The supreme pleasure of the revival of The Pajama Game at the American Airlines Theatre is its almost unbeatable score. The popular 1954 show itself is no Guys and Dolls, but its music and lyrics, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, are a perfect example of the joys of the all-American musical comedy at its Read More
The supreme pleasure of the revival of The Pajama Game at the American Airlines Theatre is its almost unbeatable score. The popular 1954 show itself is no Guys and Dolls, but its music and lyrics, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, are a perfect example of the joys of the all-American musical comedy at its Read More
Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa (“The Holy Girl”), from her own screenplay, slithers along as a highly controlled sex comedy that is unusually civilized in comparison to the more prevalent crudities in movies these days. With her first two films (the first was 2001′s La Ciénaga), Ms. Martel, not yet 40, has demonstrated a mastery Read More
Michael Hoffman’s William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream materializes on the screen as a mélange of miscalculations. Let me count the ways. First, the colorful hyperrealism of the Tuscan settings for the Athens scenes makes the murky fairyland habitats manufactured in Rome’s Cinecittà studio look more lugubrious than liberating. Then there are the obtrusive anachronisms Read More
