"A lot of people who know me, or think they know me, and have seen me play these big hero macho roles-gun toting, tank driving, dragon killing characters-are now going to see me in a very, very different role that no one will expect."
The 2019 production of Beetlejuice garnered eight Tony nominations and follows the familiar story of a deceased couple whose ghosts haunt the Deetz family.
Manic Street Creature is gig theatre in its purest form. Kirsty Patrick Ward (The Rat Trap) directs a story about a musician breaking onto the London scene, told as a musical set. Olivier Award-winner Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky's Edge) leads a tour-de-force about young love, creative ambition and mental health.
The upcoming Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show revealed its full cast today, and it is a who's who of who wants to crossdress. Along with the previously announced Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will return to Broadway for the first time since starring in 2016's SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical to play Janet. Her bland husband, Brad, will be played by Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw).
Upon going solo after White Zombie's breakup in the late '90s, the one-time noise-rock underdog became metal's demonoid phenom with 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe, a monster mosh of horror-themed industrial-metal that spawned the generational vampiric speedway anthem, "Dragula," along with several other Halloween playlist essentials.
Another Sundance Film Festival has come & gone, but this time, as the red carpets get rolled up and we put our snow boots back in storage, we're also saying goodbye to Park City, Utah, the fest's historic home since it was founded over 40 years ago by the late Robert Redford. And though its new location in Boulder, Colorado promises to take the annual celebration of independent cinema to a state decidedly
It's so pure. People talk a lot about the cinematic experience, going into a big theater and sharing it with a lot of people. That's important. But when you distill that into its tiniest form, when you make the screen as small as it can be and fit as many seats as possible, it still works. At least for Davey. That feeling doesn't go away.
Cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond is this year's Joe's Pub Vanguard artist, and as part of their curated residency, "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE played four sold out shows at the venue. Tuesday (1/27) was the final night, and CHRISTEENE covered songs by Lana Del Rey, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Tina Turner, and more in addition to playing originals, backed by a band that included Mary Feaster on bass, Lyla Vander on drums, Cole Stone Frisina on sax, Joanie Drago on guitar, James Jackson on guitar and banjo, Cornelius Loy on theremin, and Adam Rineer on piano.
Who needs all those notes? I got tired of that. Really, really tired of that. And I'm like, man, if you're in the arts, you should do everything you can to protect your art. So Campbell knew he wanted to make a movie, and he knew he didn't want to go through the big Hollywood machine.
In a full house at the 1,025-seat Toni Rembe Theater, there was an eruption of gasps and shrieks. The grown man to my right reflexively gripped the arm of my seat, sheepishly muttering an apology. In a distant aisle, I spotted one person get up and run out of the theater, their friend trailing closely behind.
Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative.