A Russian folktale dating back ten generations is revived this season in a fresh retelling. In a forest gone silent, a young Huntsman finds a single golden feather blazing on the path before him — a feather shed from the burning breast of the Firebird, the most extraordinary creature in all the world. Against the counsel of his talking horse, he takes it. And from that one moment of ambition, everything unravels. Task by task, a tyrannical ruler — the ego made sovereign — escalates his demands on the obedient Huntsman who stumbles deeper into complicity with the authoritarian regime. The Huntsman makes one compromise after another, each one more absurd than the last, until he can no longer remember where his own will has ended and the tyrant's began. All the while the caged Firebird watches from the courtyard with eyes full of impossible light. Something is calling to him from the far horizon of his heart. Courage won't be enough to answer that call. Neither will serenity. Only a willingness to be completely undone. This is a thousand-year-old Russian folktale. It is also a story about right now. The ReMemberers bring this ancient tale to life through voice, world percussion, and acoustic strings in a ninety-minute performance that feels equal parts theater and concert. An evening that will remain with you like an old friend returning home.
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After sold-out performances from the Sydney Opera House to Prague, Carnegie Hall to Iceland, internationally touring violin sensation Blue Violin returns with the 4th Annual Retro Rock & Roll Christmas Tour — an electrifying holiday spectacular blending the energy of an 80s arena rock show with the magic of Christmas.
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Clean Comedy Kings delivers a night of unforgettable comedy with Marc Yaffee (Showtime, Dry Bar Comedy) and Jimmy Della Valle (Netflix and HBO). Two distinct comedy voices. Two polar-opposite personalities: Jimmy's East Coast bravado and Marc's West Coast clever. Jimmy turns his grievances into punchlines and his gift of gab into memorable crowd work. Marc's insightful observations flip societal stupidities and everyday aggravations into audience-relatable laughs. This one-two comedy punch delivers a knockout night of funny, not filthy stand-up.
Rfor sexual content and language.
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.
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The seven person crew of the Weyland yutani commercial spacecraft Nostromo. After intercepting an unknown distress signal from an uncharted moon (LV-426) and investigating, the crew unwittingly brings a deadly, parasitic Alien aboard, which begins to hunt them down one by one.
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Tucker & Dale take a vacation to their dilapidated mountain cabin, only to be mistaken for murderous backwoods killers by a group of paranoid college students. As a chain of hilarious and gruesome accidents unfolds, the kids mistakenly believe the pair is hunting them down and accidentally kill themselves in spectacular fashion while attempting to "save" their friend.
What happens after the revolution? Liberation animates the ideals of a generation meeting the realities of a lifetime. Sparkling with wit and irresistible humor, Wohl’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning comedy celebrates the messy business of changing the world—and yourself. As the play moves between a vibrant women's liberation retreat in the 1970s and the present day, seven extraordinary women weave their memories, idealism, and hard-earned experiences into a rich meditation on feminism, intimate relationships, and the passage of time.
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Olivier and Tony® Award winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.
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Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend. Finn den Hertog directs the provocative and entertaining production filmed live from @sohoplace on London’s West End.
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Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.
RBloody violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and some language
Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is due for resurrection. And one young director (Hannah Einbinder) is more than up to the task. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress (Gillian Anderson), the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, delirium — under threat from the spear-wielding Little Death. Winner of the Queer Palm, this transformative Cannes favorite leads its protagonists to true fulfillment, encouraging us to ask how we can reach our own.
Rfor moments of extremely graphic sexuality
Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter and beloved piano in tow. Her practical new husband refuses to transport the piano to their home and makes a deal with his neighbor, George Baines to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters. As pent-up emotions of rage and desire swirl around all three characters, the savage wilderness begins to consume the tiny European enclave.
A remote cabin. A rushing river. Two strangers—and secrets as deep as the water below. In Jez Butterworth's mesmerizing The River, an ordinary weekend unfolds into a haunting exploration of love, loss, and the mysteries we keep hidden, even from ourselves.
Rfor pervasive language, drug use, and sexual content/nudity.
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Celebrate the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances. Hosted by star soprano Renée Fleming, this special presentation will showcase unforgettable moments from some of opera’s greatest stars, culled from the series’s vast archive of transmissions. FEATURING Renée Fleming, Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Natalie Dessay, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Peter Mattei, and more.