“Green Zone” Review

It’s so frustrating to know that Roman Polanski makes great movies at least in part because he’s such a creep.

The easiest thing to say about “Next Fall,” a play by Geoffrey Nauffts that debuted last year at Playwrights Horizon and is now being “presented” on Broadway by Elton John and his life partner David Furnish, is that it is a moving, amusing and thoughtful evening at the theater. It is…

Two scenes in this docudrama, which tells the story of the Washington Post’s fight to publish “stolen government documents” detailing how the U.S. messed up in Vietnam, help explain to me why the two journalist-authors saw this as a play.
1. Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon talk…

Christopher Walken, who kills in “A Behanding in Spokane,” his 15th role on Broadway, is better known for the 100 or so movies in which he has performed, including Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow.” Right before that movie opened, I asked him in an interview how his role in it differed from…

In a scene from “Yank!” made to look like an old black and white movie complete with flickering lights, a young bandaged soldier lies on a hospital cot under the care of a tearful nurse.
“I did it! I saved em! The whole squad!” he yells out.
“Rest now,” the nurse says, before she…

In his current exhibition at Gasworks in London, Tim Etchells, artist and writer, shows a video of his performance piece “Art Flavours”. Originally carried out in Italy, the piece is a collaborative investigation into the flavor of art. Working with Italian gelato extraordinaire, Osvaldo…

This spring, two young New York City Ballet dancers, Tiler Peck and Kathryn Morgan, débuted in the role of Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.

In this video, they discuss their preparation for the role:

The ballerina who dances Aurora, considered one of…

While Sasha Frere-Jones might question the “authenticity” of the South African group, Die Antwoord, I’m willing to say that whatever the case, it’s early 2010, and we have a front-runner for sickest chorus of the year.