The Royal Family is a sharp and witty play, carried by marvelous actors, and lights up the skies of early summer. It is a gem of a play and a nice historical look at the 1920s in New York, Hollywood and Europe.
Turner Classic Movies has joined forces with On Location Tours to put together a thoroughly enjoyable ride through the history of New York films, from the locations for "On the Town" to "King Kong," "Ghostbusters" and "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."
There are still 40 very offensive films that are not allowed to be shown publicly (except at scholarly events). Now clips of them have been spliced together in a bristling new documentary.
Last Days in Vietnam is an intriguing look at the fall of Saigon, but it is often quite misleading in its larger depiction of the Vietnam War and its meaning.
If you want to really get a good laugh at the expense of William Jefferson Clinton and his wife Hillary, see Clinton: the Musical. It is uproarious, a brilliant and rousing story of the Arkansas Ramblers.
At the end of An American in Paris, you want to stand up and cheer for the show, but you want to stand up and cheer for all the brave men and women who fought the Nazis in the French Resistance, too.
The new, revised musical, said to be headed towards Broadway, is a lustrous story that really brings the history of Paris in 1482 to life in all of its glory, and in all of its poverty and misery, too.
The play is like a ship that needs a big breeze in its sails, but history lovers will enjoy it because it presents a lot of little known information about slavery in America.
