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Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom is the perfect title to describe the current state of the franchise that started with Michel Crichton '...

On June 28, the Bavarian State Opera unveils their new production of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal . The production will be directed ...

I never get tired of watching Kenneth MacMillan 's brilliant choreography of Sergei Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet . The more I att...

Robert De Niro hurled the F-bomb last night at the Tony Awards towards Donald Trump .  CBS, which broadcasted the show live, scrambled to...

The Band's Visit is the musical on everybody's lips as the Tony Awards approaches. At the ceremony tonight, this little gem of a...

Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) He had a knack for entering the kitchens of far-away countries, and making us feel as if we knew that dist...

La Bayadère , with the glorious music of Ludwig Minkus and the choreography of Marius Petipa is perhaps the greatest exponent of pure Or...

Once upon a time, Marvel was a modest comic book company offering superhero entertainment to children of all ages.  The majority of us f...

It takes a ballsy opera singer to take on Giacomo Puccini' s great opera Tosca . Even more, it takes a truly fearless Prima-Donna to t...

It's great that A Quiet Place has become the latest horror film sensation. Directed and starring John Krasinski and his wife Emily B...

The film CASABLANCA will be shown on TCM tomorrow, Wednesday at 8:00pm EST. For more information about this classic movie go to my websi...

" Angels in America, a Gay Fantasia on National Themes ," Tony Kushner 's epic play about the politics of the AIDS crisis ...

Today, on the day that many Christians commemorate the death of Jesus Christ, many New York food lovers will witness the death of an insti...

Will this be the straw that finally breaks Peter Gelb 's back? James Levine is suing the Metropolitan Opera over the fact that he wa...

The Oscars are tonight, of course.  Here are some last minute predictions: Actor in a leading role: Gary Oldman Actor in a supportin...

Waco , a six part miniseries based on the 1993 siege of the Waco, Texas compound of the Branch Dividians, a millenarian cult led by David ...

 The premise of the comic book Black Panther , now a major motion picture from Marvel Studios , was to be an antidote to the racism found ...

François Girard 's Apocalyptic production of Parsifal is back at the MET this month, with a stellar cast, and under the direction of ...

Very few directors can build a sense of dread and maintain it through a three act structure like Paul Thomas Anderson . In his latest film...

The Post is Steven Spielberg 's film about the publishing by the Washington Post of the Pentagon Papers, classified information detai...