by Cynthia Citron
If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary! And be afraid. Be very afraid. Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,
by Cynthia Citron
I’ve always enjoyed the plays of Donald Margulies. They usually are variations on a few definitive themes: family dynamics (predominantly Jewish families), the Holocaust, reunions, and
A musical based on the murder trial of Lizzie Borden in the last years of the 19th century would seem to be an intriguing idea. After all, everyone is familiar
The film is called “Is That You?” and the answer is “It most certainly is!”
Winner of a well-deserved Israeli Academy Award last year for Best Independent Film, this delicious
At least it’s not about a dysfunctional family. This time it’s a group of dysfunctional writers who are blocked, burnt out, and distracted.
The play is “The Portman
On the night that playwright Edward Albee died, September 16, 2016, I attended the opening of one of his rarely performed plays, “The Play About the Baby,” at The Road
It is usually difficult for a one-woman show to keep an audience riveted through the entire performance. But it’s a piece of cake for Leslie Caveny, who wrote and
If you read the book you might find the film a great disappointment.
The film, “The Light Between Oceans”, is a maudlin, self-consciously manipulative tear-jerker. But the book, beautifully written
Wendy Graf usually writes well-crafted plays. Unfortunately, “Please Don’t Ask About Becket” isn’t one of them.
The play, now having its world premiere in Los Angeles, is about
Do you remember the gorgeous 1966 French film, “A Man and a Woman,” written and directed by Claude Lelouch? When I saw it I thought it was the most beautiful
It's absolutely uncanny how Canadian pianist, actor, playwright, composer, producer, and director Hershey Felder can take on not only the persona of some of the world's
A new play, “Blueprint for Paradise,” currently having its world premiere in Los Angeles, is based on a true story ... maybe. Or on fragmented evidence, rumors, and bits and pieces
