Hollywood Movie to Broadway Musical: Past, Present and Future

How different can two ballet companies be? Well, very. New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, currently ensconced just a few paces from each other across the plaza at Lincoln Center, are a perfect example of this glaring reality. Their dueling galas, held four days apart, are a neat…

Amish: Out of Order has become a hit show. Over the past month, millions of people have watched and learned about those who grew up Amish and found out more and more about this unique and interesting culture.

I think some people are surprised at the show’s success. It’s not exactly the…

Do you know the fable of the blue-collar comedian who played the “Police Academy” weirdo and then became an unhinged and prolific auteur? Do you want to?

Once, there were two TV critics who watched New Girl. They laughed and they cried, they loved and they hated (one of them did a lot bouncing between loving and hating). And now, after the conclusion of the first season, they weigh in New Girl’s first season and the future of the show.

Where…

Or How and Why an Upper East Side New Yorker Spent the Last 15 Years Making Documentaries and TV Shows About the Amish

I am always ready for the third question … I’ve just answered their first two questions, and I know what comes next. Question 1: “What do you do?” My answer: “I own…

I hated the Girls pilot, and here’s why

Girls premiered tonight. I am theoretically the demographic the show is about. I didn’t like it. It managed to get a few things right about my existence — the apartments looked about right, as did the clothes, and the financial concerns rang true,…

The story of “Peter and the Starcatcher” is improbable enough – a sprawling adventure involving orphans and pirates, mermaids and deadly mollusks that has landed on Broadway with inventive use of ropes and ladders instead of video projections or hydraulic lifts. But the transfer of…