Three documentaries on cultural figures of near-religious obsession held center stage the first weekend of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Two of them, Susan Lacy’s probing but self-contradictory “Jane Fonda in […]
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“Boulevard” and “Unexpected” – Highlights from Montclair Film Festival Day 10 #MFF15
One of the last films to star Robin Williams and an Unexpected end to the festival.
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Montclair Film Festival Highlights Day 9: Top Spin, Me and Earl and The Dying Girl
Two memorable films.
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#MFF15 Highlight from Day 4: Sleeping With Other People
A brilliantly funny and well acted romp.
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#MFF15 Highlight From Day 3: Slow West
Slow West This enormously entertaining Western takes some time to pay off, as its name might suggest, but once it does, it’s satisfying in the extreme. The feature directing and […]
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Montclair Film Festival: A Look Back At Day 2 #MFF15
What have you seen so far?
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South Pacific at the Paper Mill Playhouse: Tales of a Time Long Past, Still Familiar
There is nothing like South Pacific, in any form, at any time.
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Danza Dazzles In Paper Mill Playhouse “Honeymoon in Vegas”
Near-explosive, joyous energy is the reason “Honeymoon” succeeds.
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Star-Crossed Lovers, Fire and Motorcycles. What Could Go Wrong?
“Romeo and Juliet,” now playing on Broadway, is immensely enjoyable.
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Big Trouble in Little Academe
No love for “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
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Colin Quinn Unconstitutional at the Cherry Lane Theater, NYC
A 75-minute tour-de-force of loving criticism for America and all it holds dear.
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Kinky Boots – It’s Not Just Girls Who Want To Have Fun
The audience is a feral beast that cannot be restrained in its manic applause.
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Two Men, Two Guvnors: Shakespeare in the Park The Comedy of Errors
One of the most delightful productions of any Shakespeare piece I’ve ever seen, and is close to perfect in every conceivable way.
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The Last Five Years: A Love Story, In — and Out of — Chronological Order
Sweet, sad, and beautiful, the Second Stage Theater production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years (through May 18th at the Tony Kiser Theater) is irresistible in every sense […]
