Category: Entertainment
Why layoffs keep hammering the game industry
[ad_1] There are rumors that “Grand Theft Auto VI” has a budget of $2 billion. It’s just hearsay. But hearsay can seem believable when it comes to video games, often touted as the most profitable, biggest entertainment medium on the planet, with franchises that inspire 11-digit transactions and budgets and development times that can dwarf
Zen masters: How ‘Perfect Days’ connects to ‘The Matrix,’ and ‘Barbie’
[ad_1] An appreciation of Zen movies that recognize the karmic tragicomedy of life, including ‘Perfect Days,’ ‘Groundhog Day’ and ‘Barbie.’ [ad_2] Source link
Where to see art gallery shows in the D.C. region
[ad_1] The world is almost entirely black and white in “After Thought — Emotional Landscapes,” a three-artist show at Washington Printmakers Gallery. But not all that black is ink. Erin Owen’s “Dreams of Glacier National Park” haphazardly piles greenish glass balls, partly filled with crude oil, atop crisscrossed wooden dowels. Those rods can be removed,
Spring’s 10 essential pop concerts
[ad_1] D.C.’s spring concert season is rife with homegrown talent. [ad_2] Source link
Breaking down Jennifer Lopez’s bizarre movie ‘This is Me … Now’
[ad_1] You can never accuse Jennifer Lopez of being a minimalist. This Friday, the multi-hyphenate entertainer released “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” a sweeping project that is both a studio album (her ninth) and an hour-long musical film. And if that weren’t enough J-Lo for you, there is an accompanying behind-the-scenes documentary,
The best D.C. classical music concerts in spring 2024
[ad_1] After welcoming mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis in January and tenor Russell Thomas for a Valentine’s Day recital, Vocal Arts DC concludes its strong spring season with a pair of world premiere performances. Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack and pianist Keun-A Lee will give the world premiere of a new song cycle by Rene Orth as well as
The best new art museum exhibits to see this spring
[ad_1] When you know how much creativity, time, money and high-level negotiations go into organizing museum exhibitions — often two to 10 years in the making — you can’t help but marvel at how many we have every year to choose from. America has some of the world’s best, most ambitious and, frankly, most productive
Michael Cera came of age on-screen. Now he’s all grown up.
[ad_1] As Michael Cera surveys the path ahead, the 35-year-old actor is growing a bit concerned about the possibility he’ll slip up and take a tumble. It’s a reasonable worry, since only some of the sidewalks have been cleared on this icy January morning in Brooklyn. So Cera — initially unrecognizable in a hat, scarf
‘Private Jones’ at Signature Theatre review: Stirring and provocative
[ad_1] François Truffaut supposedly said there’s no such thing as an antiwar film. “Private Jones,” Signature Theatre’s stirring new show about a deaf sniper in World War I, had me wondering whether it’s possible to make an antiwar musical. The piece has the shape of innumerable stories of boys transformed by conflict — training and
‘How to Have Sex’ director Walker and star McKenna-Bruce discuss consent
[ad_1] Like lots of British teens, writer-director Molly Manning Walker spent her school holidays taking cheap, parent-free flights with friends to Greek and Spanish party resort towns like Malia and Ibiza, trying to live out their “Love Island” fantasies amid a cocktail of raging hormones, endless inebriation and peer pressure. It might sound familiar to
A love letter to DC9, delivered via Snail Mail
[ad_1] It’s been six years since Lindsey Jordan was catapulted headfirst into indie darling-hood and three since she released an album that proved she’d earned that title. She’s headlined international tours and played her first Coachella last spring. So what was she doing back at a venue like DC9? The club is the kind of
A new ‘Peter Pan’ tries to nix its racist depictions of Indigenous themes
[ad_1] When producers approached Larissa FastHorse about adapting a new production of “Peter Pan,” the Sicangu Lakota playwright did not have to think long about her response. “I said, ‘No, absolutely not. I want nothing to do with “Peter Pan,”’” she recalls. She knew the Never Land story as a trove of racist stereotypes about
‘Perfect Days’ is a perfect movie about cleaning public toilets
[ad_1] StarSolidStarSolidStarSolidStarSolid(4 stars) The premise of “Perfect Days” is perfectly simple: Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) lives in Tokyo, where he cleans bathrooms in the city’s Shibuya district, approaching his job with the same care and detail he gives to the tree seedlings he’s nurturing in his modest, sparsely furnished apartment. Living alone, he pursues quiet routine,
‘Madame Web’: Spider-verse-adjacent action flick has low-key appeal
[ad_1] StarSolidStarSolidStarHalfStarOutline(2.5 stars) Dakota Johnson isn’t an obvious choice for a superhero. Best known for “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the actress mostly exudes a laid-back, half-lidded, even soporific energy that only rarely rears up with intensity, as it did in her acclaimed supporting performance in “The Lost Daughter.” But that may be precisely the best
Washington Post hardcover bestsellers – The Washington Post
[ad_1] 1 THE WOMEN (St. Martin’s, $30). By Kristin Hannah. An Army nurse in Vietnam treats soldiers wounded in combat but struggles to find support when she returns home. 2 THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE (Riverhead, $28). By James McBride. In a ramshackle Pennsylvania neighborhood during the 1920s and ’30s, Jewish and African American
‘The New Look’ on Apple TV Plus isn’t as new as one might wish
[ad_1] To build a story around a “revolutionary” new hip-to-waist ratio in dressmaking — when the pressing issues of the moment include the Nazi occupation of Paris, torture and concentration camps — requires a steady and bold authorial hand. With such a project, there can be no hesitation. No apologies. No timidity. One can easily
Best Broadway shows and other theater this spring in New York and D.C.
