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“Music, Give Us Hope” — Two Exceptional Singers in a Moving Recital (for Parterre Box)

September 10, 2020

This lovely program of arias, duets and songs reveals an entrepreneurial spirit and undaunted good humor.

Slow Curtain: David and Cameron Discuss Of Human Bondage and The Whales of August

August 31, 2020

Two films 50 years apart prove that Bette Davis is always—gloriously—Bette Davis.

Do You Ever Dream of Vienna?— Cameron and David Discuss Johnny Guitar (for Parterre Box)

August 20, 2020

The delightfully subversive Western features one of Joan Crawford’s most iconic performances.

Two Sisters: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Revisited (for Parterre Box)

August 17, 2020

As Blanche Hudson might have said, “It’s still a pretty good picture”… and then some!

Going South: Looking at Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (for Parterre Box)

August 10, 2020

Another installment in our series on Bette Davis brings us to the second thriller in the famous Robert Aldrich diptych.

On the Wings of Eagels: More Versions of Maugham’s The Letter on Film (for Parterre Box)

July 31, 2020

Jeanne Eagels and Siobhan McKenna show that there are many ways to write The Letter.

Even Her Agony Was a Kind of Joy: Looking at The Letter with Bette Davis (for Parterre Box)

July 27, 2020

Bette Davis dazzles in one of her early signature films.

Mediocrities Everywhere: Amadeus from NT Live (for Parterre Box)

July 18, 2020

Peter Shaffer’s play is seen here for what it’s always been: a piece of lowbrow camp masquerading as highbrow art.

Sisters are doing it for themselves: Little Women in 1933 and 2019 (for Parterre Box)

July 13, 2020

Katharine Hepburn’s particular iconoclastic style certainly suits Jo March.

Youth Comes to the Fore: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (for Parterre Box

July 6, 2020

In one of her earliest film performances, already: “The girls got something!”

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