America Celebrates Citizen Welles of 1941’s Citizen Kane
Why is America still so crazy about Orson Welles after all these years?
View ArticleRonald Reagan Would Have Loved Rory Kennedy’s “Last Days in Vietnam”
Last Days in Vietnam is an intriguing look at the fall of Saigon, but it is often quite misleading in its larger depiction of the Vietnam War and its meaning.
View ArticleHe Did It His Way: ‘Ol Blue Eyes from Coast to Coast Again
An exhibit at Lincoln Center shows why Sinatra was such a hit.
View ArticleNew Documentary on Nazi Propaganda Films to Debut
There are still 40 very offensive films that are not allowed to be shown publicly (except at scholarly events). Now clips of them have been spliced together in a bristling new documentary.
View ArticleKing Tut: The 3,300 Year Old Greatest Show on Earth
The boy Pharaoh from the Valley of the Kings retains his star persona and remains the number one entertainment attraction in America.
View ArticleLights! Cameras! Action! New York’s TCM Classic Movie Tour Rolls On
Turner Classic Movies has joined forces with On Location Tours to put together a thoroughly enjoyable ride through the history of New York films, from the locations for "On the Town" to "King Kong,"...
View ArticleWe’ve Never Had More Ways to Discover History
Are we better off now that we can learn about the past from films and novels as well as history books?
View ArticleGive His Regards to Broadway: Cagney Back as a Musical
Cagney is a play that tells a lot of show business history and is a genuine hit.
View ArticleA Royal Family’s Look at the Roaring Twenties
The Royal Family is a sharp and witty play, carried by marvelous actors, and lights up the skies of early summer. It is a gem of a play and a nice historical look at the 1920s in New York, Hollywood...
View ArticleWhat Does the Film Leviathan Tell Us about Putin’s Russia and Its Past?
The plot revolves around car mechanic Kolya and a corrupt mayor.
View ArticleWhy We Love Prison Stories, from the 1922 Chain Gang Movies to Netflix’...
There has always been drama in prison stories, all the way back to the silent era chain gang films.
View ArticleAaarrgghh! Pirate Long John Silver and His 18th Century Swashbuckling Mates...
Avast, ye theater goers, the famed pirate Long John Silver, hopping about on one leg and his colorful parrot firmly on his shoulder, is back, this time in a new musical.
View ArticleRomping through 1900 London with a Murderous but Lovable Gentleman
Gentleman’s Guide, the kind of musical the Marx Brothers would stage if they were around today, is a wacky, wonderful journey through early 1900's Britain.
View ArticleAl Hirschfeld and a Century of Show Business History
Al Hirschfeld’s exquisite caricatures were a large part of American show business history.
View ArticleShakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1598 vs. Match.Com, 2015
This latest version of Love’s Labour’s Lost is a wondrous romp through the last decade of the sixteenth century.
View ArticleThe 100th Anniversary Funeral for "The Birth of a Nation"
Just about everything presented in Birth was historically wrong. Americans love it. What does that tell you?
View ArticleSayonara and 1952 Japan
The play, just as emotionally gut wrenching as the 1957 movie starring Marlon Brando and Red Buttons, probes racism in 1952 Japan, while the U.S. Army was in its waning days of occupying the country.
View ArticleThe Perfect Murder: 1978
Deathtrap is undergoing a superb revival at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, part of the Berkshire Theatre Group’s summer season, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
View ArticleThe 1970s Feminist Heroine and Who She Left Behind
Whatever happened to all of the firebrand 1970s freedom-now feminists who filled the covers of the news magazines? What happened when the photographers went away? It's the plot of a new play.
View ArticleBack in in the Days before Voice Mail
A review of "Bells Are Ringing," a new production of the 1950s hit play that explores the now-strange and exotic world of a telephone service girl.
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