Susan Lieu’s solo show title is 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother, but it’s more a personal story. Directed by Sara Porkalob, the 75-minute story ran November 14-17 at […]

Nellie McKay is a true treasure. Seriously folks, ever since I stumbled upon her album way back in 2004 in a music thread on an old comic book forum (jinxworld […]

Can we agree that Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play about hope and the will to keep on, belongs in the category of buddy films?  Two guys hanging out at […]

Jonny Polonsky hasn’t put out that many albums since his debut Hi My Name Is Jonny in 1996, but he’s still been pretty busy during that whole period of time. […]

How to describe A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable)? It’s a funny and curious theater piece being staged by Curious Theatre Branch at its […]

It may seem odd that Don Giovanni, the opera premiered by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, has taken on new social relevance more than 230 years later. But the recently […]

The combination of Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen (acting for the first time together in the film) seems like a fool-proof combination, especially in the hands of director Bill Condon […]

In the history books, the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program will also be known by its simpler and far more loaded name: torture. The ill-advised program was created in the […]

We’ve gotten to the point where I just trust director James Mangold to get it right—whatever the subject matter of one of his films, he’ll find a way to tell […]

Angel Olsen may have been fighting a cold during her show last night at the Riviera, but that didn’t stop her inner queen from shining through. “I have a case […]

Sometimes a movie just has to be really fun and sharp to get my attention. It doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel or break the mold; it just has to […]

There are major life events all of us are familiar with, whether or not we’ve experienced them for ourselves. A wedding or the birth of a child. The death of […]