Film & Stage Reviews
Lover’s Stormy Suicide; Hytner Triumphs With Farce: U.K. Stage A desperate and stormy climax is
brewing in the orchestra pit. On stage, a towering metal
billboard threatens to fall with a crash.
‘Mountaintop’ Surprises at Olivier Awards; Rylance, Weisz Win “The Mountaintop” by U.S. writer
Katori Hall was named best new play in London theater’s Laurence
Olivier Awards last night.
Aniston Snatched by Bounty Hunter; Jude Hunts for Organs: Film My favorite bounty-hunter movie is
“Midnight Run,” featuring Robert De Niro as a divorced cop
hired to capture an unlikely criminal for a big paycheck.
Hammy Feinstein, Dame Edna Join Egos in ‘All About Me’: Review “All About Me” on Broadway is a
folie a deux starring Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna) and
Michael Feinstein, which may strike you as likely as a joint
recital by Renee Fleming and Beyonce: What could these two
possibly have in common?
Rogue Rock, Snakes and Shakes, Baroque Gems for N.Y. Weekend The four-member band Portugal. The
Man started out in Wasilla, Alaska, but unlike Sarah Palin they
come by the description “rogue” honestly. Their iconoclastic
sound ranges from traditional rock to hippie to blues to hip-
hop, all of which will be on display Friday night at the
Highline Ballroom.
Stiller Builds Doghouse; Kristen Explodes ‘Cherry Bomb’: Movies Reminded by a friend that “life is
wasted on the young,” Roger Greenberg goes one step further.
Patti Smith Misbehaves, Queen Loses Head: Great London Weekend Watch the blindfolded Queen of
England get ready for execution as the first stop on your
London weekend.
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Offers Primer on Horrible Writing: Review Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play (her
375th) “The Book of Grace” may not be the worst ever written,
but it surely is the worst by a winner of both a Pulitzer Prize
and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who teaches at New
York University and is the first-ever holder of the Public
Theater’s Master Writer Chair.