Thursday, June 6, 2013
Joss Whedon’s adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” draws out the essential screwball nature of Shakespeare’s comedy.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:17PMFriday, May 10, 2013
“How Sweet It Is,” an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, centers on a washed-up, alcoholic Broadway producer and a Mafia don to whom he owes money.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 09:04AMFriday, April 26, 2013
“One Night Stand” is a documentary about casting, rehearsing and performing a musical, all in 24 hours.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 01:50PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Cindy Kleine’s gripping documentary about her husband, the theater director André Gregory, feels almost like a sequel to “My Dinner With André.”
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Cindy Kleine’s gripping documentary about her husband, the theater director André Gregory, feels almost like a sequel to “My Dinner With André.”
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 07:36PMFriday, November 16, 2012
In Lisa Albright’s turgid family drama, Bernadette Peters plays a faded Broadway diva with two daughters who starts life over in a rented, graffiti-scarred shack in Nashua, N.H.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 08:32AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Christopher Plummer reprises his stage role in “Barrymore,” about a hypothetical John Barrymore comeback.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 11:51AMFriday, November 2, 2012
In “The Understudy” a young Off Broadway actress commits an accidental sort of homicide that keeps putting her onstage in the star’s place.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Various issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 11:00AMVarious issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 06:11AMThursday, September 6, 2012
“Bachelorette,” the film version of Leslye Headland’s play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 01:37PM“Bachelorette,” the film version of Leslye Headland’s play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:27PMThursday, July 26, 2012
It says something about William Friedkin’s big-screen adaptation of the Tracy Letts play “Killer Joe” that the title psycho, played by Matthew McConaughey, is, by a long Texas mile, it…
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 03:41PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
“Ruby Sparks,” written by and starring Zoe Kazan, is a variation of the Pygmalion myth, featuring Paul Dano as a struggling novelist.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 11:32AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Tom Cruise stars in “Rock of Ages,” a musical, based on the Broadway show, set in the 1980s and featuring rock songs of the time.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:46PMThursday, March 8, 2012
A state competition for California high school students is the subject of Alex Rotaru’s documentary “Shakespeare High.”
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 07:28PMThursday, February 9, 2012
The director Alan Brown redirects the “Romeo and Juliet” narrative from interfamily rivalry to intrainstitutional homophobia.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 07:06PMThursday, February 2, 2012
“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 07:46PMThursday, December 15, 2011
In “Carnage,” Roman Polanski’s spry adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play, two couples show that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks animal impulses.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 05:30PMFriday, December 2, 2011
In his directing debut Ralph Fiennes adds modern weaponry to Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus.”
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 06:03AMThursday, October 27, 2011
The premise that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare were actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is hardly new.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 01:02PMFriday, October 7, 2011
In “The Sons of Tennessee Williams,” the documentarian Tim Wolff tracks a half-century of the gay civil-rights movement through the lens of Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 05:55AMWednesday, April 27, 2011
A playwright’s short and tragic life is recounted in a layered form, using actors lip-syncing actual interviews.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00PMFriday, December 17, 2010
In “Rabbit Hole” Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart play grieving parents whose 4-year-old son has died.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMFriday, December 10, 2010
Julie Taymor brings her theatrical exuberance to a new film version of “The Tempest.”
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMFriday, November 19, 2010
“Made in Dagenham” is a feminist fairy tale based on actual events whose heroine, a composite of real-life women, leads Ford workers in the battle for equal pay.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMFriday, November 5, 2010
With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMSunday, October 10, 2010
"My Soul to Take" has the comic pop-culture references and dreamy shocks of a Wes Craven film, but the director's heart does not seem to be into it.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMFriday, September 24, 2010
“You Again,” with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, is a misogynistic revenge comedy.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMFriday, September 17, 2010
“Jack Goes Boating” tells the story of a bland livery-car driver who wants a better life.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMThursday, August 12, 2010
Alex Karpovsky’s documentary films a New York show by the Chicago improv team T J and Dave, and preparations and post-mortems before and after a performance.
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