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(04/27/06 4:00am)
The plot of Our Lady of 121st Street revolves around a mystery -- specifically, the missing cadaver of Sister Rose. The real mystery of Live Arts' production, however, is why a play with such a promising premise manages to fall flat on its face.
(04/06/06 4:00am)
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) has been having nightmares -- rancid dreams of blood, a sickly boy and roosters from his childhood in 1950s France. The visions have been haunting him since he and his wife (Juliette Binoche) started receiving anonymous videotapes of themselves coming and going from their apartment on their doorstep. The childlike drawings accompanying these tapes, elementary stick figures of bloodied throats and slaughtered birds, begin to infiltrate his conscience.
(03/30/06 5:00am)
In the second act of The World's Wife, Eurydice, Orpheus' wife, issues an imperative to the audience.
(03/23/06 5:00am)
From March 22-26, Charlottesville, Va. will become every bibliophile's dream.
(03/16/06 5:00am)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, does not want you to like him -- or so he says in the opening lines of The Libertine. He's right. You won't.
(02/23/06 5:00am)
Ping Chong's Truth and Beauty claims to hold a mirror to American society. Its reflection shows a disfigured culture weaned on violence and raised by sex with a daily dose of consumerism. The University Drama Department holds Chong's theatrical looking glass with a fairly steady hand that occasionally falters under the weight of its own message.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
Those who are un-hip to the ways of Hedwig Robinson often wonder what that "inch" is and why it is so "angry." Live Arts' twist on the zany tale of the East German transsexual not only answers these questions but does justice to John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's cult film sensation.
(02/09/06 5:00am)
Despite landmark films such as Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Jungle Fever, memorable cinematic interracial romances have been too few and far between. While it may not go down in film history, Something New, a hybrid of romance, comedy and social commentary, bravely interrogates the unspoken taboos of black and white dating. Its opinion is no gray matter -- the film ultimately advocates interracial relationships wholeheartedly.
(01/26/06 5:00am)
In a Venetian convent, an Inquisition officer condemns a depraved nun to eternal damnation for one night with Casanova, the city's promiscuous paramour in residence.
(12/01/05 5:00am)
In 1955, Memphis Sun Studio Recording producer Sam Phillips gave an earnest, young musician a piece of advice.
(11/17/05 5:00am)
At a roadside diner, Truman Capote thinks out loud. "In Cold Blood," he says, testing the title of his book-to-be. "Isn't it good?"
(11/03/05 5:00am)
When Josie Aimes approaches a lawyer to press charges of sexual harassment against the town mine, he reduces her crisis to a legal stereotype: "It's the nuts or sluts defense -- you're either crazy, or you deserved it."
(10/27/05 4:00am)
Imagine interviewing other Americans who share your own name. Imagine that over half of them are victims of rape, domestic violence or child molestation.
(10/27/05 4:00am)
In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley sent her 14-year-old son, Emmett, from Chicago down to Money, Mississippi to visit relatives. Although she knew that her son was traveling deep into Jim Crow country, she didn't realize she would never see him again.
(10/20/05 4:00am)
Jonathon is a collector. Peering at the world through thick glasses, he ziplocs scraps of memory, accumulating a wall of labeled, dated paraphernalia from his family's life. In his austere black suit and tie, Jonathan (Elijah Wood) surveys his anthology of dust, dentures, postcards and photographs.
(10/13/05 4:00am)
Rose adores shoes. While food makes her "fatter" and clothes "don't look good," shoes always fit. As a single lawyer who plans trips she never takes and finds love in romance novels, she's elated when her boss, Jim, is sleeping beside her --- so much that she takes a photo for proof.
(10/06/05 4:00am)
Madeleine, like many Northerners, sees the South as a peculiar yet amusing culture that merits wonder. In rural North Carolina, she courts favor with a self-taught artist who paints grotesque glories of Confederate angels and preaches bellicose reveries about Jesus Christ. She sips her cherry cola, eager to box up his visions of Antietams, Shermans and scrotums to showcase in her Chicago art gallery.
(09/29/05 4:00am)
Although she conceals it with makeup, Jean's cheek, stained with a violet bruise, is as battered as her heart. Although ointment numbs his crude wounds from a bear attack, no dose of morphine can lift Mitch's melancholy. Although his son has been dead for 11 years, the aftertaste of mourning still lingers, flavoring Einar's harsh words.
(09/22/05 4:00am)
Imagine combining the supernatural aura of Ghost with the masked desire of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Now subtract quality, ingenuity and candor. The romantic comedy Just Like Heaven, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, is the result.
(03/23/05 5:00am)
The U.Va. Collegiate Mock Trial A-Team placed second in its division at the Stetson National Tournament held in St. Petersburg, Fla. over Spring Break, according to Benjamin Sachs, a team member.