Arts

Screenwriters Seth Lochhead and David Farr seem to enable Wright’s wandering and squandering, as shapeless supporting roles allow for an overacting Blanchett and an underused Olivia Williams.

What are you working on right now? It’s a been a pretty busy season for me. At UVA, we opened The Beaux’ Stratagem a few weekends ago, and I did the longest fight I’ve ever done on stage, a crazy, Errol Flynn–esque swashbuckling sword fight. The show is set in the 18th century, so I […]

It’s not always enough for a man to coast on his credentials. That’s what Wells’ characters learn when the Great Recession comes to their Boston-based multinational transportation conglomerate.

“Extreme Couponing” Wednesday 9 & 9:30pm, TLC My couponing skills extend to getting 50 cents off the fancier box of macaroni and cheese. But there are people who take couponing seriously, spending hours every week tracking down thousands of the circulars most of us recycle from the Sunday paper so that they can get a […]

What were you doing when we called? I was napping with my daughter and trying to get her to go to sleep by singing her songs. The last one was Yo La Tengo. “By the Time It Gets Dark” is a song she likes. I do a lot of really long ballads, and if I […]

“Body of Proof” Tuesday 10pm, ABC Dana Delaney is much missed on “Desperate Housewives,” but you can’t blame the magnetic ginger for wanting a show of her own. In this new procedural (I know, I know…) she plays Megan Hunt, a hotshot neurosurgeon who becomes a medical examiner after a car accident pushes her out […]

A young man, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, awakens abruptly on a Chicago-bound commuter train. He’s not sure how he got here, or why the pretty stranger across from him, played by Michelle Monaghan, is acting so familiar and calling him by someone else’s name.

What are you working on right now? I’m working on new material for a piece that I’m going to do to the Persian drumming of Djamshid Chemirani. Over the past 10 years or so I’ve been exploring my roots in Iran. I did a solo called “Under the Veil” and then developed that into a […]

This Illusionist has all the elements of a Tati movie: the nearly wordless austerity, the wistful piquancy, the affectionate and meticulous attention to the details of a landscape that overwhelms the characters that populate it.

“Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen” Tuesday 10pm, SyFy Marcel Vigneron was the breakout star of the controversial second season of Bravo’s cooking competition, “Top Chef.” The cocky, crazily-coiffed “molecular gastronomist” (a fancy term for a chef who uses high-tech preparation techniques) was originally portrayed as the series villain, but became the underdog victim after being repeatedly bullied […]