&quot;Hamlet&quot; opts for outrageous effects over depth
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Experienced director  Daniel Sullivan surrounds his outrageous young Hamlet, played  by Hamish Linklater, with a bland if steady supporting cast and  a safe, conventional setting. The resulting production scurries  along with such unreflecting alacrity, and corresponding lack  of emotional complexity, that it only begins to suggest why  there&#39;s such a fuss about &quot;Hamlet.&quot;
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When the harrowing play Frozen opened on Broadway this summer, audiences were shaken by the authenticity of Yorkshire playwright Bryony Lavery&#39;s portrayal of the mind of a serial killer.
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Julius Peppers has grown used to people expecting more from him than he normally gives. That&#39;s the consequence of being a 6-foot-6, 283-pound man with massive hands, insane speed and a devastating combination of strength and quickness.
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Kenneth Branagh&#39;s new  version of Anthony Shaffer&#39;s crime caper &quot;Sleuth&quot; looks  smashing, and it features several great new lines by  screenwriter Harold Pinter. But despite top-flight acting from  Michael Caine and Jude Law, it loses its grip in the third act  and lets the air out of what might have been a memorable film.
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Arts & entertainment: Theatre: Transcendent puppeteering turns Michael Morpurgo's war novel into the ultimate horse play.
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Black and white actors swap roles in Shakespeare & Company performances to challenge race perceptions.
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This assured tragicomedy runs almost three hours but feels longer, which, believe it or not, is intended as praise.
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Oh, how I wish this column was capable of special effects. If it was, the newspaper or computer screen you&#39;re reading this on would suddenly morph into a Howler, one of those bright red envelopes in the Harry
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This new stage adaptation of the Wim Wenders movie, in a production at the American Repertory Theater in Boston, is alternately stimulating and unsatisfying.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Last week in Fargo, N.D., moviegoers had a choice among "Aliens vs. Predator," "The Great Debaters" Â and "Macbeth," live from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
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Tom Stoppardâs brilliance, while on obvious display in âThe Coast of Utopia,â is not serving the playwrightâs ostensible goal of creating a satisfactory work of dramatic art.
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Horton Footeâs âDividing the Estateâ is among the most acute analyses of flaws in the American psyche in the 21st century that the theater has come up with to date.
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&quot;Closer&quot; must be an ironic title, since its vibes are consistently and often smugly alienating. Nevertheless, Patrick Marber&#39;s play, now adapted by the author for director Mike Nichols, has
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Playbill - Openings were very thick on the ground this week, as the expression goes.
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When you&#39;re making an R-rated puppet movie with controversial marionette-on-marionette sex scenes, you&#39;d think you&#39;d have all the controversy they can stomach.
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Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like âCashback.â