Theater: Orpheus Waking
The classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is updated for modern audiences with "Orpheus Waking," a musical about a composer who is caught between his love and his career. With music ranging from ghostly to somber, the piece follows the composer into the underworld, where he encounters various familiar figures from Greek mythology. "Orpheus Waking" is a collaborative creative thesis project by Kelvin Dinkins Jr. and Jason Pomerantz, and it has a cool poster that lays it all out for you: New York on top and a dark and presumably hellish river below. Hades, here we come!
Matthews Acting Studio
April 23 and April 24, 8 p.m.
April 25, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Movie: Revolutionary Road
This weekend UFO transports us to Kate Winslet-land, a strange and bewildering place where everyone cries all the time and even the little kids are addicted to alcohol or drugs. That's right - it's "Revolutionary Road," the movie that takes the highly novel approach of portraying 1950s suburban America as a kind of unfriendly place. Doubt that one's been done before. But seriously, "Revolutionary Road" is the worst kind of Oscar-pandering movie-making, dressed up in all the accoutrements of an art film but with none of the substance. Kate and Leo shout a lot, the costumes are pretty, and there's a terrific supporting turn from Michael Shannon as the "wise fool" of the piece, but the movie never transcends its function as an Oscar-magnet. A New York Times review brilliantly described director Sam Mendes as filming 1950s America "like it was a foreign country." Couldn't have said it better myself.
Frist Performance Theatre
April 23 through 25, 11:45 p.m.
Theater: WaWall-E
Another cringe-worthy, Princeton-related pun? That must mean it's time for all things Triangle! Now in its 11th year, the annual spring show features brand-new material from Triangle's writers. And the plus? It's in the cozy little Whitman theater, which means people won't have microphones duct-taped to their faces and I'll actually be able to see them properly. Or maybe I'm the only one who always end up seeing Triangle shows from the back of McCarter Theatre's upper balcony?
Class of 1970 Theater
April 23 and April 24, 8 p.m.
April 25, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Movie: Banff Mountain Film Festival
If you've ever wondered what a "mountain film festival" is like (come on, I know you have), then come to McCosh 10 on Friday night for a presentation of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. The films featured will include supposedly the best films on all things mountainous, veering from remote landscapes to edge-of-your-seat action sports. You know, like that mountain-climbing film with Sylvester Stallone. Well, a little bit like that.
McCosh 10
April 24, 7 p.m.
Film: New York Film Festival at Princeton
The Subtitles Film Society is hosting the "New York Film Festival at Princeton," a stellar line up of critically acclaimed films, all of which fall into that "damn I wish I'd seen it, but now it's gone" category. So, catch up! This Saturday there's "24 City," a bleak depiction of the dark side of industrialization by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. And on April 29, there's a screening of "Waltz with Bashir," an animated depiction of the Israeli-Lebanon war which won just about every movie award it could lay its hands on. Ari Folman, the film's director, will be there for a discussion. No wonder it's called the "New York Film Festival at Princeton."
"24 City" at 185 Nassau St.
April 25, 8 p.m.
"Waltz with Bashir" at the Garden Theatre
April 29, 8 p.m.
•PHILADELPHIA•
Art: Shopping in Paris: 1850-1925
If you want a trip down a memory lane filled with beautiful excesses and fantastically impractical and expensive fashions that will tickle your Seven Jeans-clad bottom, then the Philadelphia Museum of Art's latest costume collection, "Shopping in Paris: 1850-1925" is probably the next best thing to "Gossip Girl." Proof that Americans' obsession with shopping is certainly not a new phenomenon, the collection has enough silk, lace, tulle, sequins, crystals, fur and pearls to be every 5-year-old girl's dream come true.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Through October 25
•NEW YORK•
Art: "The Generational: Younger than Jesus"
The New Museum didn't want to exclude anybody in their new "Younger than Jesus" exhibit. At least anybody under the age of 33. The first edition of "The Generational," the New Museum's new triennial feature, includes the work of 50 artists from 25 different countries whose only apparent unifying theme is Generation Y. The patterns that emerge from the various works supposedly define how these consumption-obsessed individuals view the world. Here's to hoping it doesn't look too familiar.
The New Museum, New York
Through July 5
Music: Lou Reed
The former Velvet Underground front man and all-round rock 'n' roll icon continues to settle into his comfortable role as one of the genre's most respected elder statesmen. The past few years have seen the rocker building up his reputation as a spellbinding live performer, mixing solo hits ("Walk on the Wild Side"!) with Velvet Underground classics ("I'm Waiting for the Man"!) and occasionally performing albums from his back-catalogue in their entirety.
Blender Theater at Gramercy, New York
April 23 and April 24, 8 p.m.
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