fragments inspired by stage and screen
American Masters — Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun A film by Nancy Buirski movie web site [entire film view-able here] [In addition to off campus ventures to attend and review professional theatre offerings […]
Jersey Boys Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay and musical book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Featuring John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Christopher Walken movie web site [This is the second of five off […]
[re-posting of a 2009 set of musings, inspired by today’s showing of this film during 2014’s Turner Classic Movie’s “31 Days of Oscar”] A Thousand Clowns. 1962 play into 1965 movie […]
I have now indulged in three annual iterations (2011, 2012, and 2013) of complete lists of events that took me into a theatre or other kind of performance space during […]
I love reliving the year through this now annual summary of attendance at live performances and the occasional film screening. For this listing, all that’s required is my entry into […]
Company: Original Cast Album (1970) + Chance + Zelig-like friend Stephen Paley This is a post about serendipity: new friends, old passions, theatrical design, and Stephen Sondheim. I am surrounded […]
[re-posting of a 2010 set of musings, inspired by yet another re-viewing of this masterpiece courtesy of a December 5, 2013 showing on Turner Classic Movies] So I’m listening to […]
What: Harvardwood Presents Marge Champion (and a few surprise guests) When: Wednesday February 6, 2013, 7pm Where: LRN, 745 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY event web site The […]
[featured image caption: Grand Central Terminal circa 1935-1941. Crop of image from NY Municipal Archives.] So when I say almost every day that I’m off to the theatre, some may doubt me. […]
The Sound of Music (1965) Film Society of Lincoln Center: See it in 70mm! December 25, 2012 Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street event web site “I always try […]
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen October 18, 2012 — January 12, 2013 NYPL for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center exhibit coverage abounds, e.g. here […]
Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort Caroline Laskow, Ian Rosenberg Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 7:30pm JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue “With us it was never absentee ownership, […]
Horton Foote + Kim Stanley = Endless Delights Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote @ 59E59 (attended August 14, 2012) Studio One: The Traveling Lady @ The Paley Center […]
The Astonished Heart (1949) Film Events at the Walter Reade Theatre Coward on Film — part of Noël Coward in New York May 11, 2012 165 West 65th Street On the […]
May 2012 StoryCode Forum Guidestones and PunchDrunk Jay Ferguson, Colin Nightingale, Peter Higgin Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7pm Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Center Amphitheatre, 144 West 65th Street series […]
2012 Tony Awards Film Series: The Standbys Stephanie Riggs, Merwin Foard, Ben Crawford, Aléna Watters Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2pm The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street […]
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