Denzel Washington is a great actor, but as varied as his performances can be, he doesn't change his aspect very much. The talky boastful energy and toothy sunburst smile, the defiant alertne…
“La La Land,” in theory, is a movie that needs no explanation. The simplest thing you could call it is “an old-fashioned musical” " which means, of course, that it's …
“Fences,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, was written in 1983 and had its premiere on Broadway in 1987. But the play is set 30 years before that, in a lower-mi…
A big-spectacle Broadway production is, quite visibly, a collaborative effort " actors, sets, choreography, costumes, lighting, orchestra. On rare occasions, though, beneath the razzle-dazzl…
The movies, in case you didn’t notice, are having an LBJ moment. It began two years ago, when Tom Wilkinson played President Lyndon B. Johnson in “Selma” as a cagey but cou…
Now that the Summer of Rehashes is over, a lot of people suddenly seem to agree that remaking movies, especially when they're beloved and indelible classics, is a lousy idea for Hollywood to…
There was a moment back in the 1970s, sometime before "Grease" came out, when the image of people bursting into song and dance in the middle of a motion picture wasn't simply corny and antiq…