Paul Matthews, the character played by Nicolas Cage in the new satire Dream Scenario, is many things: a husband, a father, a tenured professor of evolutionary biology, a font of insecurities and jealousies and resentments. But more than anything, in this strange, heady and ever-shifting polemic, he is a human meme. Paul tends to satisfy both the original scientific … [Read more...]
McTeer does remarkable star turn in ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’
It is a given of Theresa Rebeck’s new, thought-provoking, though overstuffed new play, Bernhardt/Hamlet, that 19th-century stage diva Sarah Bernhardt was one of the greatest actresses who ever lived. To cement that point, she is played in the Roundabout Theatre’s premiere production by the stunning Janet McTeer (A Doll’s House on Broadway, Tumbleweeds on the silver screen), … [Read more...]