Though the country plays host to some of the most gorgeous locales, an infinite amount of history, and an abundance of talented, beautiful performers, most modern French movies feature homegrown actors not well-known outside the province. Recently, however, a couple local kids have made good, as can be seen with Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin’s 
Sweeney Todd, that dark, cunning musical adapted by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is the kind of work that should play, somewhere, every year around Halloween, not unlike The Sound of Music’s emergence as an Easter television perennial. The show, with its twisted and twisting themes of blood lust, love, vengeance and survival, happens to 
After 2010’s site-specific production of Hedda Gabler, The Private Theatre has returned with another update of a classic. The group will adapt August Strindberg’s Playing with Fire in a multimedia production co-conceived by Shane Bly Killoran and adapted by Royston Coppenger. John Gould Rubin will direct the production, which opens August 17 at 189 Chrystie 
Just last fall, New York Press named Susan Louise O’Connor one of the city’s best kept theater secrets. Slowly but surely, that secret’s getting out: O’Connor is currently playing the role of a secretary with secrets of her own in the new Victor L. Cahn play. (Cahn also co-stars in the two-hander, currently playing at 
While many plan vacations in mid-August, New York theater lovers know to stay put for the annual New York International Fringe Festival, a two week-long compilation of live shows spanning a diverse array of subjects, genres, and formats. Check out these official New York Press picks: All My Children: Nope, Susan Lucci isn’t looking 
Religion has fostered one of the great ongoing dialogues over the course of time in world history. Any subset alone is rife potential for a great, perhaps controversial, discussion. Documentarian Vikram Gandhi bites off this giving tree in his new documentary, Kumaré, more a piece of personal propaganda than it is an inquest into just 
The first thing I thought upon hearing that Marvin Hamlisch, the highly-decorated film and theater composer, had passed away, was “How old was he?” The second thought I had, upon hearing that he was only 68 when he died from a brief illness, was “How did he do so much?” Well, he sure did start 
Backroom politics can make for truly awesome drama, but Kenneth Lin’s Warrior Class drains the juice out of what could have been a far more enticing show. Warrior is the second show to play this summer at the Second Stage Uptown venue, designated for up-and-coming works by emerging playwrights. One doesn’t expect perfection from these 
