Lights, Camera, Little Action
My wife and I watched four movies over the past couple of days: Moonlight: This won the Oscar for best picture, and I wouldn't even recommend watching it on a 16-hour plane ride unless you needed help sleeping. It's unbearably slow,
The Critic
We just got around to seeing Moonlight, the Oscar winning film, and I found it tedious and self-indulgent. It's as if someone found unfinished notes and published them as a book, not bothering to make connections, meaning, or dramatic tension.
Gabriel Kreuther: Dining Review
When we asked the concierge at the Baccarat for a good pre-theater restaurant we've never tried, she told us there was a terrific French restaurant on West 42nd. A good French restaurant on West 42nd?! Seriously? We're adventurous and wound up
Overdone Smug Conceited Arrogant Revolting: OSCAR
I've been watching the Academy Awards since I was a kid on black and white television, with Bob Hope hosting. I was always in awe of the glamour and good humor. After we were married, my wife and I made
The Mountaintop
Trinity Rep is currently performing The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (directed by Kent Gash). It takes place in a single 100-minute act in the motel room outside of which Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony. It is a
The Wrong Page
I would pay anything to see on stage, together, Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Holland Taylor, Robert Morse, Dann Florek and a gaggle of other fine actors. So I was happy to pay "normal" price for two,
Arcadia
The GAMM theater in Pawtucket, a jewel of a regional acting group, tries and usually succeeds at daring productions. The theater's size (perhaps 150 seats) creates an intimacy. Our front row-center subscription often creates the illusion that we're in the
Trinity Slays Beowulf
Take a cauldron, add in Cabaret, Rent, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Hair, then blow it up, and you'll find yourself immersed in Trinity Rep's brilliant Beowulf, now being performed through October 9 in Providence. You don't walk away from
Four Movies
I recently traveled about 40,000 air miles, to Sydney and back and then to Rome and back. So I watched four movies of fairly recent vintage. My reactions: Hail Caesar: This was the best of the four, a funny satire of old Hollywood
Hamilton: A Review
Well, I’ve joined a throng of people who were visibly self-satisfied at scoring tickets to Hamilton, bragging about their ability to pay and their perseverance. When the crowd enters the theater and sees the “official” pricing on the wall (the