“Stranger Things” Season 5 is a long way off (perhaps even as distant as 2026) due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. But to soften the blow, Netflix has dropped a video preview of the upcoming stage play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” which begins performances this month in London. “We were in the middle of … Read more
Re-enactment is not an unusual or particularly novel tool in documentary filmmaking yet recently it seems to have made a pointed resurgence — perhaps because the method has a distinct relationship to trauma and offers a compelling means of picking open old wounds for cathartic and/or healing purposes. Think “Framing Agnes,” “Procession,” and Nathan Fielder’s … Read more
Kevin Costner might not be coming back for the final episodes of “Yellowstone” Season 5, but he’s back on stage singing and strumming. The Academy Award-winning actor, who has played John Dutton on the Paramount Network drama series since 2018, recently performed an intimate set at Wyoming’s Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Costner, 68, was there … Read more
The Giants’ offensive line provided as much resistance as five folding chairs Monday night against the Seahawks, but ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky believes the Giants’ $160 million quarterback should be receiving plenty of heat too for the embarrassing display at MetLife Stadium. “It’s OK for us to expect more out of the performance of Daniel … Read more
“Found” offers a solid take on the procedural genre — with several novel twists. The new NBC series, premiering Oct. 3 at 10 p.m., stars Shanola Hampton as Gabi Mosely, whose high-profile, high-powered crisis-management firm, Mosley & Associates, finds missing people relegated to the margins of society (minorities, sex workers, etc.) and ignored by the … Read more
He’s your angel of music. Anderson Cooper went viral on TikTok Friday after he appeared to be caught off guard when a song from “The Phantom of the Opera” began playing at a Donald Trump rally in South Dakota. The reaction came while Cooper, 56, was speaking live to CNN’s senior national correspondent Kyung Lah … Read more
The greatest asset of the movie “One Life,” starring Anthony Hopkins, is the harrowing true story it’s based on. You might not immediately recognize the name Sir Nicholas Winton, but you have probably seen the viral YouTube video of an old man learning on live TV that the studio audience around him is made up … Read more
Many artists on tour have been putting up with poor concert etiquette from fans, being accosted by cell phones, raunchy sex toys, a massive cheese wheel and even the ashes of a fan’s mother during live performances. But one band decided to take matters into their own hands and start their show with a public service announcement — telling their fans … Read more
School has changed a lot since the old days, thankfully. For one thing, kids are encouraged to move as much as possible – especially to give them all a well-earned break during lessons. Schools now have programs like “crunch and sip” and “brain break” to let primary school students get up, “shake it off” and refuel with a … Read more
The poster of the new play “The Cottage,” which opened Monday night on Broadway, instantly suggests a severe identity crisis. With exaggerated, colorful cartoons of its starry cast popping out of windows, the art of playwright Sandy Rustin’s comedy looks like that of the indie movie “Wet Hot American Summer.” The synopsis, meanwhile, reads as … Read more
Theatre-goers were scandalized after a man clad in head-to-toe latex was allowed to watch a production at Shakespeare’s Globe in London surrounded by children in May. But the backlash has been much ado about nothing, the theatre might say. According to the Globe’s recount, the incident took place during a matinee showing of the bard’s … Read more
The long strange trip makes its final stop. Deadheads from all corners of the world flocked to San Francisco’s Oracle Park Sunday night to see iconic jam band the Grateful Dead’s successor, Dead & Company, play the last show of their ‘Final Tour.’ Two of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart … Read more
Will the real Barbara Millicent Roberts – aka Barbie – please stand up. She’s definitely not the blonde, tall, and very leggy Margot Robbie, 35, who plays the real-life Barbie in the $100 million live-action “Barbie” movie coming to theaters on July 21. Depending on who a Barbie fan believes, however, the genuine, in-the-flesh Barbie … Read more
“The Lehman Trilogy” plans to return to Broadway this fall, a source told The Post. Playwright Stefano Massini’s drama (adapted by Ben Power), which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2022, would begin performances at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in September. The three-hander — a sprawling history of Lehman Brothers leading up … Read more
In “North Bay Road,” a new novel by Richard Kirshenbaum, an NYC stylist named Liz is stunned when she receives a strange letter from a Miami lawyer. The letter informs her that she’s just inherited an estate in Miami, left to her by Elsa Sloan Barrett, a woman she’s never met. The catch? She has … Read more
Playing video games is a regular part of the lives of millions of teenagers. Whether they play with friends or alone, they can often spend hours in front of a screen. This can be a concern for many parents, but for mom-of-two Clare, she couldn’t be happier. “I don’t mind my son gaming 50 hours a week” The British mom … Read more
That Sean Hayes transforms in the new play “Good Night, Oscar,” there is no doubt. Whether the end result is a human being or a bag of tricks depends on your taste for ham. Theater review One hour and 40 minutes with no intermission. At the Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th St. In Doug Wright’s … Read more
At the play “Prima Facie,” which opened Sunday night on Broadway, the audience is hit by two wildly different sensations. First, as we become fully absorbed by the harrowing story of Tessa, a brilliant young barrister whose life is horribly upended, there is great pain and sadness in watching her go through a trauma nobody … 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
A pair of extraordinary elements make the new spectacle show “Life of Pi” seaworthy: stunning projections, and a better-than-necessary lead performance from the sensational Hiran Abeysekera. Theater review 2 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission. At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W 45th Street. Working in tandem during the second act, when teenage Pi … Read more