When Banker White’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he did something unexpected: He decided to make a movie about it. Along with his co-director and now-wife Anna Fitch, he observed and...

What happens when you take an opera, and throw everything conventional about it out of the window? Get rid of the plot. Trade soaring music and lyrics for soothing repetition. Tell the audience that, due to a lack of...

Over the years, Pixar has taken us on magical journey after magical journey. Rapt audience members have traversed the ocean with a couple of endearing fish and some surfer-dude turtles. We’ve been pulled up into...

For subway commuters in New York City and other cities around the world, subterranean musicians are a near-constant presence. These performers range in age, race, and talent. They play everything from the classical...

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City is deep in the throes of Men in Black 3 mania, and it’s reaching frenzied heights. Like a hungry space creature, it devours everything it touches, although being...

Look out. Aliens exist among us. Lady Gaga is probably one. Justin Bieber? Almost certainly; the friendly owner of your local Chinese restaurant is definitely hiding some extra, otherworldly appendages.

A tramp has wandered onto the stage of BAM’s Harvey Theater. His tattered shoes fit poorly, tufts of his hair stick up, and you can practically smell the stink rising off of his unwashed body. He’s the type of...

Often, it’s near-impossible to believe that American women won the right to vote less than 100 years ago. When reminded, many think of the fight for enfranchisement as a relatively benign process: men were puffed...

One cold morning in 2007, a man stood inside the entrance of a Washington, D.C. subway station and played the violin. Occasionally, the people walking by tossed money into his violin case or, in extremely rare...

Lithe dancers from one of America’s premier ballet companies twirl and leap, their technique top-notch, their extended limbs seemingly reaching the heavens. But instead of the expected Stravinsky or Tchaikovsky...