Push Rewind: Looking Back at the Movie Music of 1992, Part 5
1992 was not only a banner year for movies, it was also a banner year for movie music – more than the Academy Award category for Best Song could adequately…
Alas From the Past: “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window”
To Be Young, Gifted and Black was the title of both a play and later an autobiography, posthumously performed and published following the death of Lorraine Hansberry, at the age…
Happy Fortieth Anniversary to the Series Finale of “M*A*S*H”
Forty years ago today, television history was made when CBS aired the series finale of “M*A*S*H.” The massively successful show – a spinoff of the 1970 Robert Altman film that…
Sibling Rivalry Revelry: The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Season 13, Episode 3 recap
Oh, this episode hurt – and not for the reason you might think, the (ever)ongoing feud between Teresa and Joe and Melissa and now Luis. No, as a Jackie stan,…
Happy 25th Anniversary, “Ray of Light!”
Twenty-five years ago, Madonna’s album Ray of Light was released. Madonna, who also co-produced and co-wrote some of the songs on the album, was enjoying a career high, following the…
Push Rewind: Looking Back at the Movie Music of 1992, Part 4
1992 was not only a banner year for movies, it was also a banner year for movie music – more than the Academy Award category for Best Song could adequately…
The End of the World As They Know It: “Endgame” review
Irish Repertory Theatre has once more revived Endgame, Samuel Beckett's confounding work about the end of...something. At the center of Ciaran O'Reilly's production is the blind, chair-ridden Hamm (John Douglas…
The Great American Hovel: “The Wanderers” offers inconclusive scenes from a marriage
There are a lot of themes afoot in The Wanderers, Anna Ziegler play that just opened tonight at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater, but it won’t take long to unpack them,…
Between Riverside and Crazy
A New York theatre stalwart gets the spotlight he so richly deserves – a second time Eight seasons earlier, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy took New York City…