The Berlin Film Festival head defended actors and filmmakers who choose to avoid politics in press interviews in a lengthy statement Saturday night. Director Tricia Tuttle made the comments after actors like Neil Patrick Harris and Michelle Yeoh declined to comment on US political matters while attending the festival. Festival jury head and German filmmaker … Read more
Theater review ART Ninety minutes with no intermission at the Music Box Theatre. Much in the way that Serge’s two best friends cannot fathom why he purchased a totally white painting for $300,000, I fail to understand the enduring popularity of the play “Art.” French writer Yasmina Reza’s 1998 whine-and-cheese comedy, which opened at the … Read more
Thirteen years ago, Alan Cumming gave a “Sleep No More” attendee quite a shock. The actor was a surprise performer in the experimental production, which debuted in a Chelsea warehouse in early 2011 and will conclude its run on May 27, after several extensions. Wearing a vintage nurse’s outfit, he summoned one attendee into a … Read more
Steve Harvey was shocked into silence after Family Feud contestant and “A Star is Born” actor Willam Belli revealed a hairily hidden surprise during an episode of “Celebrity Family Feud.” The episode, which aired Sunday, featured cast members of the show “Drag Me to Dinner,” including Harris and his husband David Burtka, who faced a … Read more
I do believe in f – – kups! I do! I do! And that’s what “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” the happily hyperactive comedy that opened Wednesday night on Broadway, provides: missteps, mayhem, incapacitations, faulty sets and, in a roundabout way, “Fawlty Towers.” The very funny British play’s premise is the season’s simplest. The amateur Cornley … Read more
Fight as you may, but make one wrong move in today’s society and your time in the spotlight or in America’s good graces may very well be up. Cancel culture, or at least its nomenclature was first introduced into our lexicon courtesy of the smooth sounds of the synth banger “Your Love is Canceled.” The … Read more
Despite a near 20-year age gap, Neil Patrick Harris was a big fan of the Jonas Brothers — perhaps too big, some now say. Nick Jonas, 30, was still a twinkle in his parents’ eyes when Harris, 49, found fame as kid doctor “Doogie Howser, M.D.” Now, the “How I Met Your Mother” star is … Read more