HAPPY DAYS are when we get to see a hugely gifted actress hold the stage almost alone, practically without moving, for two hours, and conjure up the entire universal human experience. That is EXACTLY what happened this week when Brooke Adams and her husband and co-star Tony Shalhoub appeared in Samuel Beckett's OTHER absurdist masterpiece HAPPY DAYS, presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in residence at Babson [...]
The film hits you like a slap in the face. WHIPLASH is not just the name of Hank Levy's eccentrically metered jazz tune, but it describes the dangerous dynamic between a young drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his bullying instructor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) at an exclusive music conservatory. Andrew takes a licking and keeps on ticking in one of [...]
Will they be holiday hits? Will they win OSCARS? Add these to my Fall Movie Preview list for a complete big screen Holiday Movie Guide! (11/14) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING He's the English-speaking Einstein--British physicist Stephen Hawking--whose book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME made us all think we could almost understand the theory of everything. This biopic stars [...]
Sunday, November 16 7 PM Worcester's Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts 2 Southbridge Street Worcester | MA | 01608 Featuring Pat Metheny, Chris Potter, Giulio Carmassi , Ben Williams, Antonio Sanchez Email your name and phone number and tell us why you love Pat Metheny! 3 winners will be chosen for a pair [...]
INTERSTELLAR is "INTER-less than-STELLAR," but at least it reaches for the stars. Just opened in IMAX and theaters everywhere, INTERSTELLAR, Christopher Nolan's gorgeously shot and directed 3-hour extravaganza, is an immersive experience, part sci-fi adventure/thriller, part family saga; but the meshing of those elements by way of a screenplay co-written by the brothers Nolan-- Jonathan and Chris-- -is [...]
It's nuts out there on the boards! We've got bad Jews & displaced Hindu gods, dead poets and long lost lovers wrestling with love. Here we go! BAD JEWS: This is a real crowd pleaser written by Joshua Harmon, and directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, now breaking records over at SPEAKEASY STAGE. It's raucous and funny and plunges us right into [...]
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary passes to Fathom Event The Met: Live in HD 2014! Please e-mail fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with your full name, address and phone number, PLUS “The Met” in the subject line. Be sure to indicate which show you are requesting! The tickets will be for Showcase Legacy Place. THE SCHEDULE: Carmen Live: Saturday, November 1st at [...]
I love a good thriller. I love a good mystery. I love to be scared-- at the movies. I love Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Together? Heaven! Or hell? I went hoping for the former, and left feeling like I'd fallen from a great height. Kidman and Firth co-star here in the mystery thriller BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP [...]
There's a whole lotta theater goin' on-- here's my take in short: ETHER DOME presented by The Huntington Theatre Company at BU is neither a gas, nor did it put me to sleep. Billed as a medical thriller about the very first surgery performed under anesthesia in 1846 under the "dome" at MGH, the real story is fascinating, but the [...]
-- This is the first truly great movie of the fall and one of the BEST OF THE YEAR, with OSCAR written all over it. BIRDMAN stars MICHAEL KEATON and a breathtaking cast of actors who knock themselves out in a flabbergastingly audacious backstage look at actors, viral media, critics, fame, art, relationships, truth, artifice, and reality. [...]
