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I heard Annie Golden’s voice before I ever saw her. Her song “Hang Up the Phone”—a bizarrely peppy ode to romantic jealousy—made quite an impression on me as an adolescent when I heard it in John Hughes’ movie Sixteen Candles. I played it over and over and over again (on LP!), and I fell for […]

The Unkown Hero of the Comic Book Universe

King Kirby celebrates a forgotten legend — Why do some artists become household names while others toil away in obscurity? That question’s at the heart of King Kirby, a bio-play by husband-and-wife writers Fred Van Lente and Crystal Skillman that dramatizes the life and career of prolific comic book illustrator Jack Kirby. If you’re furrowing […]

He’s Underwater, and We Know What He’s Thinking

Now at 3-Legged Dog’s 3LD Art & Technology Center, the trippy hour-long show features shadows walking independently, bodies flailing in midair, and other impossible-to-believe visuals. All of these haunting special effects come courtesy of the Musion Eyeliner , a high-definition video hologram projection system that conjures 3D images live on stage. But even though the technology seems cutting

She May Be Gone, But We Can Finally See Her Play

— Brooklyn-based playwright and performer Oni Faida Lampley always used her personal life for inspiration. So when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37 in 1996 (in the midst of nursing her infant child and on the cusp of her first significant movie role in Lone Star ), it was almost inevitable that she would write about it.

Adapt Me Gently With a Chainsaw!

How Heathers the Musical tweaks the cult movie for a modern audience —

LBJ With a Touch of Shakespeare

As real-life Congress for Racial Equality leader David Dennis, Eric Lenox Abrams delivers an impassioned speech at the memorial service for three young Civil Rights activists murdered in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan (the same incendiary incident inspired the 1988 Oscar-nominated movie Mississippi Burning ). “Are you sick and tired of this stuff like I am?” he cries out from the stage left box o

Andy Bragen’s Life Story Is True Enough

Deception leads to honest revelations in the play This Is My Office

There’s Art for You in Astoria

Astoria, Queens has long been celebrated for its affordable rents and authentic Greek cuisine, but New Yorkers should really add “thriving cultural district” to its list of amenities. Within a few blocks, you’ll find Kaufman Astoria Studios, a bustling TV and movie complex that’s also home to the TDF Costume Collection; the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), which celebrates its 25th anniversary t

By RAVEN SNOOK