Shortly after watching Speak No Evil, I went back to my original review of the 2022 Danish horror sensation of the same name directed by Christian Tafdrup, and noticed that […]
Under the direction of Dame Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque Orchestra gave a spirited performance of musical chestnuts at Ravinia’s Martin Theater on Tuesday night. In doing so, it […]
First Date, directed by Christina Ramirez, with a script by Austin Winsberg, slams us with all the goofs and hiccups of modern dating, which, without the bubbly, rambunctious soundtrack and […]
He may currently live in Los Angeles but Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago and recently returned for the run of his one man show, Royko: The Toughest Man in […]
The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]
Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]
Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]
This post was written by Tory Crowley. It Ends With Us doesn’t market itself as a sad, serious drama addressing the complexities of intimate partner violence. I mean, who would […]
Few filmmakers merged the personal and professional as gracefully as producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of art-house cinema in the mid-1980s, […]
While this new Casey Affleck-starring work, Slingshot, is set up like a science-fiction story, in reality it’s a tense acting exercise couched in a psychological thriller. The whole thing is […]
It has been a hot summer in New York, in more ways than one. On Broadway, 24 shows continue to draw large crowds, with several musicals and plays reaching near-capacity […]