52 stories by "Helen Eisenbach"
Amy Schumer's Trainwreck introduces us to a new kind of mainstream film heroine: blunt, thoughtless, more interested in being gratified than likable, one whose boundless appetites are played…
When the Supreme Court released its ruling on same-sex marriage, I was walking to work, unaware history was being made. I was being given editorial notes over the phone, so my head was full …
The virulence with which hateful proclamations -- on all matters of identity -- continue to be publicly aired has a lasting effect, on me, on you, on everyone I know.
I first saw Beth Malone three years ago in a tiny theater in Hell's Kitchen performing a solo show. The actor, who billed herself as "part dude, part lady... all lesbian," examined…
In the throes of fighting for her life, Margolin revels in vivid memories of her youth, unscheduled raptures far from the enforced multitasking of today. And where she now finds herself is w…
Against all odds filmmakers continue to make fine works, adapting or creating stories not from comics or video games but exploring the human experience on our own planet.
Thursday morning when I learned the Academy's list of nominees, I spent the rest of the day alternating between despair and rage. In fact, I have loved movies unabashedly since I was 18 mont…
The long-awaited Lesbian ID is now available to American citizens, undocumented residents, and loud if wealthy non-American visitors. To find out whether you are eligible to receive your Les…
When we first meet Frannie, the protagonist of writer-director Liz Tuccillo's debut feature, Take Care, she's fresh from the hospital, arm in a sling, leg in a brace, being wrangled from a c…
I first met MB Caschetta more than 20 years ago when she was a student at Vassar College attending a reading I'd been invited to give. In a room filled with bright young lights she stood out…
The lush new production of You Can't Take It With You boasts at least a half-dozen such turns, brimming to near-bursting from a piece that juggles slapstick and drama and somehow manages to …
A surprise casting coup and an insider's glimpse behind the scenes: Dick Scanlan and Beth Malone discuss the road to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' contemporary reboot of Meredit…
Love feels almost witnessed rather than created, immersing us in one particular story by reflecting how we all interact daily, the casual intimacies and the deep, frustrations large and smal…
After opens like a horror story. An ominous undertow pervades its early frames, giving us the feeling we are watching a scary movie that will tighten its screws and escalate our dread until …
The baffling pleasures of Piece of My Heart and the problem with today's musicals.
"We understand any movie about lesbian hookers to be universal, whether or not you've actually seen one,"...
So much noise has surrounded the release of Abdellatif Kechiche's controversial Palme D'Or-winning film that several clarifying points may help potential viewers navigate the sound and fury.
John Tiffany's revelatory new production gives us a Glass Menagerie unlike any that have preceded it.
In our binge-watching era, the chance to be immersed in a young playwright's psyche is an idea whose time has come. Lucy Thurber's works are consistently compelling, and intelligently, if un…
Why watching the movie Fruitvale Station is an experience unlike any other.
Far From Heaven in light of the Supremes; changes for Vanya and Sonia and Natasha and Pierre
Once upon a time Joss Whedon wrote a TV show about a teenage girl who was basically Superman. Not a muscle-bound...
Adapting or reviving a classic work is fraught with peril. Two shows and two films that got it right, and what rules they obeyed along the way.
The downside and lure of solo shows, from Holland Taylor's Ann to Megan Hilty's Joe's Pub turn.
Let's consider, shall we, some of The Guilt Trip's cinematic mother-son precursors, and how their various mammeles stack up on the scale of believability.
