Inside That 50-Year-Old Same-Sex Kiss in ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ (Guest Blog)
“I didn’t think that it should be portrayed with any kind of apology,” director John Schlesinger said of Peter Finch and Murray Head’s lip-lock in 1971 film
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Remembering Pat Loud, America’s First Reality TV Mom (Guest Blog)
The star of the groundbreaking 1973 series “An American Family” never fully recovered from the negative reaction to the show
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How Larry Kramer Pulled Off the First Film With Frontal Male Nudity – Back in 1969
In an excerpt from his book “Sexplosion,” Robert Hofler explores the late writer’s work on director Ken Russell’s groundbreaking film “Women in Love”
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’72 Miles to Go…’ Theater Review: 3 Citizens Plus 2 Immigrants Without Documentation Equal 1 Family
Despite missteps into the land of sitcoms, Hilary Bettis’ new play exposes an immigration disaster
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
Young Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Headlands’ Theater Review: A Classic Film Noir Finds Its Way to the Stage
Christopher Chen’s new mystery intrigues with its many twists and turns. If only he had put a more cynical sleuth at its center
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‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
C.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the “Black Swan” star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
Lauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
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‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ Theater Review: Carla Gugino and Company Face Their Own End
Alice Birch’s new play exposes the false escape hatch that is motherhood
