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Skip to main content Curtain Call: Dr. Ruth is much more than a sex therapist in MTC production Becoming Dr. Ruth Joanne Greco Rochman FacebookTwitterEmail Amy Griffin will play Dr. Ruth in Music Theatre of Connecticuts production of "Becoming Dr. Ruth."Contributed photo At 10 years old, the woman we have come to know as sex therapist and television star Dr. Ruth was sent away to Switzerland through kindertransport. Because of this she not only was able to escape the Nazis, but she never saw he...

New to Stream: OVID’s February 2021 Movie Lineup New to Stream: OVID’s February 2021 Movie Lineup OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films, has announced its February streaming lineup! OVID exclusives next month include Rogier Kappers’ Emmy nominated documentary Lomax the Songhunter, two films by Romanian director Radu Jude titled I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians and Aferim!, as well as Tsai Ming-liang’s Rebels of the Neon ...

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ONLINE: The Niceties courtesy Forward Theater Samantha Newcomb joined the American Players Theatre apprentice company in 2019; she is a cast member of the Forward Theater production of "The Niceties" in 2021. Its the final weekend to stream Forward Theater Companys production of the Eleanor Burgess play The Niceties, in which a Black college student (played by Samantha Newcomb) and a white professor (Sarah Day) disagree about the students thesis on the roots of the American Revolution. The dis...

amBroadway: Emma Thompson joins ‘Matilda’ film cast, St. Luke’s Theatre dismantled and more AMNY 1/20/2021 Matt Windman © Provided by AMNY Off-Broadway’s St. Luke’s Theatre is dismantled  Producer Edmund Gaynes, who operated St. Luke’s Theatre for 15 years, announced last week that the Midtown Off-Broadway venue (located under St. Luke’s Lutheran Church) had permanently closed and had even been physically dismantled. In response, the Rev. Dr. Arden C. Strasser...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Watch Tom Hanks News of the World Texas-set Western at home now on streaming services and cable on demand FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel star in “News of the World.”Universal PicturesShow MoreShow Less 2of5 The poster for the Hulu movie “In & of Itself,” starring Derek DelGaudio and directed by Frank Oz.HuluShow MoreShow Less 3of5 5of5 Here’s a look at what’s new or notable in home video. Movies and TV series are availabl...

Theater to Stream: Jerry Herman’s Tunes; Marisa Tomei, Twice The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” Nicholas Christopher, left, and Ashley Blanchet in “You I Like: A Celebration of Jerry Herman.”Credit...Jeff Lorch Jan. 20, 2021 One of the benefits of streaming theater — come on, we must think of that glass as half-full — is that we can now mix and ma...

How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era As artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades. Gregg Henry as the Trump-styled title character in the Public Theater’s 2017 “Julius Caesar.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Published Jan. 18, 2021Updated Jan. 20, 2021 On the Tuesday morning in June 2015 when Donald J. Trump waved his way down, down, down a golden-edged escalator in Trump Tower to ann...

P.I.P.E. Dreams: Principles To Live What You Love! From Broadway to Boardwalk, Olatokun has landed significant roles Off Broadway, and at the San Diego Repertory Theater, to leading roles on primetime TV. He has appeared in the hit HBO drama series, "Boardwalk Empire" (2010), in OWN Networks series "Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal" (2011), as Mike Hunt, and as well acting alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. in the movie "Freedom" (2015). Olatokun lives what he teaches and means it when he writes: "The ...

In & Of Itself Movie Review By Director: Frank Oz Opens: January 22, 2021 There are two kinds of audiences for live shows in New York. One is represented by the tourist, perhaps not fluent in English, who would go to a Broadway musical: “Chicago,” “South Pacific,” “Guys and Dolls,” presentations that are a lot of fun. Others are a more intellectual set that would patronize off-Broadway, even off-Broadway; likely to be in a serious vein, knowledge of English indispensable. There is t...