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

The Bard’s Cabaret Act

The Bard’s Cabaret

Act

Relentlessly searching for new ways to make Shakespeare fun

for the uncultured masses in a contemporary commercial market, filmmakers have

taken liberties with the Bard of Avon before (the court of Richard III became

the Third Reich and Ethan Hawke’s recent Hamlet drove Ophelia wild on a cell

phone), but Read More

Phantoms: A Silly Spook Show … Kenneth Branagh: From Hamlet to Hellbent

Affleck’s Lousy;(11)O’Toole’s Soused

Several otherwise serious people disgrace themselves in a stupid little spook show called Phantoms , based on a book by Dean Koontz, a writer of supernatural potboilers who has previously seen his works limited to the television screen. Mr. Koontz, who has also co-written the screenplay of Phantoms , has always Read More