Regina Weinreich

The Other Funny Girl: Julie Benko, Broadway’s Most Valuable Player, Jazzes It Up with a Little Birdland Gumbo

Julie Benko: she's not a marquee name unless you're a fan of "Funny Girl" since it opened on Broadway almost a year...

Remembering “Wall Street” Producer Ed Pressman, a Beloved New York Institution

The marquee at the legendary Paris Theater said it all about how you celebrate the life of beloved movie producer Ed Pressman who died...

Forget White Lotus: The Real Italy Develops in Bruce Weber’s Gorgeous New Doc About 97 Year Old Photographer Paolo Di Paolo

If you think scenic Sicily is having a moment in this season’s "White Lotus," check out the southern Italy of Bruce Weber’s ravishing "The...

Remembering Aline Kominsky-Crumb, An Icon for Feminists and Women Caricaturists in All Media

“The Crumb documentary is ruining my life,” complained Aline Kominsky-Crumb in 1993, as Terry Zwigoff’s biopic about Robert Crumb, her husband, gained...

(Some) Tony Nominees Do A Victory Lap: Waiting for Hugh Jackman, Though, is Time Consuming

Celebrating the Tony nominations this year held special excitement: it’s the 75th anniversary, the first in-person comeback after Covid, a year of...

Broadway Review: Mary Louise Parker and David Morse Soar in Complex “How I Learned to Drive” Revival

Ewwww! That’s not my critique of Paula Vogel’s tight memory play, "How I Learned to Drive"-- rather the play, now having a...

HBO Gives an Old Fashioned Premiere for Barry Levinson’s Extraordinary “The Survivor” Featuring a Knockout Ben Foster

Last night HBO returned to pre-pandemic form with an old fashioned New York premiere of Barry Levinson's extraordinary film, "The Survivor," starring Ben Foster....

Does Off Broadway Have Another “Hamilton”? One May Be Brewing with “Black No More” Starring Lillias White and Brandon Victor Dixon

Is there a new "Hamilton" brewing out there, off Broadway? Some say "Black No More," a musical adaptation of George S. Schuyler’s Afrofuturist...

Review: Japan’s “Drive My Car” Is Winning All the Critics Prizes for a Reason, It’s the Only Contemporary Drama

Life moves slowly. Loss. Grief. So much happens in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car," Japan’s entry for the Best International...

While “Sex and the City” Premieres at MoMA Tonight, Candace Bushnell Is On Stage Downtown

The new Kim Cattrall-less "Sex and the City" debuts tonight at the Museum of Modern Art with a big party. But downtown, last night, its...