Arts and Entertainment

Tap Roots Tap Roots

It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty

The ‘Public Interest’ The ‘Public Interest’

For years Pittsburghers have witnessed the low regard in which public television station WQED holds its second channel, WQEX.

Dec 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Bill O’Driscoll

Polanski’s Holocaust Polanski’s Holocaust

I can think of no picture of recent years, other than Roman Polanski's The Pianist, that has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and yet stirred neither controversy nor excitement.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Mamet Goes Wildeing Mamet Goes Wildeing

The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor wrong, but...

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman

Adeptations Adeptations

Even without the aid of Smell-o-Vision, Charlie Kaufman's bedroom comes across as dank.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Is It Still Rock & Roll to You? Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?

A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty

Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Blowin’ in a New Wind Blowin’ in a New Wind

Ani DiFranco

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Almodóvar’s World Almodóvar’s World

November has been melodrama month at the movies. First Todd Haynes brought us Far From Heaven, which he ought to have called Imitation of Imitation.

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play

Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora

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