Marty Callner Might Be The Most Influential Comedy Director

Co-author Rob Tannenbaum said that in these early days of MTV, the aesthetics of the videos were up for grabs.I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution” and an occasional contributor to The Times. “Devo wanted them to be avant-garde films; Duran Duran wanted these to be Patrick Nagel-style dreams; Marty …

Susan Jaffe Will Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater

Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerinaWhen Kevin McKenzie steps down at the end of 2022 after a 30-year tenure, he will become the company’s artistic director, the company announced Monday. Jaffe, 59, has been artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since July 2020, and will become the seventh director to lead the …

Susan Jaffe Will Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater

Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerinaWhen Kevin McKenzie steps down at the end of 2022 after a 30-year tenure, he will become the company’s artistic director, the company announced Monday. Jaffe, 59, has been artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since July 2020, and will become the seventh director to lead the …

Playwright Aleshea Harris and Director Whitney White Bond

Whitney White: I first met Aleshea through her work; I’d read your script for “.is god” (2018) and I have never seen anything so stunning, breathtaking, brutal and extremely feminine. Someone from Harlem’s Movement Theater Company called me and said, “We’re playing your next play,” and I said, “Please let me talk to him; Let …

Historical Drama Series Director Marvin Chomsky has died at the age of 92.

While working as the artistic director of the “Doctors and Nurses” series in the early 1960s, the show’s executive producer Herbert Brodkin asked Mr. Chomsky if he wanted to be a producer. Mr. Chomsky refused, saying he would rather be a director. He went on to direct three episodes of the show, followed by extended …

New MoMA PS1 Director Stands and Reaches for Social Justice

Shortly after Kate Fowle became the director MoMA PS1 in 2019Home Room” collaborates with organizations in Long Island City and neighboring neighborhoods on exhibits on climate justice, migrant work, and Black transgender identity. British-born Fowle also treats the exterior wall around the MoMA PS1 as a barrier between the museum and its surroundings – opening …

Review: Director Lloyd Kaufman Returns With Shakespeare Parody

If you’ve come to a theater near you and complained about the lack of whale poop and the explosion of their genitals, don’t worry: Troma Entertainment hears your pain. And with “#ShakespearesShitstorm” – billed, I’m not kidding, as a musical adaptation of “The Tempest” – enduring director Lloyd Kaufman shakes up multiple concepts onscreen to …

Russia and Ukraine are the subject of this director for a long time

Scenes of German and Soviet soldiers taking over Ukraine “Babi Yar: Context” by Sergei Loznitsa Inevitably, it brings to mind the current Russian occupation of the country. A Ukrainian filmmaker who grew up in the Soviet Union, Loznitsa has been recording the past and present in Ukraine and Russia for over two decades, reviewing historical …

A Director (Uncomfortably) Returns to His Working-Class Roots

PARIS — French director Christophe Honoré, best known for films like “Love Songs” and “Sorry Angel,” has been doing extraordinary work in recent years, and international audiences are missing out. Reason? It happens on the theater stages in his own country. From “idolsA play dedicated to a number of French artists who died at the …