Sitemap - 2023 - August Cosentino
Film: “Maestro” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper
Theater: “How to Dance in Ohio” @ the Belasco
Film: “Saltburn” (Amazon Prime)
Netflix: “The Crown,” season 6, part 2
Film: “All of Us Strangers” starring Paul Mescal
Theater: “Buena Vista Social Club” at Atlantic Theater
Max: “The Gilded Age” starring Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector
Paramount+: “Fellow Travelers” starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey
Jazz: “Big Band Holidays” with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Books: “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride
Books: “The Breakaway” by Jennifer Weiner
Theater: “Spain” at Second Stage
Film: “Cassandro” starring Gael Garcia Bernal
Theater: “The Garden of Anuncia” starring Pricilla Lopez
Netflix: “The Crown,” Season 6, Part 1
Theater: “Purlie Victorius” starring Leslie Odom Jr.
Theater: “School Pictures” and “Sad Boys in Harpy Land” @ Playwrights Horizons
Books: “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin
Theater: “Here We Are,” Sondheim’s final musical
Theater: “Adult (ish) Material” by Tiffa Foster @ HB Playwrights Theater
Theater: “Sabbath’s Theater” starring John Turturro
Film: Bunuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972)
Theater: “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” at Classic Stage
Theater: “Scene Partners”with Dianne Wiest
Theater: “Stereophonic” @ Playwrights Horizons
Dance: “The Koln Concert”. @ BAM
“Sabrina” (1954) starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden
Books: “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry
Dance: “Corps Extremes” at BAM
India: yay or nay? A guide to Asia’s most intriguing city
Jazz: Samara Joy @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Theater: “The Refuge Plays” @ Laura Pels Theater
Books: “The Guest” by Emma Cline
Books: “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett
Theater: “Infinite Life” by Annie Baker (Atlantic Theater)
Books: “The Humble Lover” by Edmund White
Theater: “Friends with Amenities” at 59 e 59
Books: “The Best Possible Experience” by Nishanth Injam
Theater: “Mary Gets Hers” at MCC
Theater: “Swing State” at the Minetta Lane Theater
Books: “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani
Books: “Seize the Day” by Saul Bellow
Theater: “Shucked,” new Bway musical comedy
Film: “Bottoms,” directed by Emma Seligman
Theater: “Dig,” new play by Theresa Rebeck
Theater: “Hamlet” starring Oscar Isaac (from 2017)
Broadway: “Mean Girls” (from 2019)
Mike Tyson Was Right: Life on the DL for an Avid Cyclist
Books: “Embers” by Sandor Marai
Books: “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home”by Lorrie Moore
Books: “Assembly” by Natasha Brown
Film: “Crazy Rich Asians” (review from 2017)
Books: “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins
Books: “Instructions for the Drowning: Stories” by Steven Heighton
Film: “Chinatown” starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway
Netflix: “Heartstopper,” Season 2
Theater: “Moulin Rouge on Bway” (review from 2019)
Film: “Black Kkklansman” directed by Spike Lee (review from 2017)
Books: “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style”
Amazon Prime: “Red, White, and Royal Blue”
Books: “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer (review from 2019)
Books: “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese
Film: “Theater Camp” with Ben Platt
Max: “An American Pickle” with Seth Rogen
Film: “Detroit” directed by Katherine Bigelow (review from 2017)
Books: “Countdown 1945” by Chris Wallace (review from 2020)
Peacock: “Pokerface” starring Natasha Lyonne
Film: “Oppenheimer” directed by Christopher Nolan
Books: “The Vegan” by Andrew Lipstein
Film: “Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood” dir. Quentin Tarentino
Books: “Holding the Note” by David Remnick
Theater: “Toros” @ Second Stage Uptown
Theater: “Did You Eat?” at 59 e 59
Theater: “The Half-God of Rainfall” @ New York Theatre Workshop
Books: “Bad Summer People” by Emma Rosenblum
Dance: “Pilobolus” @ the Joyce
Books: “The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson (from 2020)
Books: “The Wind Knows My Name” by Isabel Allende
Film: “American Graffiti” dir by George Lucas
Books: “The City and the Pillar” by Gore Vidal
Theater: “Hamlet” @ Shakespeare in the Park
Books: “Our Best Intentions” by Vibhuti Jain
