Vanessa Redgrave

Touring England, But Feeling OK About It, in "The Robinson Trilogy"

Who Got Screwed Out Of A Golden Globe Nomination?

​A whole LOT of people. And they're pissed, baby. I mean they should be pissed, though they're no doubt carrying on with great dignity and occasional bouts of inner screaming.

Coriolanus

​A whole LOT of people. And they're pissed, baby. I mean they should be pissed, though they're no doubt carrying on with great dignity and occasional bouts of inner screaming.

Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstein. Not only was The Artist voted best picture and its director Michel Hazanavicius anointed Best Director ... More >>

Much Ado About Very Little in Anonymous

The Shakespeare exposé no one has been waiting for

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case Is Getting A Law & Order Episode

​The next season of Law & Order: SVU will feature an episode about an important European official visiting New York who is accused of rape. Remind you of anything? Franco Nero, an Italian actor and husband of Vanessa Redgrave, will play the ersatz Strauss-Kahn character.

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

James Earl Jones Used To Work At The Voice!

​ I know this for a fact because the great actor told me about it last night! I was at Bridgewater's, where the formidable James Earl Jones was getting the Monte Cristo award from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Michael Douglas, Hal Prince, Leslie Uggams, and James' Driving Miss Daisy co- ... More >>

Tony Nominations! My Final Predictions!

​The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>

What's Wrong With Broadway? It's Not Just Spider-Man!

Bono's Peter Parker isn't the only thing that's crashing and boring

Julian Schnabel's Miral: Muddle-East Politics

Bono's Peter Parker isn't the only thing that's crashing and boring

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

Bono's Peter Parker isn't the only thing that's crashing and boring

Driving Miss Daisy Ticket Giveaway!

​ Want to see two legends--James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave--in the current Broadway revival of the Pulitzer winning Driving Miss Daisy? I'm giving away three pairs of tickets for the Monday February 7th performance, which is a very special benefit for the all impor ... More >>

The Language Archive and Driving Miss Daisy Offer Bittersweet Fables

A new play from Julia Cho, an old one from Alfred Uhry

HITCH A RIDE

Alfred Uhry's classic play Driving Miss Daisy

The Star-Studded Hollywood Invasion of Broadway Continues: Stiller, Kidman, Rock, and More!

​The last year in Broadway theater saw the appearances of names like Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Zeta-Jones not just on stages, but in the same award categories as their Loyal-to-New-York-Theater co-stars. The trending caused our own lead theater critic Michael Feingold to pen an epic scr ... More >>

Official Answer To My Question About The Driving Miss Daisy Billing

​ Just the other day, I asked why James Earl Jones has gotten billing ahead of Vanessa Redgrave in Broadway's imminent Driving Miss Daisy revival. They're both acting titans of the highest magnitude, but after all, Daisy is the title role and Vanessa's an Oscar winner.

Who Gets Top Billing in Driving Miss Daisy?

​The marquee is up for the Driving Miss Daisy revival on Broadway, and James Earl Jones's name is the first one listed! He's on the left and Vanessa Redgrave comes next, on the right. This might be an alphabetical way to handle two titans of such magnitude, but isn't Vanessa slightly bigger, ... More >>

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

​The marquee is up for the Driving Miss Daisy revival on Broadway, and James Earl Jones's name is the first one listed! He's on the left and Vanessa Redgrave comes next, on the right. This might be an alphabetical way to handle two titans of such magnitude, but isn't Vanessa slightly bigger, ... More >>

Will Vanessa Redgrave Incite the Jews by Playing One?

​Ever since it was announced that Driving Miss Daisy was coming to Broadway, with Vanessa Redgrave as the cranky old Jewish lady and James Earl Jones as her trusty driver, people have been polishing up the Tonys. But there IS a problem, as someone on a Broadway board has noted. Says the post ... More >>

Letters to Juliet, Fantasy Indeed

​Ever since it was announced that Driving Miss Daisy was coming to Broadway, with Vanessa Redgrave as the cranky old Jewish lady and James Earl Jones as her trusty driver, people have been polishing up the Tonys. But there IS a problem, as someone on a Broadway board has noted. Says the post ... More >>

The Oscars' Six Most Outrageous Moments

Statues of no limitations—the Academy Awards bring the crazy

Kate Moss Says She's Not 3 Months Pregnant

"Turning up on a modeling call--I still enjoy it, but it doesn't get me going," Kate Moss says (with the guidance of her collaborator, Philip Green) to New York magazine. That's why she's doing Topshop, her clothier. "With Topshop, you can go in and... you're on budget, major... you can go in and no ... More >>

How About You Offers Stellar Cast to the Saturday Night PBS Set

"Turning up on a modeling call--I still enjoy it, but it doesn't get me going," Kate Moss says (with the guidance of her collaborator, Philip Green) to New York magazine. That's why she's doing Topshop, her clothier. "With Topshop, you can go in and... you're on budget, major... you can go in and no ... More >>

Ay Dios Mio! Golden Globe's Bad Karma

"Turning up on a modeling call--I still enjoy it, but it doesn't get me going," Kate Moss says (with the guidance of her collaborator, Philip Green) to New York magazine. That's why she's doing Topshop, her clothier. "With Topshop, you can go in and... you're on budget, major... you can go in and no ... More >>

Keira Knightley's Hot New Screen Lover

Doing Atonement over platefuls of shrimp with James McAvoy. Jodie Foster goes out on the town, finally.

Self-Service Nightlife

Elvis sightings, ethnic humor, and tomcat cruising, plus a peek at Jodie Foster's panic room

Back to The Brig

The Living Theatre turns 60, plus Warhol, Woodfall, and Brazil in N.Y.

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

Haven Can Wait

Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

Male Parts, Female Parts—Parts for Everyone

Not only in Lady Chatterley, but also in Lake's and Polley's latest. (And even a role for tiny me.)

Idols Friendly and Faux

My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.

Grief Encounter

Joan Didion's stages of mourning

What's Hecuba to us? As Vanessa Redgrave plays her, strictly Ms. Monotony

Joan Didion's stages of mourning

Vengeance Is Hers

Vanessa Redgrave brings to BAM a character who's forced to take justice into her own hands

Grεεk Lovε

More timely than ever, Athenian classics storm New York stages

Film

More timely than ever, Athenian classics storm New York stages

Skin Games

Long live the new flesh: A plastic-surgery drama that literally makes the skin crawl

Film

Long live the new flesh: A plastic-surgery drama that literally makes the skin crawl

NY Mirror

Long live the new flesh: A plastic-surgery drama that literally makes the skin crawl

NY Mirror

Long live the new flesh: A plastic-surgery drama that literally makes the skin crawl

The Clarifying Fog

Integrity's Back on Broadway—Has Anyone Noticed?

NY Mirror

Integrity's Back on Broadway—Has Anyone Noticed?

Was Tony Blair Listening?

Britain's Anti-War Majority Rallies in London, Gets Heard

Saltwater Taffy

Britain's Anti-War Majority Rallies in London, Gets Heard

Awake and Talk!

Britain's Anti-War Majority Rallies in London, Gets Heard

Private Prisons

Britain's Anti-War Majority Rallies in London, Gets Heard

The Glitterati Attack Ken Starr

When the President Perjures Himself, Is He Above All Laws?

NY Mirror

When the President Perjures Himself, Is He Above All Laws?