Zoe Kazan

Clive

Baal Buster

Ethan Hawke Goes for Brecht in Clive

Taylor Swift Is Playing Joni Mitchell

There's a movie in development based on Sheila Weller's book Girls Like Us, about various female singer/songwriters who helped shape the modern sound. Taylor Swift has been cast as Joni Mitchell, and the hissing of the summer lawns will have to drown out anyone's reservations about that. And here' ... More >>

Live: M83 Sparkle At Central Park

M83 Central Park Summerstage Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Being forced to watch that Victoria's Secret commercial over and over again. M83 are at a crossroads. Last fall's daringly expansive Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, coupled with its equally cinematic long-form video components, unabashed comm ... More >>

Ruby Sparks

Triplets Separated At Birth?

Three currently hot actresses happen to share a similar unconventionally attractive look and comic chops from the heavens. Zoe Kazan, 28, is an eccentric, doll-faced creature who has done theater (The Seagull, Angels in America) and film (Me and Orson Welles, It's Complicated) on the road to comple ... More >>

THE STAGE NETWORK

Jesse Eisenberg stars in his own play

Fall Arts: Theater Picks

Going the Distance With Meek's Cutoff Director Kelly Reichardt

Meek's Cutoff: Western Disunion

Happythankyoumoreplease: A Gently Worthless Script of Emotional Awakening

Year in Film: 10 to Watch Out for in 2011

The Millennium Recedes: Looking Back at Angels in America

The Signature Theatre and Michael Grief remount Tony Kushner's seminal play

A Tale of the Toronto Film Festival

With more than 250 films to see, there is no one, definitive festival experience. Here's mine.

Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan

The Public Theater presents director Nicholas Kent's production of The Great Game

This Week's Voice: Fixing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gorillaz, Bob Blank, Liars, SXSW Cheat Sheet, and More

The Liars, acting out a scene from the sequel to The Hangover. Photo by Zen Sekizawa​In this week's Village Voice, Jason Gross on how to fix--or blow up--the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Miles Marshall Lewis plays around with Gorillaz, Andy Beta talks with space-disco-and-beyond-producer Bob Bl ... More >>

The Duchess of Malfi and A Behanding in Spokane

John Webster and Martin McDonagh seek some revenge

Zoe Kazan Seizes the Day in The Exploding Girl

Coming-of-age, done right

HAND JOB

Check in to playwright Martin McDonagh's motel

Johnny Depp Remembers Heath--And Other Oscar Treats

Showstoppers and rip-offs in the blowsy movie musical. Plus: Paper's Nightlife Awards

This Week in the Voice

​Sailors used to roll around the city like Gene Kelly, but security concerns and technology have changed things, and now they mostly stay on the ships or, if they're lucky, at rare havens like the Seafarers & International House. The men whose boats brought you almost everything you have are m ... More >>

'The Next Director: So  Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray' at BAMcinématek

Richard Linklater's Orson Welles Puts on Quite a Show

Pippa Lee, Desperate Housewife

Married in the 'burbs—can we really expect anything but comatose?

Star of The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan (Yes, that Kazan) Breaks Through

Tribeca Film Festival 2009 Guide

This Week's Voice: Neko Case, Asher Roth, Sonic Youth and Merce Cunningham, Tribeca Film Festival, Tyson, Lit Seen, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla joins with the rest of Neko Case's lovestruck/dumbstruck audience. Zach Baron on the upper-middle-class and rising rapper Asher Roth. Rob Trucks walks down Broadway with Scottish indie-pop enclave Camera Obscura. Jason Gross at Merce Cunnin ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Photo by Star Foreman. You're going to love Zoe Kazan. She's Hollywood royalty (granddaughter of Elia Kazan). She's been on Broadway and in movies, one of which, The Exploding Girl, debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival. Melissa Anderson interviews her. You may also view Star Foreman's photo slidesh ... More >>

Forbidden Broadway Looks deeper; The Seagull and 50 Words Look Shallow Next To It

The last laugh

Disillusioning America

Mamet draws big laughs, Inge draws some tears, Ethan Coen draws a blank

A Year Is Born

The theater district gets its own Twelfth Night, complete with kings bearing gifts

Jonathan Marc Sherman's Brothers Grim

Prodigal playwright dries up, writes mediocre comedy

Brood Awakenings

In three plays by young women, malfunctioning families cry out for repairs

Unnecessary Evils

Find the theater dull lately? A lot of theater-makers seem to want it that way.