Beloved by the adults who grew up with it and the children just finding out about it, Shrek the movie and its timeless characters are still every bit as fun and relevant today as they were 23 years ago. So, it was with great delight that my Shrek-loving seven-year old daughter and I – also a big fan – heard that the award-winning Broadway and West End hit show ‘Shrek the Musical’ was going to be staged in Derry’s Millennium Forum. We headed off to opening night on Tuesday evening, full of...
Like a day-old bagel, "The Outsiders" is only a sufficient Broadway musical if you're absolutely starved for options.
They’ve gotta keep marching.
What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine.
Amazon Music joins the AI music trend by releasing the beta version of its AI-generated playlist feature.
Lucy Boynton plays a woman who can travel back in time with the power of a song in a high-concept, low-enjoyment fantasyIn the often insufferably cutesy romance The Greatest Hits, our heroine travels back in time whenever a song from her past is played, nostalgia acting as a magical, transporting force. While watching the film, we too are pulled back but rather to all of the far superior films we’re inconveniently reminded of, from High Fidelity to Richard Curtis’s similarly high-concept About...
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New YorkSE Hinton’s novel, which was adapted by Francis Ford Coppola for film, makes for a competent yet forgettable stage showIf Broadway must, for the same risk-averse pressures as Hollywood, keep rummaging through the library for more and more past touchstones to adapt, it could do worse than The Outsiders. SE Hinton’s seminal young adult novel has been a staple of middle and high school English classes for more than half a century for a reason. Though its once...
I think we all need to say a collective “thank you” to Taylor Swift. Not only is she releasing her new album The Tortured Poets Department, but she’s also following up the goods with a video clip for the album’s first track “Fortnight”. Mother knows we’re hungry! Mother knows the Swifties need to eat! She […]
Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok after Universal Music Group pulled it back in February due to a disagreement over artist compensation. Her new album, 'The Tortured Poets Department' drops on April 19.
Produced through Fabula, the film is co-financed by Participant and Fremantle.
(Parkwood/Columbia)The Texan superstar’s eighth album is a thrilling 27-track journey through and beyond America’s roots music, and it feels like a genuine feastEver since Beyoncé – to quote the lady herself – “changed the game with that digital drop” via her self-titled fifth album, released without warning in 2013, she’s become the fixed point around which popular culture oscillates. Bandwidth-swallowing think pieces, detailed decoding of every lyric, plus an increasingly vexed right-wing...
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 16th, 2024. A fairly standard Tuesday, by most measures. … Continue reading "SwitchArcade Round-Up: Reviews Featuring ‘EGGCONSOLE Dragon Slayer IV’, Plus the Latest Releases and Sales"