by Dan Metz | Aug 16, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Neil gets Jo to pose for her instagram in Birds Without Feathers. Cinema reflects an idealized world. Films tend to project an ease of existence that ignores the awkward parts of life: the pauses, the tangents, the missed cues and forced repetitions. Cool characters...
by Dan Metz | Aug 9, 2019 | Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Theater
Photo credit Jamie Brewer It’s Thursday night. You and your friends don’t know what to do. It’s New York City, so you want to see something live. But what? Everyone has an opinion. Do you go see a comedy? A drama? A musical? Grab drinks? Maybe just...
by Dan Metz | Jul 22, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Uncategorized
General Magic perfectly captures the childlike excitement of the most ambitious project of a generation. Some stories are ahead of their time. Early Indian scholars and mystics may have invented string theory thousands of years before the invention of modern...
by Dan Metz | Jul 18, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
A modern retelling of Euripides’ Medea brings life as an undocumented American to the stage with honesty, fire, and heartbreak Nobody expects a rendition of Euripides’ Medea to be heartwarming, but the ancient Greek setting of the original does allow for...
by Mike Hammer | Jul 23, 2014 | Culture, Entertainment
Masked audience members look on at the surreal events of Sleep No More. The term sensory experience is thrown around a lot in the theatre world, and understandably so. Broadway and Off-Broadway shows can be deeply perceptive with their stage productions, and they can...