Rodarte, Wang, Thakoon to Design Eveningwear for Gap

On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will once again swell with celebrities, socialites and fashion editors for the annual Costume Institute Gala to kick off the this year’s exhibit titled “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.” But since this year Gap is the official sponsor and Gap creative director Patrick Robinson is honorary co-chair Read More

Make Way for Mamet the Didact!

David Mamet’s new play is here! The play that was to be Mamet, back in classic Mamet form! With a plot so incendiary that nothing about it could be revealed before performances started! With its poster and Playbill cover featuring only a simple, sexy shot of a shapely black woman’s legs in a slinky, red-sequined Read More

Race to the Top: Three New Films on Black and White in America

Lakeview Terrace
Running time 110 minutes
Written by David Loughery and Howard Korder
Directed by Neil LaBute
Starring Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

Neil LaBute’s Lakeview Terrace, from a screenplay by David Loughery and Howard Korder, based on the story by Mr. Loughery, explores our interracial malaise at Read More

An Old Story: Her Husband Is Sleeping With His Wife

We are never shown the errant spouses, though Mr. Chan is

heard once. Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan resolve not to behave as their errant mates

have done, but the strange thing is that Mrs. Chan actually means it. Besides,

the degree of stylization achieved with an unseen husband and an unseen wife

makes it Read More