Each week in Curtain Raisers, we invite a local theater artist to attend a show of his or her choosing and discuss the results. On Friday, the director Sarah Benson opted to see Sam Gold's revival of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" at the Laura...

Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will be celebrated in Patti's Turn, an all-star evening of song and memories, presented by the Acting Company on Monday, March 12 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. The salute will feature Kevin Kline, Kristin...

So that eliminated any doubt that may have crept in. But it really wasn’t there. You hear Tom Hanks is on, you go, “Well, it can’t be all that bad.” Then you hear Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, and on and on. And then they...

In this Extremely Loud, there's no reason to explain Oskar's tambourine affectation, or the convoluted history between his grandmother (Zoe Caldwell) and "The Renter" (Max von Sydow) living in her spare bedroom, or why that renter has taken a vow of...

Loud and Incredibly Close (Paramount) Rated PG-13 for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language. Starring Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Zoe Caldwell, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright. Written by...

When he later finds a key among his dad's belongings, he becomes determined to locate the lock it matches, no matter how long it takes. Tom Hanks plays the dad, Sandra Bullock is his mother and the cast also includes Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John...