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Charming but toothless, Quartet is genteel light dramedy marking the directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman. "I like to see what... read more

Tom Hooper's (The King's Speech) extravagant movie adaptation of the long-running musical version of Victor Hugo's tale of the... read more

Documentary filmmaker Yaron Zilberman (Watermarks) leaves an indelibly touching impression with his feature film debut, writing and directing a simple... read more

Funny, vulgar, blood-soaked, and stocked with wall-to-wall whackos, Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths showcases the Anglo-Irish... read more

Bad-boy director William Friedkin (The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A.) has definitely not mellowed in... read more

The multitude of Step Up Revolution trailers popping up recently leaves more than a few groaning, "There's another... read more

Veteran actor Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with a fearless adaptation of William Shakespeare's devastating take on cults of personality,... read more

As a three-dimensional form, dance is best seen live. Film, no matter how clever, is a poor substitute for the stage. But Wim Wenders' 3D documentary,... read more

Like many artists, Gustav Mahler was concerned with life, love and death. A new film, Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler's... read more

Second albums are tough, especially if the first album was well-received. Thankfully, after several listens, the sophomore slump phenomenon doesn't... read more

Only hardcore ballet buffs and dance historians know the name René Blum, but Judith Chazin-Bennahum has set out to right this wrong. The story of... read more

The Live from the Met HD broadcast of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor was eagerly awaited. All read more

How many times have you heard that ballet is the foundation of all dance? Yes, modern, jazz, lyrical and contemporary dance are all rooted in ballet, but... read more

John Adams’ minimalist opera, Nixon in China, started out as a production for the Houston Grand Opera (co-commissioned... read more

Have you ever wondered what your favorite singers might have in an iPod playlist?

Fans of Fort Worth native and Tony-winner Betty Buckley know that... read more

One hundred years ago, The Met commissioned Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West.  The composer was in New York... read more

Quirky comedy was the original calling card for playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who proved himself adept at looking at life through an askew lens in the... read more

Shakespeare’s The Tempest exists in that rarified air of delighting audiences, directors, actors and scholars alike. There... read more

You would never think that blood oozing out of a fingertip could be so unsettling, but it is in the psychosexual thriller Black Swan,... read more

One of things actors do when they are working on a show together is share war stories. It would be a safe bet that anyone who has ever worked on a production... read more