A caller reported a man, with his face painted like the Joker from the Batman movies, acting suspiciously at a movie theater. When the police arrived they discovered he had a warrant and the suspect was arrested. Police Arrive On The Scene Police arrested a man wearing “Joker” makeup at a Florida movie theater Wednesday after someone reported […]
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Early Shakespeare theatre unearthed in London
Shakespeare’s first theater has been discovered under a London Pub. Construction workers renovating behind a pub in London made an awesome discovery, the remains of a Shakespearean theater dating back to 1577. The Curtain, predating the more famous globe theater, was likely the spot of the first performances of Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Dominic Dromgoole, Current Director […]
August Sonata
TITLE: THE BEST INTENTIONS DIRECTOR: BILLE AUGUST WRITER: INGMAR BERGMAN THE BOTTOM LINE: Bergman’s back and Bille’s got him, for a handsome soap opera with a radiant star performance.
I’M Going to Detroit
The hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. , near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds
We’re too smart these days. We’ve grown so inured to the often unbelievable nonsense on television, or the absurd chain emails we gather in our inboxes, that the idea of a hysteria-inciting radio play is laughable
The Ways of Opus Dei
In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately.
Broadway Review: ‘War Horse’ Enters the Winner’s Circle
The first thing to marvel at in War Horse, the import from London that has just opened at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, is, of course, the horse. He’s a tall, chestnut-colored steed named Joey, embodied onstage by a life-size puppet manipulated by three fully visible puppeteers
Sentenced to Serving the Good Life in Norway
The seagulls begin squawking at 6 in the morning and the cigarettes cost too much, but Lars, 41, knows there are worse places to call home. On Bastoy, an island 46 miles south of Oslo, he and 124 other residents live in brightly colored wooden chalets, spread over one square mile of forest and gently sloping hills
On the Backs of Blacks
Fresh from Ellis Island, Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal.
South by Southwest: The New Sundance for Film Deals?
Though it isn’t always official, every party has a guest of honor.