NEW YORK — Yasmin is asleep outdoors, bathed in the orange glow of her space heater, when a man sneaks up to steal her source of warmth. A young woman alone, she appears defenseless to this stranger, an easy target — until she snaps to alertness and springs on him with a violence that’s almost feral.
NEW YORK — In the script, the list of murdered girls and women goes on for more than eight pages, in gruesome detail — so many rapes and shootings and stranglings, so many body parts chopped off.Kenya The New York Times entertainment18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — On the phone with his interview subjects, J.T. Rogers had to keep hitting the mute button. He was weeping, and he didn’t want them to hear.Kenya The New York Times entertainment17 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Obie Award-winning actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine got married last September on a rooftop in Brooklyn, but the honeymoon to St. Kitts had to wait. One of the most valuable performers in some of the boldest new off-Broadway work, she can seem almost omnipresent on New York stages. You might assume a show got in the way.Kenya The New York Times entertainment17 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — It matters who you know, and in 1997, 21-year-old Jason Eagan knew almost no one in New York. But quality can indeed make up for quantity. One contact — illustrator Ian Falconer, now of “Olivia” fame — ushered him into a glamorous downtown crowd. Another, Julie Taymor, pointed him toward a behind-the-scenes job on “The Lion King.”
NEW YORK — A clipboard in her hand, a tiara on her head, the queen was drafting her country’s constitution, the sort of idealistic undertaking that requires the mulling of common values. So she sought out a citizen and bounced a question off him.
NEW YORK — The story of the sisters Procne and Philomela is one of the truly gruesome Greek myths, full of rape and murder and bloody mutilation — but also, and this is rather nice, tremendous sibling devotion. For “Weightless,” a smart retelling of it as an indie-rock opera by Bay Area band the Kilbanes, that love is the core of the legend.Kenya The New York Times entertainment10 Aug 2021
NEW YORK — The warning to the audience outside “Chambre Noire,” a shadowy astonishment of a show from Plexus Polaire at the Under the Radar festival, is a remarkable mini catalog of things to come.Kenya The New York Times entertainment12 May 2021
NEW YORK — After a bit of brawling and a spate of North Pole deaths, after the Candy Cane of the Apocalypse is unsheathed to ward off evil, the lamb with seven horns and seven eyes is borne aloft by a malevolent ghost.Kenya The New York Times entertainment4 Jul 2019
He was there, on a Sunday evening in late June, to perform his version of the Gospel of John — not as a sendup or radical rethink, but as an act of testament, the religious text edited down to 90 minutes.
NEW YORK — Hugh Jackman is a shape-shifting master of showbiz: as the big-screen Wolverine, ripped and brooding; as a charismatic song-and-dance man, ripped and Broadway.
That is to say, a prostitute. Which, up until their courtship, Bairbre had been — a fact she conceals from her darling naïf so she can make a new start with him.
The real-life ad series that this spot was part of landed on a Time magazine list of Top 10 Embarrassing Celebrity Commercials, so we’re not talking about great art here.
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