Dana Ivey

You can tell we're giving way to a new year: All the lists are coming out, including this wrap-up of 2008. Movies & TV *Great movie performances: Emma Thompson in Brideshead Revisited, Sean Penn in Milk, Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon, Richard Jenkins...

Among the adaptations of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on film: "Huckleberry Finn," 1920, silent film with Gordon Griffith "Huckleberry Finn," 1931, with Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jane Darwell "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"...

Amid the congested pantheon of romantic male leads, one would be hard-pressed to find a more improbable candidate than Ricky Gervais. I mean, can we talk? Even if one could somehow exorcise images of David Brent, the gaseous desk jockey immortalized by...

TV critics are a little snow-blind when it comes to Amy Sherman-Palladino's new FOX sitcom "The Return of Jezebel James." You see, like its small-yet-dedicated audience, we all loved "Gilmore Girls." We loved that in an hour, "Gilmore Girls" could be...

Events schedules frequently change. It's best to call the venue before you go. Annie Russell Theatre The theater is on the campus of Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Season tickets are $50 and $60 for general audiences, $47 and $57 for...

One of George Bernard Shaw's sharpest comedies, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" remains a timely and entertaining look at corruption among the female sex on both professional and personal levels. The Irish Repertory Theater's intimate new production, as...

Critic's Picks A Chorus Line, opening Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. All together now: "five, six, seven, eight!" The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning monument to Broadway gypsy dancers is back where its fans believe it has always belonged....

If an enterprising composer were to pen a ballad about the coming theater season, he could call it "Memory," because so much of what's stagebound has an air of familiarity. Again, a gorgeous movie star is making her Broadway debut, though it's Julianne...

Classic competition: i takes a vintage view Look out, Nick at Nite and TV Land. I see some competition in the land of reruns - er, "classic television." And make that "i" lower case, as in the i network operated by Ion Media Networks, which used to be...

Nathan Lane has known Ben Butley longer than he's known Max Bialystock, Timon the Meerkat and Oscar Madison combined. It's been 34 years, in fact, since the two-time Tony-winner first encountered the acerbic academic of Simon Gray's black comedy "Butley,"...

Nathan Lane did not start out as America's favorite wicked clown and second-generation Zero Mostel. Almost two decades ago, Lane shredded souls as the deeply conflicted South African prep-school teacher in Jon Robin Baitz's "The Film Society." A few...

We have two words of advice for Nathan Lane: calm down. It may finally be time for Lane to move beyond the sea of over-animated, manic-depressive characters that he's been portraying recently. His career has been in an awkward flux since his Tony-...