Here are some things that do not happen in Annie Baker’s new play The Flick. A confessed love is not reciprocated. An unconfessed love is not reciprocated. (I think; much is mysterious.) A friend does not, in a pinch, help a friend. A sad person does not learn a happy lesson. The audience does not get a moral, or even a subject. Also missing in action: action. No one does anything generally regarded as theatrical. … [Read more...] about Theater Review: The Return of Annie Baker’s
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Theater Review: At Encores!, a Brief Return to
It would be hard to imagine a production, let alone one rehearsed and put together in only ten days, that made a better case for the material. This is not a thrown-together staging on a cheap, borrowed set; it is, somehow, a physically beautiful, thoroughly realized (by director Leigh Silverman), and fully choreographed (by Sonya Tayeh) account of a complicated story. (The lighting, by Mark Barton, is about the best I’ve ever experienced at Encores!, and so is the sound, by Leon Rothenberg.) It’s Broadway-ready; indeed, if extra money has been provided to achieve this level of polish, no doubt it’s in part because the casting suggests a potential transfer. Queenie is played as a kewpie-lipped Jean Harlow vamp by Sutton Foster, who brought the “Encores! Off-Center” Violet to Broadway last year, and Burrs by Steven Pasquale, now a TV star but one of the most thrilling bari-hunks in the business. The lesser known but just as fine Brandon Victor Dixon (Motown … [Read more...] about Theater Review: At Encores!, a Brief Return to
Autumn doorscapes are the homeware craze you need to know for 2020 – just ask Stacey Solomon & Laura Whitmore
While Zoe's huge wreath, which is decorated with leaves, pine cones and mini pumpkins, is a few years old from Homesense, shoppers may be able to find something similar in the high street store or its sister shop, TK Maxx. Zoe also decorated her doorway with plenty of pumpkins in various colours and scattered loose autumnal leaves on the floor. … [Read more...] about Autumn doorscapes are the homeware craze you need to know for 2020 – just ask Stacey Solomon & Laura Whitmore
14 cheap supermarket Valentine’s gifts: From M&S to Aldi, Sainsbury’s & MORE
SHOP NOW If you can't remember their favourite chocolate flavour or know they love a taste of everything, you can't go wrong with this assorted Lindt truffles box. … [Read more...] about 14 cheap supermarket Valentine’s gifts: From M&S to Aldi, Sainsbury’s & MORE
Lisa Kudrow’s home is full of Friends references – see inside
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, the actress revealed that she and Julian were separated from Michael for some time during lockdown. "We were all together in the desert because we have a house there," she explained. "And then there was a lockdown so we just stayed put. But that house needed work. And then what happened was, it got to be hotter, as it does in the Palm Springs area, so it was too hot for me." She has since returned to her property in Beverly Hills, which seems to hold several reminders of her time on Friends… … [Read more...] about Lisa Kudrow’s home is full of Friends references – see inside