Mike Nichols

Clip Job: Lenny Bruce and the Hipper Than Thou

Economy Doesn't Stop George Soros from Enjoying Chekhov, Ethan Hawke

credit: Joan Marcus It's nice to know that the meltdown of the world economy is not preventing George Soros from enjoying classic Russian theater. The international financier was just one of a surprising number of notables taking in Wednesday night's opening of the Sam Mendes-directed The Cherry O ... More >>

CAN THIS BIRD FLY?

Great casting may make this one soar

Three New Productions Tackle Color Lines

Race and history trouble The Country Girl and Sound and the Fury; Thurgood gets them right.

World's Hardest Movie Quiz 2004

Race and history trouble The Country Girl and Sound and the Fury; Thurgood gets them right.

Answers to the World's Hardest Movie Quiz

Race and history trouble The Country Girl and Sound and the Fury; Thurgood gets them right.

Richard Avedon, 1923–2004

Who else would have put Genet, Chanel, Beckett, and Fabian within the same covers?

May Days

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

J. Hoberman's Top Ten

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

Through a Mirror Darkly

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

Agenda Bending

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

Three Sheets in the Wind

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

Striking Distance

New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

Theater

Hot Tickets

Gull Talk

Hot Tickets

I am Not a Camera

Stage Acting Versus NYC’s Hollywood High

Thinking Inside the Box

Test-Tube Babies

The Choler of Money

Test-Tube Babies

Flesh + Blood

Test-Tube Babies

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Test-Tube Babies

Back-Lot Dreams

New York's Mega-Studio: If We Build It, Will They Come?

Listings

New York's Mega-Studio: If We Build It, Will They Come?

A Fassbinder Masterpiece Gets Close to Cinephile Heaven

New York's Mega-Studio: If We Build It, Will They Come?

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New York's Mega-Studio: If We Build It, Will They Come?

Angels in a Changed America

From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

Delicate Balance

Not gonna take it Anymore: Dern on flawed relationships

Infernal Affairs

The art of four play: Cruel lies and crueler truths in a tastefully sordid relationship drama

Letter to the Editor

The art of four play: Cruel lies and crueler truths in a tastefully sordid relationship drama

Saving Martha

Is Albee's Virginia Woolf a great play? At any rate, it's one that can live again and again.

Fresh From the Can

Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

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Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

Dismaying Experience

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

Mother Knew Best

Georgia on our mind: An appreciation of the Squid director's film-critic mom

A Shag and a Shrug in an Entertaining but Corny Adaptation

Georgia on our mind: An appreciation of the Squid director's film-critic mom

Predator v. Predator

Everyone's miserable in Patrick Marber's latest, and it feels so good

Comforter Zone

Mattress springs eternal: 50 years of who beds whom, from Tea and Sympathy to Tim Miller

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie

Grounded: The Kite Runner Just Won't Fly

Still, controversy notwithstanding

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Still, controversy notwithstanding

Primary Colors

Still, controversy notwithstanding

Angels in America

Still, controversy notwithstanding

Clip Job: Who's Afraid of Andrew Sarris? (Maybe Mike Nichols Should Be)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

Andy Warhol Films Taylor Mead's Ass

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 30, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 7 The Homosexual Clown As Underground Star by Sally Kempton People have been saying for years that Taylor Mead will someday be discovered by the commercial theatre. This has never happened, at least no ... More >>

'The Graduate': Better Than the Book! (There Was a Book? Who Knew?)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 28, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 11 Films by Andrew Sarris "THE GRADUATE" has been adapted by Mike Nichols, Buck Henry, and Calder Willingham from a novel of the same title by Charles Webb. I like the move much better than the book, ... More >>

Theater

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 28, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 11 Films by Andrew Sarris "THE GRADUATE" has been adapted by Mike Nichols, Buck Henry, and Calder Willingham from a novel of the same title by Charles Webb. I like the move much better than the book, ... More >>

LAUGH LINES

Take a tour of Jules Feiffer's life

Andrew Stein, The Man Who Wanted to Be Mayor, Admits Tax Scam

​Former City Council President and one-time mayoral candidate Andrew Stein pled guilty yesterday to a $1 million tax fraud. This didn't rate big headlines since Stein long ago faded into the city's rearview mirror, which is where he always belonged. If he was spotted at all in recent years, it ... More >>

The Huffington Post Didn't Steal Anything Except Your Labor and Content, Unfortunately

​It would be very easy to root against the liberal cleavage emporium, occasionally news-breaking, mostly news-aggregating behemoth The Huffington Post, whose most popular articles currently include "PHOTOS: Jennifer Love Hewitt In A Bikini" and something called "WATCH: The Wrong Way To Install ... More >>

Reviewing 'The King of Marvin Gardens' Not Knowing if Nixon Won

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 9, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 45 films in focus by Andrew Sarris By the time you read this column you will know the results of the 1972 election. You will know who won and by how large a margin, and everything you read will be color ... More >>

Cher Was Almost a Transsexual!

​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.