By Rex Reed 4/17 8:30pm

movies

Keaton in Darling Companion.

Someone Call Peta, This Darling Companion Was Left Out In The Cold

Failure is no disgrace at the movies. Rain falls so often in every first-rate director’s life and career it becomes part of the territory, and comebacks are inevitable. But when a veteran cast of wasted champions goes down for the count before the director even yells, “Action!” disappointment doubles.

Nobody survives a train wreck like Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion without Band-Aids, but Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest and Sam Shepard might need sutures. Read More

By Gillian Reagan 3/31/08 4:24pm

Katie Holmes on Broadway?

First Katie Holmes tackles Tom, then childbirth. Next up, the Great White Way? Ms. Holmes may emerge from her post-Suri cocoon to flutter onto a Broadway stage next season. The Dawson’s Creek star is in negotiations to appear in a revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons. The play is based on Read More

By Gillian Reagan 1/03/08 10:25pm

Alan Cumming to Play Dianne Wiest's Lover in Seagull

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will play Trigorin, the lover to Dianne Wiest’s magnetic actress, Arkadina, in Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play, The Seagull, at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). It is to be directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev, artistic director of the Moscow New Drama Theatre. Previews begin on Feb. 20, with opening night Read More