The Crimson Petal and the White is a four episode TV series offered on Acorn TV that fascinates and engages. London during the Victorian period has never appeared so realistic and raw, so atmospheric and Dickensian.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Maids’ by Jean Genet
Transposed to New Orleans, the French classic still poses difficult questions about action and inaction, masters and servants.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman’ – The Criterion Collection
Many of us hold our regular visits to the cinema during our youth in high regards. Whether it was a weekly visit to the matinee double features with friends, or the frantic anticipation of standing in line for the next big Franchise of the Day flick, we have fond memories …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The English Bride’ by Lucile Lichtblau
An interrogation room, and two separated suspects, once lovers, questioned by a Mossad agent about a terrorist act they may have committed. Whose story should you believe?
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Atomic Jaya’ by Huzir Sulaiman
It isn't every day that a local play, about local people and local issues, comes along that is as funny or more so than the best-heralded comedy from the West
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’
Daniel Radcliffe is riveting as the young Allen Ginsberg in this intriguing film that chronicles the surprising story behind the birth of the Beats.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Lord of the Flies’ (1963), The Criterion Collection – Kids Can Be So Cruel
There’s a saying in the film industry that suggests one never work with animals or children due to their inability to act on cue. Or act, period, for that matter. In 1961, British director Peter Brook threw all caution to the wind and decided to film an adaptation of William …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sarah Flood in Salem Mass’ by Adriano Shaplin
A new take on the run-up to the Salem witch trials proves a gripping work with echoes of Shakespeare as well as 'The Crucible.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Dish for the Gods’ by Victor L. Cahn
Julia Reynolds, the celebrated writer, has planned to deliver a "talk" but finds the truth intrudes on her presentation.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle’ by Ross Dungan
Hit by a car and killed, 58-year-old Eric Argyle awakens into a bewildering procedural nightmare.
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