Elaine May

Brooklyn Film Festival 2013 Picks

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

New Hollywood's apex

SMALL WONDERS

A trio of short works

Mikey and Nicky

OH BROTHER

Ethan Coen takes it to the bar

Relatively Speaking Is Relatively Lame

Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, and Elaine May scribble up shorts for Broadway

Woody Allen's Back On Broadway: My Review

​Three playlets written by superstars obsessed with bad parenting add up to an uneven, unsatisfying evening that makes you want to run back to mommy. First, Ethan Coen's slender Talking Cure has a postal worker (Danny Hoch) being prodded to talk through his rage by a mental institution doctor ... More >>

To Save and Project Fest: Long Live Cinema!

For a month at MOMA, digital is not the savior of cinema

Woody's New Play: Guess What It's About? (Spoiler Alert)

​Don't read this if you don't want to know what happens in Honeymoon Motel, the Woody Allen playlet that appears in the Broadway evening Relatively Speaking, alongside works by Elaine May and the Coen brothers.

Ishtar

Elaine May! Stacy Keach! Otto Preminger! It's the 1971 Obies!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 27, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 21 27 Receive 'Obies' for '70-'71 By Clark Whelton The 16th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway theatre awards were presented last Monday night. A crowd of 700 gathered in the Village Gate to cheer the 27 winn ... More >>

Eugene McCarthy Gets a Harsh Heckling by Edward Albee

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 28, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 4 The Candidate From Parnassus By Frederic Morton We're in 1971 and Presidential noises are loud in the land, coming from guys good and bad. I'm trying to remember the sounds of a Great Good Guy, hear ... More >>

Dustin Hoffman, Jules Feiffer, Other NY Liberals Go GaGa for Eugene McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 23, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 32 The Limits of Power In a Garden of Delights by Michael C. D. Macdonald At first, things don't look good. Backstage, a network reporter complains, "no crowd releases, seats look a bit empty as the show st ... More >>

A New Leaf

Angels in America

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce and the Hipper Than Thou

Dead Man Walking

May Days

Recapping a reclusive auteur's brilliant career, from the Jewish new wave to a legendary bomb

Dismaying Experience

Elaine May's triple bill of one-acts: Out-of-date studies of people who've run out of dates

J. Hoberman's Top Ten

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A Turkey Season Songbook

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The Vulgar Classes

Ways and Meanings

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