by Jordan R. Young | Dec 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Warren Oates and Corey Allen in “Private Property” (1960) It’s easy to see how a film like “Private Property” (1960) fell through the cracks, going almost unnoticed on its original release and promptly disappearing. After all, few people had heard of writer-director...
by Jordan R. Young | Nov 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mikhailovsky Ballet in “Le Corsaire” “Le Corsaire,” a tale of romance between a pirate and a slave girl, is an age-old staple of the ballet repertoire. It was inspired not by the Verdi opera of the same name but a poem written by Lord Byron in 1814. The Mikhailovsky...
by Jordan R. Young | Nov 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mabel Normand & Mack Sennett, with Edgar Kennedy (3rd row left), in a 1913 film. “The most important thing in my life was a girl,” film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett truthfully observed in his myth-filled autobiography. Sadly, the girl’s own legacy has been largely...
by Jordan R. Young | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Annika Marks and Giovanni Adams in “The Model Apartment.” Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography. Donald Margulies may be one of our best contemporary playwrights, but he had to start somewhere. Among his earliest efforts is “The Model Apartment,” now playing in a revival at...
by Jordan R. Young | Oct 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Montae Russell and Matthew Boston in SCR’s District Merchants by Aaron Posner. Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. Don’t know much about Shakespeare? Steer away from productions and adaptations of his plays for fear you won’t understand them? Aaron Posner’s “District...
by Jordan R. Young | Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Blake Ellis & Nick Searcy in “Billy & Ray.” Photo by Ed Krieger. What would it be like if you could go back in time and watch Billy Wilder’s classic seriocomic film noir, “Double Indemnity,” in the making? Not on the set, mind you, but in the director’s...
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