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Wednesday, Dec. 13

Oliver Platt. Gabriel Byrne. Jennifer Connelly. Lili Taylor. Giancarlo Esposito. Tom Conti. Hope Davis. Bebe Neuwirth. Tom Everett Scott. Jennie Garth. Adam Goldberg.

You could assemble a pretty good feature-film cast with all of the unemployed or soon-to-be-unemployed television actors wandering around New York. That’s because the fall television season has Read More

Broadway’s Not-So-Wild Party

At 7:30 on June 4, Gabriel Byrne stepped out of a black Town Car in front of Radio City Music Hall looking every bit as forlorn as the depressive drunk James Tyrone he’s been playing in A Moon For the Misbegotten . While the B-plus list celebrities, whom the American Theater Wing had rounded up Read More

With Tension Mounting, It’s Tony Tip-Off Time!

And the envelope please! Here are my tips for this season’s Tony Awards in a number of major categories. The awards will be announced to a breathless nation on June 4 and, for a change, I shall be resisting my annual vaudevillian turn on the insanity of the entire proceedings. After all, it wasn’t too Read More

A Tale of Two Satans, or the New Hollywood Theodicy

I’m beginning to think there may be something to the idea that Hollywood films contain satanic messages. But I’m not sure it’s a bad thing.

The thought first occurred to me after getting into a long discussion with a friend about the conflicting satanic subtexts of Angel Heart , a criminally underrated chiller, and a Read More

A Performance of a Lifetime Makes This Moon Momentous

The new production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Walter Kerr Theater is a wonderful achievement on every level, and I trust that in years to come those of us who saw it will proudly say, “We were there.” It is, quite simply, one of those nights at the theater that Read More