Iditi Bennan Kapil's "Agnes" Praised by Critics
IdIiti Brennan Kapil has a good reason to be smiling. (This pic was taken a few weeks ago when I interviewed the playwright at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven where her new play, "Agnes Unde…
IdIiti Brennan Kapil has a good reason to be smiling. (This pic was taken a few weeks ago when I interviewed the playwright at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven where her new play, "Agnes Unde…
Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School on Thursday night for "A Visit From the Goon Squad" (Knopf), a wildly inventi…
DOLLHOUSE Director Bridget Kathleen O’Leary’s decision to cast against type, with Sarah Newhouse as a surprisingly strong Nora and Will Lyman a remarkably sympathetic Evan, makes…
Pipeline Theatre, Off Off Broadway By O'Hagan Blades BOTTOM LINE: Good Brecht. See this if you think theater should have a conscience. Or if you loved those choose-your-own ending bo…
"Circle Mirror Transformation" with Steve Key (Schultz), Carmen Roman (Marty), Lori Myers (Theresa) and Joe D. Lauck (James). THEATER REVIEW: "Circle Mirror Transformation" ★★�
A. O. Scott looks back at Walter Hill's 1979 dystopian drama "The Warriors."
Catherine Russell, a longtime cast member of Off-Broadway's Perfect Crime, met Cal Ripken, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, on Tuesday, March 1 at Borders Columbus Circle. Ripken was…
Catherine Russell, a longtime cast member of Off-Broadway's Perfect Crime, met Cal Ripken, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, on Tuesday, March 1 at Borders Columbus Circle. Ripken was…
Once a month on Sunday afternoons, I meet with eight exceptional playwrights who congregate for a shared love of playwriting. Many of them are also accomplished TV and film writers, but they…
Two-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda participated in a conversation with Center Theatre Group's artistic director Michael Ritchie at a special CTG/Artistic Director's Circle Ev…
Have you seen "The Red Shoes?" Please share your thoughts.
Sadler's Wells, LondonAt the beginning of the Forsythe Company's I Don't Believe in Outer Space, the dancer Dana Caspersen, wife of the choreographer William Forsythe, voices a bizarre dialo…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe idea of turning 60 brought William Forsythe a small but shocking recognition of his own mortality. Yet the work he choreographed in response was neither powere…
A. O. Scott looks back at Mike Newell's 1997 crime drama with Johnnie Depp and Al Pacino.
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced casting for Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, to run March 3 - April 3. Jesse Berger will direct the production. The play involves fi…
A. O. Scott looks back at Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's film about loss, memory and love.
In a new feature, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, film critics of The New York Times, will take questions from readers.
Olympia Dukakis, the Academy Award-winning actress who is currently starring in Roundabout's THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE will appear for a reading of Brooklyn Story with the boo…
"I feel that everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was because I believed in his integrity and I believed in his heart," said the T…
The winners of the 31st London Film Critics' Circle Awards have been announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Social Network won for film of the year, as well as for screenw…
A sign for "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" towers over 42nd Street in New York. (Getty) When the Supreme Court of the United States decided the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W…
Actress America Olivo is full of surprises.The first time she was on the Mr. Media Radio show, ostensibly to promote a new movie called Circle, she did the interview from the basement of the…
By now we hope all fans of the work of Kenneth Tynan have made plans to catch Philip Goodwin's solo performance in Tynan, about to close this weekend at Studio Theatre. While most of the cri…
I don't know about what happened at your home, but as soon as that first review of Spider-Man hit the 'web' Monday night, my phone started ringing, my twitter started tweeting, and things I …
A. O. Scott looks back at Sydney Pollack's 1982 comedy "Tootsie," about an actor who dresses as a woman to land an audition.