspired by Federico Fellini's filmmaking foibles and womanizing ways starts amusingly, but ultimately disappoints.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Gitanjali [I Feel the Earth Move]’ by The Necessary Stage
Despite a too-common plot, this entertaining play about an Indian Odissi dancer was well-acted and danced.
Read More »New York Film Festival World Premiere: ‘Gone Girl,’ Starring Ben Affleck
'Gone Girl' is about Amy's disappearance: physical, spiritual and psychic. The question is did Nick ever really know her enough to inspire her to come back to him to clear his name?
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Maps to the Stars’
Agatha is the catalyst who sets the heavens in motion back to her beginnings in this sometimes sardonic always intriguing and deep film by David Cronenberg.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Heaven Knows What’
"Heaven Knows What" is not an easy film, but it's important, making us uncomfortable in its unrelenting "in your face" examination addiction's darkness.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mr. Landing Takes a Fall’ by Sari Caine
Inspired by 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', this new production from Slightly Altered States is absurd, emotionally acute, Python-esque, brilliantly acted, and ultimately incomprehensible.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Stray Dog’
Biker, Vietnam vet, Christian, father, friend, neighbor. Ron "Stray Dog" Hall is all of these and much more in Debra Granik's riveting "slice-of-life" documentary about a working class American.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘The Arsonists’ at Hot Chocolate Theatre
Though the production is very problematic, it should be considered a feather in Hot Chocolate's cap that this brand-new amateur theatre could do something difficult.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘The Look of Silence’
Joshua Openheimer's "The Look of Silence" explores the nearly forgotten Indonesian genocide.
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