Culture
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‘Brooklynite’ Theater Review: Superhero Tale Feels Like an After-School Special
The ”X-Men“ story will bore the ”High School Musical“ set, but Peter Lerman’s score recalls the work of ”Sesame Street“ legend Joe Raposo
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‘Verite’ Theater Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Writer’s Play Is Like a Network TV Pilot
Writer/producer Nick Jones’ send-up of the book publishing business isn’t a play — it’s not even HBO, Netflix or FX
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‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Theater Review: Dianne Wiest and Tonya Pinkins Face Off in Tense Office Comedy
Cynthia Nixon referees in her auspicious directorial debut, making sure not to turn anyone into an obvious villain
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‘A Month in the Country’ Theater Review: Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage Offer Up 2 Hours in the Hamptons
Ivan Turgenev’s characters aren’t in love with who they’re supposed to be, and yet, they’re terribly civilized about it
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‘Let the Right One In’ Theater Review: Eli’s Back and She’s Learned a New Trick From Carrie
This little vampire makes you believe she can bite, wrestle and choke a man twice her size to death. It’s like a trip back to the Grand Guignol and just as bloody
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‘I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard’ Theater Review: Halley Feiffer Writes Her Daddy Dearest Play
The drama can be described as ”Whiplash“ meets ”The Heiress,“ as the writer goes straight for the jugular through the heart
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‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ Theater Review: Jason Robert Brown Gambles on Andrew Bergman’s Movie
In this age of gross-out humor, the fiancée-as-payment plot is relatively mild. But smarm stills needs charm to work on stage
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‘The Illusionists’ Theater Review: It’s a Magic Show That’s Houdini Times Seven
Anyone who’s ever seen newsreels of Houdini has wanted to go back in time to experience first-hand the cheesy excitement of seeing a stunt performer risk his life. Here’s your chance
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‘A Particle of Dread’ Theater Review: Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea Eyeball Oedipus
Rea may be the first Oedipus to play the role in blood-spattered overalls, and he deftly handles Shepard’s freewheeling segues from tragedy to slapstick and back
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‘A Delicate Balance’ Theater Review: Glenn Close Revisits More Than One Diva
Close’s strong, unyielding matriarch is sister to Norma Desmond from ”Sunset Boulevard,“ the actress’ last role on Broadway twenty years ago
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‘By the Water’ Theater Review: Superstorm Sandy Returns, This Time with Glimpses of Arthur Miller
Sharyn Rothstein’s new play recalls Miller’s ”All My Sons,“ and to her credit, the absorbing story deserves more than its current one act
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Jon Stewart Goes All Fashion Police on Obama’s ‘Hunger Games’ Outfit (Video)
”What the f*ck is he wearing?“ Stewart says about President Obama’s purple outfit at the APEC conference in China
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‘The Oldest Boy’ Theater Review: The Reincarnation of a Bernardo Bertolucci Movie
Like in ”Little Buddha,“ the parents in Sarah Ruhl’s new play send their son to Nepal to be tested, enthroned, and educated. And so the lecture begins
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‘The Real Thing’ Theater Review: Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal Live Up to Tom Stoppard’s Title
Actors’ chemistry is like Hepburn and Tracy’s only in reverse; she’s solid and implacable, he’s high-strung and nervously pecking around for a way to chip into her guarded world
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Nancy Grace ‘Honored’ to Receive Pink Underwear From Sheriff Joe Arpaio
”And autographed by the sheriff himself!“ the provocative TV host tells TheWrap
