Ronald Keaton is a delight as Britain’s wartime leader in Churchill, written by Keaton and nicely directed by Kurt Johns. Keaton brings the English leader back to life in an admirable show that is extraordinarily informative.
Several Oscar Best Picture nominees have been lashed by critics for their misguided history. These movies are just the latest in a long line of very good films that have been chastised for distorting history.
What do Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Mary Tyler Moore, Eddie Cantor, George Gershwin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Gleason, Spike Lee and Joan Rivers have in common? Brooklyn!
History lovers will enjoy the play. Playwright Morrison puts you right there in center city London amid air raid sirens, radio pre-war broadcasts and newspaper headlines.
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead succeeds because of Fugard’s superb script, but it soars, too, due to the superior acting of Atandwa Kani as Styles, the passport schemer, and Mncedisi Shabangu as Sizwe.
Many theaters and entertainment complexes are not only showing silent movies to a growing number of film fans, but hosting these large, weekend long silent movie festivals that draw thousands of people.
The Big Apple Circus has become an historical icon in American entertainment as one of the most successful circuses in the country and a trailblazer as a one ring show.
A review of "The Imitation Game." The power of the film is the ever urgent need to crack the Nazi code amid the nearly non-stop bombing of London and other areas of England by the German Luftwaffe and, later, V-2 rockets.
The Shakespeare Theatre has done a wondrous job of moving Shakespeare’s play forward 340 some years and, at the same time, placing it in the Christmas season.
In film after film, he underscored history or, in contemporary films for him, gave later generations of Americans a fine look at the 1940s, 50s and 60s as through the lenses of his cameras.
There is trouble in the world today? Serial killers? Arsonists? The thugs of ISIS? Don’t bother with the CIA, FBI, Interpol or the NYPD. Get Sam Spade!
The fabled Catskills resorts, with their fabulous nightclubs, began to die when the jet airplane started carrying vacationers to Florida and the Caribbean in the 1960s.
There are far more films, made for television movies and television specials than ever on television thanks to the explosion of channels and the desire of television executives to air more holiday shows.
Side Show is the sensational story of the Hilton twins, Violent and Daisy, who gained fame in the Great Depression when they became stars of a circus side show, the movie Freaks and a touring show of their own.
Grand Concourse is a well written look at the latest in a long line of soup kitchens that have saved the lives of millions of hungry Americans over the years and the people who run them.
