"High Fidelity" musical fails to match book, movie
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Nick Hornby's best-selling novel "High Fidelity," whose characters concocted endless quirky top-five lists, has been made into a Broadway musical that critics rate among the top five that should never have been made.
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Theater buffs have been worried sick about what would happen to âSweeney Toddâ when it was remade as a film. Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the score, eagerly wielded the razor.
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A musical of The Ten Commandments cancels three performances per week after bad reviews. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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'The Wedding Date' suffers from a lack of chemistry.
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Its newest Broadway show gets the usual kiss-off from the critics. What's their problem?
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Russell Banksâs new novel bears less resemblance to any of his gritty, visionary epics than it does to a melodramatic B movie from the 1940s.
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Little about the television series "Friday Night Lights" closely follows the book or the 2004 film based on it.
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"Love and Other Disasters"  is no "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and Brittany Murphy -- hard to  imagine that this needs to be said -- is no Audrey Hepburn. The  romantic comedy is piled high with irritants and  superficialities, and finds too many occasions to let you know  how clever it thinks it is.
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The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
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The movie is too sanitized and not on par with the book. It ignores much for the sake of a PG-13 rating. The book &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; still stirs up anger in Odessa, Texas, for tackling the themes of racism and winning-is-everything.
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A revisionist miniseries tells the other side of Star Trek stories. In Table of Malcontents.
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&quot;Shrek&quot;, the CGI animated feature film that broke box office records worldwide and spawned an even more successful sequel, is coming to Broadway as a stage musical.
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Make no mistake: Kenneth Branagh's "Sleuth" is not a remake of the 1972 film.
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While the notoriously misguided film, âXanadu,â might seem a peculiar choice for resurrection, there is something almost as unusual about those behind it: all six of the musicalâs above-the-title producers are Broadway neophytes.
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Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.
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Movie musicals haven't caught on with mass audiences since Grease. But a crop of new releases like Hairspray and Once hope to hit the right notes
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An article last week about inexpensive dresses misstated the name of a clothing store on Broadway. It is Yellow Rat Bastard, not Dirty Yellow Bastard.