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Anyone who hangs around the theatre scene in New York City may notice puppeteer pioneer Jim Henson’s influence wandering or floating upon the stage. First, the Sesame Street monsters finally got an off-Broadway show last spring. The Dark Crystal-inspired The Immortal Jellyfish Girl also…

Theater Diva Caroline Cao reviews Decision to Leave, a South Korean romantic mystery, for Fantastic Fest. Park Chan-Wook‘s Decision to Leave is a tragic love story, told with a gusto of laughs until the final punch. When Korean detective Hae-jun…

Is the rom-com equivalent term for a platonic relationship a friendship flick? This is Ed Helms and Patti Harrison‘s dynamic in Nikole Beckwith‘s Together Together. They navigate surrogacy and friendship and their boundaries getting tested by the world or themselves….

Geek Gal Caroline Cao is having fun at Sundance (at home on the sofa, sometimes from the bed!). Here is her review of the new film Passing.

Geek Gal Caroline Cao is having fun at Sundance (at home on the sofa, sometimes from the bed!). Here are some of her first recent viewings.

Our Geek Gal and Theater Diva Caroline Cao reviews another playwright find! Playing at the Public Theater, Soft Power is a rebuke against the Western tendencies for works like King and I to exoticize Asian people and their culture and…

Our own Geek Gal Caroline Cao attended the New York Film Festival, which dished out some riveting pictures, ranging from sci-fi and┬ámagical┬áto the grimly real. The best films of NYFF pertained to the delicate underpinnings of class relations, which are…

Penned by playwright Eva MeiLing Pollit with phantasmagorical flair, ├ël├⌐phant – now playing at┬áClemente Soto Velez Cultural Center -┬á┬áis harrowing like a dark nursery rhyme where a false sense of comfort cannot conceal darker implications. A Planet Connections Festivity production,…

I saw it. I finally snagged a student discount for the balcony seating of Disney’s Aladdin. Which is impressive, because student discounts for Disney Broadway productions like Lion King and Frozen are one-in-a-million. Based on the 1992 animated Disney classic,…

Sex can be appetizing, though in the case of a young 20-something woman, it is a tiresome pursuit of love ΓÇô being loved for that matter. In Unlovable, Rooftop Films has dishes out an endearing oddity about a taboo matter:…