A Streetcar Named Desire

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine Returns to a World That's Not Quite Earth

Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Times Critic Who Didn't Like Him

He calls Ben Brantley some sort of "odd, shriveled, bitter Dickensian clerk." Bear in mind that Brantley didn't care for Orphans, which Baldwin stars in, and that might have something to do with Baldwin's opinion. Meanwhile, the actor says he sorely misses the genius of ex Times critic Frank Rich ... More >>

Beauty and the Vernacular Beast: Street-Art Meets Ballet at Lincoln Center Art Series Opening

Hunter S. Thompson, in his landmark book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, said that "every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." Re ... More >>

Pam MacKinnon, Sam Gold, and Oliver Butler: A Directors Roundtable

Three of New York's best talents sit down with the Voice to talk Edward Albee, bad actor traits, and why Shaw will have to wait

BACK IN The USSR

Uncle Vanya with star power

Nicole Ari Parker: Hope for Black Women and Obesity

By now you may have heard about the British study that found black teenage girls don't benefit from exercise as much as white teenage girls do. Researchers in the UK monitored the eating and exercise habits of 1,148 girls (roughly half were black and the other white), and calculated the Body Mass ... More >>

A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

The Tennessee Williams classic gets a multiethnic Broadway staging

This Week in the Voice: Bail is Busted

This week in the Voice, out today: Nick Pinto busts bail and explains how jail really works, writing about OWS and incarceration: "As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inne ... More >>

Streetcar Of Color Opens: My Review

The fact that the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streetcar Named Desire has a multicultural cast turns out to be a non issue. As long as the poetry is served, it doesn't matter what color the actors are, especially if they're game for the challenge. And in this ... More >>

Movie Stars Who Turned Down Legendary Roles

We all know about classic stuff like Cary Grant making sure they cast Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady instead of him, and Doris Day not tarnishing her image by doing The Graduate--a part that would have resulted in her still working today. But here are some other weird cinematic decisions, courtesy of ... More >>

Rebecca The Musical Is Coming After All

Earlier this year, the musical version of Rebecca put up its Broadway marquee but had to take it down when the full money didn't surface. Well, one of the stars is telling people it's on again! Mrs. Danvers can sing to paying customers!

BLEAK HOUSE

Ivo van Hove reimagines Cries and Whispers

'Last Tango in Paris' and 'Deep Throat' Signal End of the World

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 8 Cock-tale parties on the East Side by Andrew Sarris Scorpio would never have made the connection if he had not been partying all week up and down the East Side Gold Coast where, as it so happens, "T ... More >>

Beautiful Burnout and The Method Gun: Haymakers + Playmakers

Productions from Scotland and Austin punch in to St. Ann's Warehouse and Dance Theater Workshop

Ivo van Hove Renovates The Little Foxes, Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the World Drifts Downward

New York Theatre Workshop and the Atlantic Theater open their seasons

Martin Scorsese Finally Tells His Hero How He Feels

Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

Swing-dancing, Fringe-watching, Montauk-visiting—almost relaxing

Mexican Graffiti

It's still Ike's era for immigrants

In The Grand Manner, A.R. Gurney Looks Back at Broadway's Past, and His Own

Lincoln Center mounts a story of stagestruck youth

Edgerton Brothers' The Square Confuses Body-Pileups with Plot Twists

What's Up With Jeremy Renner's Sexuality?

You'll never guess who I saw on my latest outing.

HEY, STELLA!

Cate Blanchett tries to stay alive

Jazz Score

The Dark Secrets of the Belgian Avant-Garde

Or, How Director Ivo van Hove Rehearses Molière's The Misanthrope

Life in Hellman

This revival of Toys in the Attic stirs up New Orleans' inner hurricane

Method to Her Madness

Carroll Baker breaks down in this early '60s melodrama

Jumping the 'Streetcar'

What would happen if Kowalski met Katrina?

Rack Focus

Tee Season

You cool kids are all wearing those zany slogan T-shirts? How quaint.

NY Mirror

Remembrance of Obies Past

Judges from the last five decades pay homage to the productions and artists they'll never forget

Unexciting Ride

What is Streetcar's dull competence good for? Showing what's not dull about Streetcar.

The Big Easy Does It

Temptation awaits in New Orleans

NY Mirror

We Love the '80s!

Brecht's Mother haggles and battles her way into the future

NY Mirror

The Politics of Groping

A Cure for Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Grab Men Back

Sontag in Wonderland

Auteur Director Ivo van Hove Brings Some Radical Will to ‘Alice in Bed’

Waves of Faves

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

The parent trap

The Parent Trap

A Formalist Affair

Will audiences blanche?

Director Ivo Van Hove drives a peculiar 'Streetcar'

The Great American Opera

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

Private Prisons

NY Mirror

Why the resistance to Cher's single? One insider told me, 'American radio doesn't go for older artists.' Perhaps they'd like some of her boyfriends.

Stell-a-a-a!