Arts + Entertainment
-
Naked Talent
There are two ways that this can go. This review could spend a lot of time framing Ganymede Arts' new production of the musical review...
-
Cutting Edge
''You wanted a hit, but maybe we don't do hits. I try and try, it ends up feeling kind of wrong,'' James Murphy sings matter-of-factly...
-
Big-Screen Crime
Robin Hood and Little John walkin' through the forest … oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly what a bore! A great deal of nostalgia will be felt for...
-
Feast and Famine
There is something about Hadar Galron's Mikveh that seems familiar. This would not seem so strange were it not for the fact that Theater J's...
-
Explosive Finale
One of the more traditional ways of celebrating an event of particular significance is with a champagne toast -- a fleet of slender flute glasses...
-
Whistling Dixie
Ever wonder what the Dixie Chicks would sound like without lead singer Natalie Maines? Well, now we know: Sheryl Crow. Crow is actually nowhere to...
-
Reassembled Lives
''As a child growing up in Missouri I would play in old, abandoned Victorian homes,'' says Mike Weber. ''I think that's where my fascination started...
-
Young Bucks
There is nothing rotten – though there are some slightly malodorous bits – in Folger Theatre's state of Denmark. Folger's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet...
-
Icelandic Surprise
How is the singer-songwriter Jon Thor ''Jónsi'' Birgisson similar to the Icelandic volcano that shut down air traffic in Europe for days on end last...
-
Iron Fortified
When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) takes the stage at an Expo at the beginning of Iron Man 2, he does so in a manner...
-
Drive Time
In the moments before an accident, some people relate the experience of having their entire life flash before their eyes. But that has always seemed...
-
Marital Bliss
Truth be told, most comic operas are funnier in theory than in reality. The buffo, over-rouged in a teetering wig, capers about the stage and,...
-
Sia Change
Sia Furler is honored to be Christina Aguilera's ''bitch.'' Furler, who records under her first name, just wrapped up work co-writing for Aguilera, as well...
-
Tapped Out
Always remove one item before leaving the house. This was the advice of the godmother of the little black dress Coco Chanel. Do the hair....
-
Jewish Ham
Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler on the Roof? At first, you may hope he's playing the matriarch Golde in drag. Or better, a drag Yente, the...
