Sam Mendes

Lens Flares and the End of Film

Skyfall Lays Bare the Unknowable Spy

License to feel

The U.K. Way: A Week of London Theater

From rebelling tots to rocking Shakespeare

Kevin Spacey Growls Through Richard III

Villain hates idle pleasures in a harsh, angry Bridge Project production at BAM

This Week in the Voice: Victoria Jackson, Tea Party Princess

This week in the Voice, out today: Gus Garcia-Roberts profiles Victoria Jackson, chronicling how the former Saturday Night Live star became a Tea Party darling: "Her comedy career, which took her from Johnny Carson's stage in Los Angeles to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, long ago squeaked it ... More >>

BLOODY GOOD

Kevin Spacey takes on Richard III

Atys: He'll Take the Nymph

Jean-Baptiste Lully's masterpiece French-Baroques its way back to BAM

Kate Winslet Cancels Out of Autism Premiere

​The big draw for tonight's premiere of HBO's A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism was the little lady who did the narration--someone by the name of Kate Winslet. Several journalists I know were planning to go in hopes of cornering Kate to ask her, not about autism, but about her upcomi ... More >>

Winslet and Mendes Breakup: The Oscar Curse Again?

​ I'm a big believer in the Oscar curse on celebrity marriages: When one party in a couple wins the award, especially if it's a woman, the relationship often crumbles to the curb even harder than Meryl's chance for a third trophy. It's just too much for a show biz ego, particularly a male on ... More >>

Equivocation and The Tempest Show a Weak Will; The Miracle Worker Works No Wonders

STORMY WEATHER

The Bridge Project presents The Tempest

This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

Time Stands Still and As You Like It Link Love to Wartime; Shepard's Ages of the Moon Refights Old Battles

MIND THE GAP

America and England join hands for Sam Mendes

Letters

This Week's Voice: Jane's Addiction, 'Muslim Voices,' Francis Ford Coppola, The Hangover, Exit Art's 'Negritude,' The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, and More

Jared GruenwaldTropicalia in Furs In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Charly Wilder tracks down an East Village storehouse of Brazilian psychedelia at Tropicalia in Furs. Phil Freeman on the Jane's Addiction reunion and three-CD, one-DVD box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities. Andy Beta talks ... More >>

Dave Eggers's Away We Go a Work of Staggering Something

Summer Guide: Surveillance, Jennifer Lynch's First in 16 Years

HIPSTER PARENTHOOD

Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida tell you about making babies

Alexi Murdoch

This Beautiful City, Our Town, and Winter's Tale

Plays about place oddly displaced

COOL ROMANCE

The Bridge Project presents The Winter's Tale

In BAM's Cherry Orchard and MTC's American Plan, Mixed Emotions Produce Mixed Results

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 >>

I Guess It Wasn't Exactly a Triumph or Anything: Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road

In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

MIND THE GAP

The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

Winslet and DiCaprio Awake to Yates's Revolutionary Road

Mothers and Other Animals

Gypsy is younger than ever, but LuPone's Madam Rose is the maddest yet

Oh, The Humanity of a Heist

Noir screenwriter makes strong directorial debut; Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

Rack Focus

Rack Focus

Autobiographical Rap Movies In Trouble

Weathering the Storm

The waiting is the hardest part in Mendes and company's Gulf War frustration meditation

Film

Revival of the Fittest

Old's Always Better; the Hard Part Is Making It New

NY Mirror

Thames the Breaks

London's Winter of Theatrical Discontent

Stock Manipulations

Is It Reinventing, or Just Recycling?

Industrial Symphony

Crime Out of Mind

The New Thought Police Don't Care What You Do—Only What You Imagine

Flashbacks: The Year in Movies

Boomer Bust

Boomer Bust

The Last Picture Show

The optimist's guide to the Millennium's final fall-movie crop

Film Previews

A rundown of the season's movies— handpicked for their potential wondrousness or probable woefulness.

Guare the Heart Is

Re: Bourne

British choreographer brings boy birds to Broadway