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SXSW 2023: More Than Movies, It’s Past, Present and Future
The SXSW Conference has movies, music, comedy, science and pop-culture.
Read More »Theater Reviews (NYC): Shakespearean Improv from As You Will, Comedy-Memoir ‘GynoKid’ from Claire Ayoub at FRIGID Fringe Festival
Two funny and very different shows, one from an unusual improv troupe, the other from a performer who grew up in a rather unusual family
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Where Are You? (New York)’ – Dances with Death
In her collage-theater piece 'Where Are You? (New York)' Singapore- and New York-based creator Sim Yan Ying 'YY' explores many of the ways we deal with a loved one's death – including dance, music and humor.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dead + Alive’ – a Comic, Macabre Clown Show
Comedy, juggling, music and the macabre mingle in this darkly riotous clown show.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Voice of Dust and Ash’
This remarkable film brings Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian to life with passion and joy.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘L’Amour à Passy’ Spotlights Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary War Sojourn in France
'L'Amour à Passy' offers a memorable Madame Brillon but an unappealing Benjamin Franklin in this new two-hander.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs’ from Flux Theatre
Flux Theatre takes on the climate crisis with a dystopian theatrical vision drawing on Greek myth, glam rock, and time travel.
Read More »Theater Interview: Pulitzer Finalist Kristina Wong on Solo Pandemic Comedy ‘Sweatshop Overlord’
"I like projects that come to an end. That's probably why I can't see myself running a theater company because it perpetually goes on forever."
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Complicity’ Explores #MeToo in Hollywood
An absorbing, pungently played exploration of the stark truths and confounding complexities that spawned the Hollywood edition of the #MeToo movement.
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