Franz Kafka is trapped in an endless argument with the man who inspired all the inscrutable tyrants who populate his writing: Franz's own father. Dylan Hoffman reviews.
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The French director and dramatist reveals how he pushed Hopkins into giving one of the most wrenching performances of his career in an unflinching dementia drama also starring Olivia Colman
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In 1919, German-Bohemian writer Franz Kafka wrote a 47-page letter to his father. It was never delivered. Now, in 2021, James Rutherford and Michael Guagno have created a one-man cinematic s…
Academy Award winners Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins lead the adaptation, which is now out in select theaters and will be available to stream on demand March 26th.Â
To Musa Mayer's dismay, her father, an antiracist and the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitic persecution, was now having his complex images misrepresented and their subject matter re…
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At the start of MTC's new virtual reading of Richard Wesley's short play "The Past is the Past," available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jones, Emm…
The other day we shared a post showcasing pairs of famous people who possessed the same name. Today, a variation on a theme, only with one of the stars chiefly famous for sharing the name of…
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Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central…
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(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity; Photo of Michael Guagno: Bailey Bretz; photo of scene: Eileen Meny Photography.) Brooklyn, NY " M-34 presents Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, translated …
There is much I know about John Forsythe (Jacob Freund, 1918-2010) that would not tempt me to write a blogpost about him. For example, he was the voice of Charlie on the original Charlie's A…
Review: Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas, Lyric Hammersmith4.0Overall ScoreIt is a year unlike any other and so it should not come to anyone's surprise that Christmas is not like any other e…
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist just cast another Broadway talent. Chip Zien is set to play Skylar Astin's father in the musical series, according to TVInsider. The NBC show returns f…
Woolly Mammoth's production of This Is Who I Am, written by Amir Nizar Zuabi to be performed live via video conferencing, is a powerfully intimate show. Directed by Evren Odcikin, it feature…
Domestic pain and culinary craft combine to quietly wrenching effect in 'This Is Who I Am,' a Zoom drama by Amir Nizar Zuabi streaming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Filmmaker Sun Yang discusses his recent documentary about visual artist Ma Liang, also known as Maleonn, and the creator's attempt to tell a story of family, reconciliation and reclaiming lo…
