Forbes on Film & Footlights

By Harry Forbes By Noel Coward’s own admission, he wrote “Present Laughter” “with the sensible object of providing (himself) with a bravura ...

By Harry Forbes It’s been seven years since Mel Gibson has had a starring role, but graying hair and lined visage notwithstanding, he delive...

By Harry Forbes Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project – a joint venture of BAM, London’s Old Vic, and Neal Street – scores another triumph with this lo...

By Harry Forbes The fledgling Light Opera of New York company presented its first full-length, staged production at the Players Thursday eve...

By Harry Forbes Only a real he-man like Dwayne Johnson could so unflinchingly play a character who, in the course of the film, must “learn t...

By Harry Forbes Kudos to Irish Rep for yet again resurrecting a little-performed musical based on Oscar Wilde. As with Noel Coward’s “After ...

By Harry Forbes Though several notches below “The Mikado,” “The Pirates of Penzance,” and H.M.S. Pinafore,” on the popularity scale, “Ruddig...