Heathers The Musical — Off Off OnlineFor at least two decades, musical theater has been adapting existing intellectual properties that have had cultural impact with teen audiences, such as Hairspray , Mean Girls , and the recent production of Beetlejuice . Heathers the Musical , a 2014 iteration Jul 17 25July 17, 2025Article at offoffonline.com
Point Loma — Off Off OnlineIn life, people are all haunted by one thing or another. For some, it might be love, loss, or anything in between. For the characters in Tim Mulligan’s latest play, Point Loma , what haunts them are literal ghosts. The play explores the supernatural with an immersive production by the Manh Jun 09 25June 09, 2025Article at offoffonline.com
Woof! — Off Off OnlineAt first glance, Hannah Gadsby’s Woof! feels like a show strung together with seemingly disparate threads, starting with the performer’s entrance on to the stage at the Abrons Arts Center’s Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, where Gadsby, who uses Oct 09 24October 09, 2024Article at offoffonline.com
A BATTLE OF TWO SELVES:KENJI TSUKAMOTO’S ‘ASHIMA’ AND HOLLY M. KAPLAN’S ‘SUNFLOWER GIRL’ As one might expect, all of our selections at the Asian-American International Film Festival cover a wide range of perspectives across various diaspora – from men and women, to the… Aug 08 24August 08, 2024Article at asiancinevision.org
A New MusicalThe Past, Present, & Future of Musicals on Film. “This is our vibrant theatrical present as much as it is our storied past […] Indeed, in its human scale, and place-and-time-bound specificity, theatre is the art form most likely to seem always on the… May 23 24May 23, 2024Article at Frame Rated
Stranger Sings!When the fourth season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things premiered this past summer, it seemed like the show’s popularity had reached its zenith. From pushing a certain decades-old Kate Bush song back onto the Billboard Hot 100 to causing fangirls… Sep 24 22September 24, 2022Article at offoffonline.com
Joyful Noise: Anna Kohler’s “Immense Joy” Brings the Works of Clarice Lispector to Vivacious LifeThe specter of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector pervades the stage at Immense Joy, a new production devised and directed by Anna Kohler, and presented by The Tank NYC. At the height of her fame, Lispector’s name (originally Chaya Pinkhasivna… Sep 17 22September 17, 2022Article at The Resident Artist
My Onliness.Echoing through the halls and into the New Ohio Theatre’s performance space is My Onliness, a daring new experimental work co-produced by the New Ohio, the collective One-Eighth Theater, and IRT Theater. Written by Robert Lyons, the artistic director… Sep 10 22September 10, 2022Article at offoffonline.com
Show Girl Showstopper: Andrea Bell Wolff Dazzles as She Recalls her ‘Adventures in Vegas’There’s nothing like a pandemic to make you a little nostalgic. At least, that was definitely the case for performer Andrea Bell Wolff, who opens her show Adventures in Vegas with a scene at a pandemic-era birthday gathering. From there, Wolff dusts… Aug 03 22August 03, 2022Article at The Resident Artist
Girls Aloud: What I Watched, September-October 2020As I wrote earlier this year: “The role of third-wave feminism certainly took its hold in the cinema of the 2010s. Women in the 21st century are allowed, more than ever, to be imperfectly perfect creatures: kind and compassionate, cold and… Jan 17 21January 17, 2021Article at The Resident Artist
Festival Notes: ‘For the Love of Docs’ 2020It takes a certain kind of person to imagine a different world than the present one they’re living in. Such seems to be the running theme found in the line-up of DEADLINE’s recent For the Love of Docs Film Festival—or, at the very least, in the… Dec 08 20December 08, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Netflix’s ‘Rebecca’ Resurrects the Gothic Romance for a New Generation“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again…” As someone once said: you can’t go home again—but with a new adaptation of Rebecca, now streaming on Netflix, it seems that once again finds itself within our cinematic purview in the form of… Oct 26 20October 26, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Just Press Play: Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ (2020) is One Infinitely Good Playlist“Making a playlist is a delicate art. It’s like writing a love letter, but better, in a way. You get to say what you wanna say without actually saying it. You get to use someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. And then there are the rules:… Apr 26 20April 26, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
On the Rise: Jessie Buckley’s Star-Making Turn in ‘Wild Rose’There are star-making turns, and then there are star-making turns. And as much as I loved Lady Gaga in that other movie, nothing beats Jessie Buckley’s unforgettable, BAFTA Scotland-winning performance as Rose-Lynn Harlan in the Tom Harper-helmed… Apr 24 20April 24, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Best of the Decade: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ (2010)What gave Black Swan its most enduring legacy (aside from the seemingly endless font of memes it inspired that year) was its unique twist on the psychological thriller. A nod to the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger classic, The Red Shoes, Darren… Mar 11 20March 11, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Best of the Decade: Mark Romanek’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ (2010)In great contrast to fellow best-of entrant Inception and others of its ilk released the same year, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s eponymous novel, subverts the usual expectations of a science-fiction narrative,… Mar 05 20March 05, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Best of the Decade: David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ (2010)“Creation myths need a devil.” At the risk of subsequently praising nearly every film released that year (and sounding like a cheap imitation of a sommelier), it must be said that, yes, 2010 was a very good year for film. Kicking off the decade in a… Feb 29 20February 29, 2020Article at The Resident Artist
Rebel Yell: ‘Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl’ at DOCNYCFest 2019Over the last decade or so, singer-songwriter-actress Kate Nash has developed a reputation (and obvious penchant) for defying others’ expectations. Filmed over five years as the British singer moved to Los Angeles and began writing and recording new… Nov 18 19November 18, 2019Article at The Resident Artist
Music to Move the Stars: Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ is a Dizzying Confection of Dreamy NostalgiaFor nearly the past twenty years or so, movie-musicals have seen a resurgence in the public consciousness. One such film that has done so, and with as much fanfare (or perhaps even more so), is none other than Damien Chazelle’s own ambitious take, La… Jul 03 19July 03, 2019Article at The Resident Artist
A Diamond in the Rough: Marina’s ‘Love + Fear’ Explores Multiple Facets of Human NatureFor singer-songwriter Marina Diamandis, it seems as if her identity has forever been inextricably linked with her music. When she arrived on the scene with her 2010 debut The Family Jewels she was known then as Marina and the Diamonds, a moniker… May 04 19May 04, 2019Article at The Resident Artist
