I have been a fan of this play ever since I saw the wonderful 1941 film directed by Gabriel Pascal and David Lean and starring Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller, Robert Morley, Robert Newton and a ton of other great British actors. You couldn’t not like it as the brilliantly satirical lines roared past you combined…
I had enjoyed Maison Kayser’s East Side location and was delighted when I learned they had added a store on Broadway at 76th. Just recently, Millefeuille had opened on the same block bringing joy and buttery pastries to our shores. Could the UWS sustain two French bakeries? Only our taste test could determine the answer…
I don’t know anyone who isn’t crazy about the 1953 MGM movie, The Band Wagon, (broadwayworld.com) and most of us loved the idea of seeing it transformed to the New York stage. The City Center, renowned for bringing our favorite musicals back through the Encores series, has, in a sense, brought this one forward. The…
Here’s a question that puzzled us. If we go to a movie that starts at 1 pm, where and when do we eat? We could go to brunch, but then what happens to breakfast? We could go a late lunch, but I need my meals right on time or I become very grumpy.The solution was…
Everyone knows Resnais’ famous early films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, (theguardian.com), but might have missed La Guerre est Finie and Stavisky and a whole slew of others during his six-decade-long career, films that could have been classed with the French New Wave had he not protested. Passionately political, he…
It’s always a thrill to arrive at the Met and I never tire of it, especially when we’re there to hear a masterpiece and as it had been 10 years since we had last seen The Magic Flute, I was constantly reminded how much of a masterpiece it is. We had resolutely declined to see…
