Busby Berkeley

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

For Me and My Gal

Gene Kelly @ 100

The everyman dancer astonishes again

Why I Hate Theater! Appalling!

Read my column now or see the musical later

Newyorkland and Untitled Feminist Show: Cops, Nudes, Art!

Temporary Distortion meets Young Jean Lee at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

Musicals Based On Movies: What's Next?

​Billy Elliot, Priscilla, and Sister Act have carried on the time-honored tradition of turning popular movies into musicals. What next? I'll tell you: *Fatal Attraction The adaptation--titled Crazy Bitch, The Musical--will feature a well-chosen bunch of Sondheim chestnuts. ("You said you l ... More >>

Noémie Lafrance Would Like to Push You Around

It's crowd control at The White Box Project

Arias With a Twist Triumphs Again

​After a series of curtains dramatically open onto each other one by one, a kaleidoscopic light show erupts, followed by an overture played by a puppet orchestra. And on comes the star in full dominatrix gear, strapped to a neon hoop that rotates as aliens probe and examine him and he belts o ... More >>

Sister Act: A Hard Habit To Break? My Review

​Kathleen Turner might be cursing and smoking up a storm in a play called High, but she's got nothing on the Sister Act gals. They're dolled up in glitzy habits and putting on Vegas-style revues in Sister Act, the rote but pretty enjoyable adaptation of the 1992 movie comedy about a down low ... More >>

GIRLS ON FILM

Experience the glamour of cinema

The Boy Friend

The Gang's All Here

Gold Diggers of 1933

Meet The Daisy Spurs

The Daisy Spurs are everywhere these days, like crabgrass, but far, far lovelier. A traveling floor show, they recently performed at our Obie Awards' after party at Webster Hall, and the other night when I sashayed into Spin Cycle's "Lust" party at Irving Plaza, they turned out to be the featured ... More >>

What Was Plato's Retreat Really Like?

In this week's column, I talk about American Swing, a new documentary about the legendary '70s sex club Plato's Retreat. Well, I've now seen the movie twice and here's the really shocking thing--it turns out the club was straight! Yes, you must believe me, it was a haven for rampant hetero sex! Br ... More >>

Nightworld

Footlight Parade

New Pool Party Brings Out The Cuties!

And finding people who, surprisingly, aren't all wet.

A Dozen Great Depression Double Bills at Film Forum

Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times at the Movies Again

Brother, can you spare $12?

2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

Social Climbing Through Politically Turbulent Times in I Served the King of England

Money changes everything in this dark but exuberant comedy

Steve Parrino at the Gagosian, Non-Declarative Art on Wooster Street

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Fringe Cringe

Another year of weak work at NYC's biggest theater fest

More Inconvenient Truths

China's industrial footprint, writ large

Rufus Wainwright's Release the Stars

An unsubtle symphony of diminishing returns

When the Fur Flies

Madly Ever After

Three weddings and a reality TV show

Errant Largesse

Adrift on a sea of glamorous trouble

Ids of Clay

Red Harvest

A fascinating but frustrating doc on the most watched Chinese movies of all time

Gold Digging: A Treasure Trove of Berkeley Classics

History-Making Footage

Summer Camp: Miranda and Montez's Technicolor Freak-Outs

Big Bang Theories

9 Ways of looking at 9 Songs

Film

Film

Behind the Musicals

The Need for Freed

Trestling Match

Wet and Wild

Full Carrafa

Twice a Contender

Off to See the Wizardry

Ready to Eat

Glitzkrieg

Into the Past

Celluloid Heroines

Our Century, Ourselves

Pirouettes and Pyramids

The Gods' Desire

NY Mirror

Rose is all angles and bedroom eyes— a '50s movie bad girl, but one who should never be reformed.