Film & Stage Reviews

Rogue Rock, Snakes and Shakes, Baroque Gems for N.Y. Weekend The four-member band Portugal. The Man started out in Wasilla, Alaska, but unlike Sarah Palin they come by the description “rogue” honestly. Their iconoclastic sound ranges from traditional rock to hippie to blues to hip- hop, all of which will be on display Friday night at the Highline Ballroom.

Aniston Snatched by Bounty Hunter; Jude Hunts for Organs: Film My favorite bounty-hunter movie is “Midnight Run,” featuring Robert De Niro as a divorced cop hired to capture an unlikely criminal for a big paycheck.

Hammy Feinstein, Dame Edna Join Egos in ‘All About Me’: Review “All About Me” on Broadway is a folie a deux starring Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna) and Michael Feinstein, which may strike you as likely as a joint recital by Renee Fleming and Beyonce: What could these two possibly have in common?

Stiller Builds Doghouse; Kristen Explodes ‘Cherry Bomb’: Movies Reminded by a friend that “life is wasted on the young,” Roger Greenberg goes one step further.

Patti Smith Misbehaves, Queen Loses Head: Great London Weekend Watch the blindfolded Queen of England get ready for execution as the first stop on your London weekend.

MacArthur ‘Genius’ Offers Primer on Horrible Writing: Review Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play (her 375th) “The Book of Grace” may not be the worst ever written, but it surely is the worst by a winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who teaches at New York University and is the first-ever holder of the Public Theater’s Master Writer Chair.

Sondheim Feted as David Hyde Pierce Sings to Baldwin (Update1) The Tony Awards Administration Committee ought to consider a category for “Best Stephen Sondheim 80th Birthday Fundraiser,” as a half-dozen are planned through July. The first -- the New York Philharmonic’s last night -- set a high bar for the rest.

Disney’s ‘Alice’ Is No. 1 Film Again, Has $62 Million in Sales “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll tale re-imagined in 3-D by director Tim Burton, was the top film in the U.S. and Canada for a second straight weekend, bringing in $62 million in ticket sales for Walt Disney Co.