Roundabout Theatre Company’s charming new production of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick‘s She Loves Me will seem familiar to most. In fact, the story is not original. You’ve probably seen it on screen– The Shop Around the Corner (1940), In the Good Old Summertime (1949), or You’ve Got Mail (1998)– or maybe you’ve even seen it on stage in its original conception: Miklós László’s Parfumerie (1937). László’s play has had a remarkable life, and the frequency with which writers adapt it is a testament to the story’s charm. As in the László play, She Loves Me‘s two main characters, Amalia and
Y’all, Outlander is coming back. Season 2 of the steamy Starz series about time travelers and rogues, rebels and healers returns to a TV near you this Saturday, April 9th, at 10:00 p.m. EST. We thought we’d use this opportunity to initiate geek-out mode and crank up the volume of our excitement about seeing Jamie’s eyes and legs and smile and kilt and arms the show again. My fellow sassenachs: here are the best moments of Outlander season 1. Best Fight This show is chock-full of great fight scenes. But the most
Empire Records may have been a dud at the box office when it was released in 1995, but it’s since become a cult classic. I personally have seen the film too many times to count and have attended summer outdoor screenings that seem to be popular on both coasts. At those screenings, lines are rambunctiously shouted out by the audience and the shared experience that creates makes the film even more enjoyable. As many teen films before it, Empire Records at its heart was about a group of misfit teenagers:
Robin Hood meets Snow White in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival production of The Robber Bridegroom. It is a rollicking tale of money, jealousy, and love told with a generous amount of humor and twangy Southern charm. Jamie Lockhart (a smooth-voiced Steven Pasquale) is a two-faced ruffian. In town, he is known as an upstanding citizen; in the woods, though, he is the bandit known as The Robber in the Woods. With his face stained by berry juice to disguise his features, he moves between his two worlds seamlessly. Rosamund, the