Joe Meyers
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In song, Bebe Neuwirth stays in character
Bebe Neuwirth doesn't use her concert appearances as a chance to shoot the breeze about her life and career in between songs. The actor-dancer-singer would rather turn an evening into a collection of scenes that she can act out through the words and melodies of great songwriters. Earlier in her career, the two-time Tony Award winning Broadway star wondered if she could ever perform by herself in… → Read More
Vagabond Theatre Company is home again as it returns to Bridgeport
Like the city where they have produced plays - Bridgeport - the Vagabond Theatre Company is scrappy and hopeful, despite big challenges. An offshoot of the Bijou Actors Guild, the VTC has been without a permanent home since the original management team left the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport two years ago, but the group has continued to produce plays in Bridgeport and Trumbull. VTC will be back at… → Read More
New on Netflix, HBO, Amazon and Hulu November 2018
November signals the start of prime TV-watching season as teh days get shorter and the weather gets colder. Click through to see what you have to look forward to on streaming services this November, and read below for our top picks. _____________________________________ "Box of Moonlight" (Amazon) - Many of us first noticed Sam Rockwell in this unheralded 1996 indie film written and directed by… → Read More
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast speaks at luncheon
New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist Roz Chast is the guest speaker at a Stamford luncheon that will benefit SilverSource. The artist won great acclaim in 2014 for her graphic novel "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" which was inspired by Chast's own experiences with her aging parents. Chast, who lives in Ridgefield, has been contributing drawings and cartoons to The New Yorker for… → Read More
Leaving streaming services November 2018
As another month comes to an end so does the chance to catch some great movies on streaming services. Read below to check out some not-to-be-missed titles leaving Netflix, HBO and Hulu in November and click through the slideshow to see the other movies whose streaming life is coming to an end. ______________ "The Devil Wears Prada" (HBO) – Movie comfort food at its best. Meryl Streep is very… → Read More
Bridgeport venue brings back cult hit ‘Rocky Horror’
Revelers will be time-warping back to 1975 at a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screening at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre. The Bridgeport venue is hosting an "audience participation" event reminiscent of the midnight screenings of the horror musical in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The film version of a London stage hit was a flop when it first opened at the end of 1975 in a regular theatrical… → Read More
Fox Business anchor enjoying move to prime time TV — and to Fairfield County
New home, new job. 2018 has been a time of major life changes for Fox Business anchor Trish Regan. On Oct. 15, she moved from her afternoon, market-focused show "The Intelligence Report" to a new 8 p.m. program "Trish Regan Primetime," where she will be able to take a broader look at the intersection of business news and the political scene. Meanwhile, in her personal life, the journalist and… → Read More
Hearst film club sees docs examining violence, PTSD
It was an emotional and enthralling night at the Bethel Cinema when Hearst co-sponsored screenings of two short films, "Surviving Theater 9" and "Little Fiel," with the weekly CT Film Fest 52 at the art house. Ridgefield artist Irina Patkanian talked about her stop-motion animated film "Little Fiel," which profiles the Mozambique artist Fiel dos Santos' struggle to survive as a child during the… → Read More
Fairfield writer explores history of 1967 Bigfoot film
Running neck and neck with the Zapruder film, in terms of endless analysis, is a 60-second piece of 16mm footage that has come to be known as the Patterson-Gimlin film. Shot in 1967 in Northern California, the film purports to show Bigfoot trudging past the camera, looking straight into the lens, and then heading off into the forest. Just as much of the case for a second gunman in the… → Read More
Ridgefield film fest features new doc about death of civil rights activist
Documentary filmmaking has come into its own over the past few years. Theatrically, non-fiction films as diverse as "RPG" and "Three Identical Strangers" have been box-office hits this year, and some of the most talked-about programming on the Netflix home streaming service has been non-fiction series such as "The Staircase" and "Wild Wild Country." Danbury filmmakers Kate Davis and David… → Read More
French prize winner ‘Custody’ gets state premiere in Stamford.
"Harrowing" and "heartfelt" are two of the words that keep popping up in reviews of the French film "Custody," which had its state theatrical premiere at the Avon Theatre in Stamford under the auspices of the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich and the Hearst Movie & A Martini group. The film about a bitter custody fight won the Silver Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, marking the… → Read More
Netflix Beatles-powered animated series gets Milford stage try-out
The hit Netflix animated series "Beat Bugs" is being turned into a stage show and Connecticut audiences will be the first to see it. Bert Bernardi, the artistic director of Pantochino Productions at the Milford Center for the Arts, snagged the rights to the developmental production before "Beat Bugs: A Musical Adventure" gets produced in theaters around the country next year. "I really wanted to… → Read More
Ridgefield indie fest showcases dozens of new movies
More than two dozen films and panels will be presented at the third annual Ridgefield Independent Film Festival. The festival, running from Thursday, Oct. 18 to Sunday, Oct. 21, will showcase the local premiere of "Wildlife," the directorial debut of actor Paul Dano, starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film is being screened opening night. New Canaan native Allison Williams, who… → Read More
Alliance Francaise sponsors Stamford screening of Agnes Varda classic
The newly restored version of Agnes Varda's 1977 French art house hit, "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" is being shown at the Avon Theatre. The writer-director's view of two very different women friends exploring the feminist liberation of the 1970s touched a chord in audiences all over the world. It became a cinematic touchstone of the so-called "Me Decade." Varda, who was an Oscar nominee this… → Read More
Stormy Daniels book: Trump called her 'Honey Bunch'
Today is the publication day for the Stormy Daniels memoir, "Full Disclosure" (St. Martin's Press). The book industry might be in a slump, but President Trump has been working wonders for it. The man hasn't even been in office for two years, but we have had a steady stream of memoirs and exposes for many months, from the Michael Woolff "Fire and Fury" through the James Comey memoir, the Omarosa… → Read More
‘Konversations with Keeme’ brings youthful twist to talk show format
A talk show for kids by kids. That's what "Konversations with Keeme" is designed to be and 13-year-old host Ajibola "Keeme" Tajudeen of Bridgeport has proven his ability to interview theater and media folks ranging from "Aladdin" star Juwan Alan Crawley to longtime Channel 8 anchorman Keith Kountz. The freshman at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven says he has gained… → Read More
New on Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and Hulu October 2018
No tricks, just treats when it comes to streaming in October, with your favorite horror movies, and more, coming to the small screen. → Read More
Leaving streaming services October 2018
What's scarier than a horror movie? Knowing that some of your favorite shows and movies are being removed from your favorite streaming service. Here are some movies and shows you should not miss before they come off streaming next month, and don't forget to check out the slideshow of notable movies and shows leaving streaming in the month of October. → Read More
‘Call Me’ author Andre Aciman to speak after Stamford screening
Andre Aciman, the author of the novel "Call Me By Your Name," will speak after a special screening of the Academy Award-winning film adaptation at the Avon Theatre. The 2017 film about the summer love affair between a graduate student (Armie Hammer) and his employer's son (Timothee Chalamet) was a major art house hit. The adaptation of the novel won an Oscar for veteran filmmaker James Ivory.… → Read More
The many phases of Jane Fonda’s life examined at Fairfield’s Quick Center
Survivor is not really the right word for Jane Fonda, even though she has been at the top of the show business heap for more than 50 years. Transformer might be a more accurate term, as moviegoers watched the star shift from her early cotton candy roles in films such as "Tall Story" and "The Chapman Report," to the sex kitten parts she played for her French director husband Roger Vadim, to the… → Read More