Culture

August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ set in Pittsburgh’s ‘urban removal’ era

December 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Ruben Santiago-Hudson and his entire cast merit a well-deserved Bravo for a joyous and revelatory couple of hours of fine-tuned stage work. A more authentic production cannot be imagined.

‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’: Oh! Kolkata, yogi bare and boo-boos

December 3, 2019 By Ed Rampell

As Eva Orner’s chilling Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator contends, Bikram Choudhury—who is now a fugitive from the U.S. but still teaching and cashing in elsewhere—is one of the latest in a long line of figures from...

Borderline ‘Ivana the Terrible’: A chip off of Dusan Makavejev’s cinematic block

December 2, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Shot tongue in cheek, Terrible is 89 minutes of mostly good fun.

‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment

November 27, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.

‘The Third Wife’ recounts a woman’s life in rural 19th-century Vietnam

November 26, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film is the Vietnamese submission for the 77th Golden Globe Awards. It has already won various film festival awards at other cities.