There are no matinees in New York on Fridays, but this Friday there was a public orchestra rehearsal with singers of that cult favorite Stephen Schwartz musical from 1972, Pippin, at the Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Featured were three A-listers from the recent revival — Terrence Mann, Charlotte d’Amboise and Andrea Martin. Only in New York, as they … [Read more...]
‘Diane’: Wise and lyrical, with a star turn from Place
Kent Jones is far from the first writer to make the transition from critic to filmmaker, from outsider to insider, from lobber of bromides to defender of craft. James Agee directed a short, and penned The African Queen and Night of the Hunter; Roger Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; the French New Wave was a cottage industry of trailblazing … [Read more...]