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Theater Review | 'Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears': Extending the Reach of a Great Yiddish Writer, Unto the Next Generation

The most moving part of “Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears,” Theodore Bikel’s one-man play with songs at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, comes near the beginning. “Ver bet blaybn, vos vet blaybn?” Mr. Bikel sings, and then translates: “Who ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

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Theater Review | 'Balaton': Family Drama in Hungary and the Afterlife

A fairly standard family drama lies at the heart of Ashlin Halfnight’s frustrating new play, “Balaton,” at the Theater at 30th Street. A student, Daniel, is torn between his overbearing mother and the woman he loves. Around that story, Mr. Halfnight ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

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Movie Review | 'All the Best': Where Comedy and Complexity Meet

Where has all the drama gone? Hindi cinema has a serious case of the giggles these days. So perhaps it’s not surprising that an actor like Ajay Devgn, who played a powerful, brooding Othello in “Omkara” (2006), should want in on the comedy fun. Mr. ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ajay Devgn,  Bollywood,  Bipasha Basu,  Sanjay Dutt

Theater Review | 'My Life in a Nutshell': Tales of Death in Suspended Animation

Hanne Tierney’s evocative puppet play “My Life in a Nutshell,” at Here Arts Center, is at once death-obsessed and jaunty, abstract and full of geometric precision. The life-size puppets, made of burlap, dangle from strings suspended from the ceiling. ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gertrude Stein

Theater Review | 'A Disaster Begins': Seeking Order in a Life, a War and a Deluge

“Where does a disaster begin?” Muriel Halstead asks, before stopping, crumpling her shoulders and dropping her head onto a lectern. No, she decides. She cannot give the lecture she has come to give. Her subject the 1900 flood in Galveston, Tex. cannot ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Veanne Cox,  Ain Gordon

Movie Review | 'The Heretics': Art in an Era of Consciousness Raising

It wasn’t once upon a time, but just a few decades ago, Joan Braderman’s exuberant documentary reminds us, that a woman could be told, “You paint just like a man” (a compliment) or you’re “too cute to be an art critic.” Joan Braderman, the writer and ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Film: Recalling Indian Cinema’s Orson Welles

Guru Dutt, the great poet of Hindi cinema, was also in his heyday the 1950s and early ’60s something of a matinee idol. No wonder: with his soulful eyes, sensuous mouth and flyaway locks of wavy hair, he looked like the brooding artist he so often ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Guru Dutt,  Orson Welles,  Raj Kapoor,  Waheeda Rehman

Movie Review | 'Wake Up Sid': Career Woman Helps a Man-Child Grow Up

Sidharth Mehra sleeps on SpongeBob SquarePants sheets and wears Scooby-Doo and “Star Trek” T-shirts. He’s not 8, but a young man just out of college in Mumbai. That is, he would be if he hadn’t failed his exams. “Who cares about tomorrow?” he asks. ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood

Movie Review | 'Do Knot Disturb': Bollywood Laughs

Vulgar, noisy and excessive, “Do Knot Disturb” is a Bollywood sex farce with almost no sex, and comedy pitched so low you’re more likely to groan than giggle. Don’t say the movie doesn’t warn you: within the first few minutes, you’re treated to a man ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood,  Lara Dutta,  Sushmita Sen,  Govinda,  Vijay Arora

Movie Review | 'What’s Your Raashee?': A Woman for Every Zodiac Sign

Harman Baweja, left, and Priyanka Chopra in the comedy “What’s Your Raashee?” Ashutosh Gowariker’s epics “Lagaan” (2001) and “Jodhaa Akbar” (2008) take their time — 224 and 213 minutes — to tell rousing tales of Indian heroics. His new movie, “What’s ...

From RACHEL SALTZ, The New York Times,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Priyanka Chopra,  University of Chicago,  Javed Akhtar

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