Nella VeraTheater
Peter Michael Marino, an-award winning performer, writer, director and producer, is one of the many artists who have been affected since live performances stopped in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to the industry-wide shutdown, Pete appeared off-Broadway in the immersive family show, Pip’s Island, and had also ...
Toba SingerFilm
Peabody Award winner Abby Ginzberg’s documentary film, “Waging Change,” tells a compelling story exposing the sordid working conditions in the restaurant industry, focusing on its lowest paid tip wait staff. Customer tips in lieu of employer wages begins on a timeline at the point when slavery ends, and the ...
Paula FarmerFilm
We’ll never know if this year’s list of the “Best Of”/ “Top Ten” Movies of 2020 are what they are because of the oddity of being a pandemic year, or in spite of it. There are plenty of movies that never got released due to theater closings or low ...
Toba SingerFilm
In the unlikely event that there’s an overabundance of merriment in your life under COVID, and nobody in your pod is complaining enough, you might want to see “Some Kind of Heaven.” It’s Darren Arnofsky’s latest exploration of middle-class alienation, this one directed by Lance Oppenheim, with no less ...
Andrew OsborneFilm
If I'm remembering the family lore correctly, my parents brought three-year-old me to a screening of "Love Story" in 1970, meaning that it's literally been half a century since I spent less time in movie theaters than I did in 2020. Naturally, I had bigger worries than that during ...
Andrew OsborneTelevision
TV has rarely been more central to our lives than it was in 2020, when it suddenly became a lifeline to sanity during quarantine as well as a window on the sheer chaos of the past year. And given that we've seen nearly everything on "small screens" ever since ...
Paula FarmerFilm
There are talented investigative journalists. There are outspoken activists, and there are those rare, self-sacrificing dissidents. Sometimes, there are those who are all three. Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi was one such person. Khashoggi went from maintaining a closely guarded status as journalist covering the volatile politics of his homeland ...
James GreenbergFilm
Taking to the open road—and all that implies—is an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche. The beckoning freedom of the highway; the romance of chucking it all for a life of endless adventure. There was a time when the exhortation to “Go West” conjured up infinite possibilities. And ...
Nella VeraTheater
It’s December and while Broadway is shut down, as are most regional and community theaters, there is no shortage of A Christmas Carol productions available—mostly online and a few in person. But it is safe to say that none are as anticipated as the one starring Jefferson Mays, the ...
Lewis WhittingtonMusicPhiladelphia,
The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas partitions, performing in an otherwise empty concert hall. Their concerts are being filmed for the orchestra’s rebooted fall Digital Stage season, broadcast from the Philorch.org website at very reasonable ...
