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Frances wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. From Noah Baumbach’s monochrome melancholy comes a charming comedic tale of passion, pain, hope, and despair that can only happen in New York.
With Greenberg, film writer-director Noah Baumbach successfully adds another to his patented string of highly intellectual meanderings full of difficult characters expressing their personal pain by violently thrusting it upon others while feigning self-deprecation.
Jeff Daniels’ newest piece, a musical comedy western, is less about making people laugh and more about showcasing his tuneful songs. Julie Haverkate wonders how a play about a guitar-slinging cowboy could go so wrong.
A young royal must step up and run a kingdom, but he prefers to party with his buddies in this rare classic by Stephen Schwartz. Pippin plays at Winter Garden, Florida’s Garden Theatre through September 15, 2024.
Judy Craddock speaks with Jeffrey Foucault about his first album in six years, The Universal Fire, and connecting all kinds of dots in the wake of loss.
All In: Unreleased & Rarities — The New West Years (New West Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Bring your loupe and spend some time poring over the maps that open Navola with Ian Koss.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Lily and Generoso review director Gürcan Keltek’s mesmerizing supernatural drama, New Dawn Fades, winner of the Best Feature Boccalino D’Oro Award of the 24th Independent Film Critics Awards of the 2024 Locarno International Film Festival.
Channing Wilson opens for Steve Earle as Steve tours on his Alone Again Live album.