[ad_1] Carell makes his Broadway debut in a new translation of the Anton Chekhov staple, courtesy of “What the Constitution Means to Me” playwright Heidi Schrek. Carell plays Vanya, a bitter man wrestling with regret while overseeing his brother-in-law’s estate, in a cast that also includes Alison Pill, Anika Noni Rose, William Jackson Harper, Jayne
Jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer wants to be heard loud and clear
[ad_1] NEW YORK — As enchanted staircases go, the entry to the Village Vanguard is tough to beat. Duck down the steps and you’re walking into one of the most storied rooms in American music. You’re also stepping out of the cruelty of the world. On a recent Tuesday evening, at the start of a
Jon Stewart saves ‘The Daily Show’ (and vice-versa)
[ad_1] Jon Stewart has returned to “The Daily Show” in top form, armed to the teeth with counterarguments. Against whom? You might ask. Or what? The answer is, roughly: everyone. That’s not exactly a surprise. Stewart, whose brand has long been “scrappy outsider telling it like it is,” is as reflexively defensive as he is
The best new TV shows, series to watch and stream in spring 2024
[ad_1] It turns out a fall TV strike makes for a very lush TV spring. A number of shows originally slated for this past fall are finally airing, such as Donald Glover’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” a wryly unglamorous riff on the 2005 film. Co-starring Maya Erskine and featuring guest stars including John Turturro, Parker
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’ is slim pickings
[ad_1] One of the great tragedies in 21st-century popular music is how the words “new Kanye West album” went from meaning “thrilling expression of pathfinding nowness” to “sad guy saying more gross stuff.” What an undoing. We should be mourning a lost greatness, but grief feels impossible when the fallen maestro won’t stop being hateful
‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche is Mona Lisa in the kitchen
[ad_1] StarSolidStarSolidStarSolidStarOutline(3 stars) In “The Taste of Things,” a radiant Juliette Binoche plays Eugénie, a gifted cook who for the past 20 years has been running the kitchen of a 19th-century epicurean named Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel). As the movie opens, Eugénie is harvesting vegetables from Dodin’s garden, smiling beatifically and delicately rearranging wisps of
Ludwig’s ‘Lend Me a Soprano’ doesn’t quite sing at Olney Theatre Center
[ad_1] The prolific playwright Ken Ludwig wrote the door-slamming international hit “Lend Me a Tenor,” the book for the Gershwin refresh “Crazy for You” and, I kid you not, a joke involving a Hollywood starlet who thinks Marie Curie discovered the first antibiotic — and pronounces “penicillin” the way you’re really not supposed to. So,
Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em,’ ’16 Carriages’ are not Beyoncé-grade
[ad_1] I understand and cherish the fact that pop music is a playground of identities where queens are free to play cowgirls, but I don’t want to play along with these two new Beyoncé songs. Released in the dim afterglow of a hacky telecom commercial that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday night, the
Synetic Theater reprises its riveting ‘Romeo & Juliet’
[ad_1] It’s often said that successful relationships are all about timing, and Synetic Theater’s propulsive production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is entirely built upon that principle. The fair Verona where the troupe convenes is styled as the inner workings of a clock, with a giant pendulum swinging from the rafters and a gaggle of
The best Broadway love songs about the love you feel right now
[ad_1] There’s a special connection between love and musicals, starting with the trope of the “conditional love song.” It’s the one early in the show when characters envision the prospect of love (“If I Loved You” from “Carousel,” “I’ll Know” from “Guys and Dolls”), often asserting their wrongness for each other in a way that
Usher marries Jennifer Goicoechea on Super Bowl Sunday
[ad_1] Usher stepped out in front of the biggest audience of his life during halftime at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, winning widespread acclaim for his high-energy performance. The platinum-selling R&B artist also found a quieter moment the same day to marry his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Goicoechea. According to the Clark County Clerk’s Office
Beyoncé’s new country songs salute the genre’s Black cultural roots
[ad_1] If you were surprised by the two country-infused songs Beyoncé dropped on Sunday night, hold your horses — this isn’t her first rodeo. In fact, fans have long speculated that such a genre-shifting project from the pop icon was imminent: There was the custom Louis Vuitton fit she wore to the Grammys last week
Seiji Ozawa taught generations of listeners to embrace the classics
[ad_1] There’s an episode of “What’s My Line?” from July 7, 1963, that features an auspicious appearance by a rising 27-year-old “symphony conductor” by the name of Seiji Ozawa, and a thoroughly stumped panel of celebrity guessers. Ozawa had earned the prestigious Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood Music Center under his mentor Charles Munch just three
‘The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes’ at Woolly Mammoth review: Funny, spooky, poignant
[ad_1] Racquel and Gabby have creativity to spare. Not only have these HBCU dance team members cooked up a gleefully provocative song to perform at homecoming — after euphemizing for prudish-alumni ears, the number is called “Body, Body, Body, Body (Murder This Body)” — they have also crafted the moves to go with it. Watch