Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway.Forget East Egg and West Egg.
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Naveen Kumar Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination. S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Outsiders,” about a cadre of down-and-out boys, has been read by millions of restless adolescents since it was published in 1967, when the author herself was a teenager.
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film, stacked with before-they-were-A-list hunks including Rob Lowe and Matt Dillon, ushered in the Brat Pack era of moviemaking that paid serious attention to young people and their discontents. A new musical version of “The Outsiders,” now playing at the Jacobs Theater on Broadway, leverages the appeal of these previous iterations: the insatiable longing of youth, the triumph of integrity over adversity and, yes, a cast that smolders in vintage muscle tees (costumes courtesy of Sarafina Bush). But the production only intermittently rises to the challenge of transforming such familiar material into theater that feels both original and necessary.
It packs plenty of heart and soul, but lacks a strong pulse. “The Outsiders” isn’t short on plot, but much of it has been seen elsewhere, particularly onstage: rival gangs of haves and have-nots, a romance that crosses enemy lines, and a second-act rumble to settle the score. (It’s probable that Hinton, like so many high school students, also read “Romeo & Juliet.”) “The Outsiders,” which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse last spring, could aptly be described as “Grease” without the fizzy pizazz or “West Side Story” without the passion or the pathos.
Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway.Forget East Egg and West Egg.
Christian Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,”which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity,is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous film adaptations (in 1974 by Richard Clayton and in 2013 by Baz Lurhman). It’s most remembered for the titular character’s lavish parties, though as any good reader of the novel will tell you, the party’s are all razzle dazzle — what really matters is what’s underneath.
EXCLUSIVE: The ancient Scottish town of St Andrews was hit with a heavy bout of Spidey fever this past weekend as the third annual Sands International Film Festival opened, pulling in an eclectic set of films, filmmakers, and speakers alongside one popular guest of honor.
The Broadway musical Suffs just officially opened and a star-studded crowd stepped out to check out Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai‘s producing debut!
2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th Street.The suffragist characters of the musical “Suffs,” which opened Thursday night at the Music Box Theatre, rarely take a breath to celebrate their victories.
“The Outsiders” at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.Described as “breathtakingly visceral” by the New York Post’s critic Johnny Oleksinksi, other reviewers have singled the scene out as “one of the most impactful moments of this, or any, Broadway season” and (the Washington Post), “a spectacular ballet of violence” (New York Magazine).And if you want to see the stunning sequence in the buzzy new coming-of-age musical about rival gangs from different socioeconomic backgrounds in Tulsa — adapted from S.E.
Crazy Rich Asians has it’s eyes set on Broadway!
Wicked director Jon M. Chu will make his Broadway directorial debut with a new stage adaptation of his 2018 hit film Crazy Rich Asians, producers announced today.
Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Break out the dumpling wrappers and mahjong sets because “Crazy Rich Asians” is coming to Broadway. The beloved romantic comedy is being developed as a Broadway musical by director Jon M.
Swiss Films Previews, the only spread of national movies at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, the country’s leading doc festival. Presented via excerpts at a two-hour showcase on Wednesday, three further titles – “Kalari – the Martial Art of Female Power,” “The Boy from the River Drina” and “Spheres” – underscored the strength in depth of documentary filmmaking in Switzerland and at least in this year’s Previews, a leitmotif.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have added extra dates to their 2024 UK and European tour due to demand.Last month the band announced their ‘Wild God’ tour which is set to kick off in Germany this September, continuing through October before a UK leg in November.Now Cave and co. have announced additional dates in London (November 9), Dublin (November 13), Amsterdam (September 27), Berlin (September 30) and Copenhagen (October 6).Tickets for the new shows will go on sale Friday (April 19) at 10am local time from here (UK and Ireland) and here (Europe).Current mailing list subscribers will also be automatically included in the artist pre-sale for new shows – with links and passwords set to be emailed before the sale goes live – starting on Wednesday (April 17) at 10am local time.Due to demand, new dates have been added to THE WILD GOD TOUR in London, Dublin, Berlin and Copenhagen.
Even though the Grand National Festival will take place at Aintree Racecourse on Saturday, 13 April, it is not expected that King Charles will be in attendance as he continues to focus on his recovery following his cancer diagnosis. Many members of the Royal Family - including the King, Zara Tindall, Princess Anne and the late Queen Elizabeth II - have graced the racecourse in recent decades.
Eleanor Coppola, who won an Emmy for the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love Is Love and was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, diedFriday at her home in Rutherford, CA. She was 87.
J. Kim Murphy Eleanor Coppola, an American filmmaker who won an Emmy for chronicling her husband Francis Ford Coppola‘s taxing 238-day production of “Apocalypse Now” in her documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” died Friday at her home in Rutherford, Calif. She was 87.
Angelina Jolie celebrates the successful opening of her new Broadway play The Outsiders with her children Pax and Vivienne during a night out in New York City on Thursday (April 11).
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Joe Leydon Film Critic Winner of an audience award at the 2023 SXSW film fest, “The Long Game” is an utterly predictable yet thoroughly engaging period drama. Set in 1950s Texas, the film focuses on the true-life story of five Mexican-American youths who triumph against all odds while overcoming adversity, prejudice and periodic self-doubts in their pursuit of a Texas State High School Golf Championship trophy.
Taylor Swift has been on the road with her mega popular Eras Tour for well over a year now, playing to tens of thousands of fans each night across the continents in North and south America, Australia and Japan, so far. Luckily for British Swifities, the queen of pop will be making the UK and Ireland her home for the next leg of the Eras tour in a matter of weeks.
Immediately off the back of its inclusion in the Cannes competition line-up, Ali Abbasi‘s The Apprentice has dropped a first look of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
A couple has been left shaken after thugs attacked the man and stole his bank cards outside a Scots store.