“Evidence” and “Mikhailovsky Ballet”—Surprising Similarities

New York,

two days, one night

Two Days, One Night (2014)

Film New York,
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have made many notable films from “La Promesse” to their Palme d’Or winners “Rosetta” and “L’Enfant,” but they had never worked with a movie star as big as Marion Cotillard until now with “Two Days, One ...
Bryan Cranston. Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva

All the Way, NYC

Theater New York,
  In 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson (Bryan Cranston) became the first Southern President of the “You-nited States of Am’rica” in one hundred fourteen years—that is, since Virginia’s Zachary Taylor, our twelfth commander-in-chief, who held that position for a total of ...
lesmiz

Les Misérables , NYC

Theater New York,
Arnold Bennett, no stranger to the quotidian himself, once accused James Joyce of selecting the “dailiest day” as the subject of his novel Ulysses.  Les Misérables, then, could be said to concern itself with the most epical epic: it is the story of a ...
no exit

No Exit, NYC

Theater New York,
“Why, [you’re] the torturer, of course,” Inez (Jolly Abraham) says to Cradeau (Bradford Cover) as she enters Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit."  He says that this is “too comic for words,” but of course he is her torturer just as she ...
Austin Cauldwell and Déa Julien in

Intimacy, NY

Theater New York,
Thomas Bradshaw is a 33-year-old black American playwright who might as well have his middle name legally changed to Provocative, because no one seems to be able to talk or write about his work without conjuring that adjective. The most ...