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British playwright Mike Bartlett likes a good fight: between husbands and wives, parents and children, teachers and students, Europe and the Middle East. He likes a bad one...
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BAMcinemaFest
June 20 through July 1
An undeniably essential collection of emerging indie talent (as recently vetted by Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and other...
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So we're in a theater, to see a show, and this guy wanders onto the bare stage and starts talking. He's come there to talk to us—more exactly, he's there to recite Will...
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In a broken world not unlike our own, the state corrals a group of teenagers into a tightly controlled terrain and compels them to murder one another with an assortment of...
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To the late Alien Comic:
Hey, Tom Murrin! I don't think performance artists go to heaven, so I hope it's fun to haunt the P.S. 122 dressing room or the basement of Theater...
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A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about a long hiatus from moviemaking. Nearly three decades ago, Bud...
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The Woman in the Septic Tank is a cheeky backstage farce of the poverty-film genre frequently exported by developing nations—here, the Philippines. Offhand, I can think...
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As Mighty Fine's Joe Fine, a businessman who relocates his family from Brooklyn to Louisiana in
1974, Chazz Palminteri rages at everything and anything: at wife Stella (Andie...
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A narcissistic spectacle of male
grief, Redlegs charts the reunion of three twentysomething friends (two white and one Colombian) in their hometown of Cincinnati for the...
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Brazilian art-wizard Hélio Oiticica (1937 to 1980) was a rough contemporary of conceptual art, but his increasingly highly prized body of work has a funky magic all its...
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Famed travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer will deliver the inaugural H. Peter Stern Lecture, a series that celebrates the longtime World Monuments Fund Trustee, at the...
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Hunter Moore said he would set fire to the Voice's office if I wrote this. Actually, the 26-year-old's exact words were, "Honestly, I will be fucking furious, and I will burn...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19] Is there a difference in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multi-million-dollar violins created by master...
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Nutty funnyman—or funny nuttyman—Andy Dick recently swung around for the Tribeca Film Festival showing of Freaky Deaky, based on the Elmore Leonard book about...
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In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional North African nation Wadiya....
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Know this: Every time you wave away the dessert menu without even looking at it, a cook's heart shatters like a pane of burnt sugar. Every pastry chef dreams of hitting us...
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When Williamsburg's Egg cracked open seven years ago, it was at an auspicious time. The local and sustainable movement was in full swing, comfort food as a dining ideal loomed...
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Ask Greg Dulli about the set lists he and his bandmates in the Afghan Whigs—the Cincinnati soul-punk outfit that released a string of sucker-punch ruminations on bad...
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I used to startle people by including Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes among the great American novels, along with The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, and The Great Gatsby...
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The 57th Annual Obie Awards were given out at a ceremony tonight, May 21st, at Webster Hall in the East Village. The awards were presented by acclaimed stage actors Eric...