Books: “Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D’” by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Books: “August” by Callan Wink (2020)
Books: “Romantic Comedy” by Curtis Sittenfeld
Film: “Midnight Cowboy” (1968) with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
Netflix: “Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton Story”
Film: “In Bruges” (2008) starring Colin Farrell
Books: “Games and Rituals” by Katherine Heiny
Film: “Tar” starring Cate Blanchett
Books: “Kantika” by Elizabeth Graver
Max: “Perry Mason, Season 2” starring Matthew Rhys
Theater: “Wet Brain” @ Playwrights Horizons
Theater: “Monsoon Wedding” @ St Ann’s Warehouse
Books: “The Queen of Dirt Island” by Donal Ryan
Theater: “Comeuppance” at Signature Theater
Theater: “Grey House” starring Laurie Metcalf
Netflix: “The Diplomat” starring Keri Russell
Books: “The Peking Express” by James Zimmerman
Books: “Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation” by Nancy Schoenberger
Theater: “Days of Wine and Roses” at Atlantic Theater Company
Theater: “The Habit of Art” by Alan Bennett @ 59E59
Dance: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce
Theater: “Shadow/LAND” @ the Public
Books: “Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Theater: “Regrettably, So the Birds Are” @ Playwrights Horizons
Theater: “New York, New York” at the St. James Theater
Books: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
Books: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
Theater: “Camelot” at Lincoln Center
Theater: “An American in Paris” (2015)
Theater: “Plays for the Plague Year” by Susan-Lori Parks
Books: “Redhead by the Side of the Road” by Anne Tyler
Film: “Triangle of Sadness” with Woody Harrelson
Books: “Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker” by David Mikics (2021)
Books: “Interpretation of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Theater: “The Lehman Trilogy” at Park Avenue Armory (2019)
Theater: “White Girl in Danger” at Second Stage
Theater: “The Wanderers”@ Laura Pels
Film: “Licorice Pizza,” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Film: “The Banshees of Inisherin” starring Colin Farrell
Theater: “Dark Disabled Stories” @ the Public
Theater: “How to Defend Yourself” at NYTW
Books: “The World and All It Holds,” by Aleksander Hemon
Theater: “The Harder They Come” @ the Public
Graphic Novel: “Shubeik Lubeik” by Deena Mohamed
Theater: “Black Odyssey” at CSC
Books: “Tough Guy,” a biography of Norman Mailer, by Richard Bradford
Books: “Nick” by Michael Harris Smith
Theater: “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” by Lorraine Hansberry
Theater: “Letters from Max” by Sarah Ruhl @ Signature
Books: “Palace Walk” by Naguib Mahfouz
Dance: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago @ the Joyce
Theater: “Elyria” at Atlantic Theater Company
Theater: “The Seagull/Woodstock, NY” starring Parker Posey @ New Group
Theater: “A Bright New Boise” by Samuel D. Hunter @ Signature
Netflix: “Fauda” Season 4, Israeli TV show starring Lior Raz
Theater: “Superhero” with Bryce Pinkham @ 2st (2018)
Dance: “Cao Sem Plumas” at the Joyce (2019)
Theater: “Choir Boy” with Jeremy Pope
Theater: “Rasheed’s Speaking” @ New Group (2017)
Books: “Working” by Robert Caro (from 2021)
Film: “Two Days, One Night” starring Marian Cotillard
Theater: “Zoo Story” at Signature
Theater: “Eddie and Dave”’at Atlantic Theater Company
Books: “ West Side Story: the Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic” by Richard Barrios
Theater: “Merrily We Roll Along” (2019 production)
Theater: “Cornelia Street” starring Norbert Leo Butz
Books: “Eat a Peach” by David Chang (2021)
Film: “Top Gun: Maverick” with Tom Cruise (2022)
Books: “The New Life” by Tom Crewe
Theater: “& Juliet” at the Sondheim Theater
Books: “Less is Lost” by Andrew Sean Greer
Theater: “Pictures from Home” starring Nathan Lane @ Studio 54
Theater: “The Collaboration” with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope
HBO Max: “The Menu” starring Ralph Fiennes
Netflix: “Heartstoppers” Season 1 (2022)
Dance: “Romeo and Juliet” presented by the Hong Kong Ballet
Film: “The Conformist” (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Books: “Either/Or” by Elif Batuman
Netflix: “Glass Onion” starring Daniel Craig
Hulu: “Welcome to Chippendales”
Film: “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” at Film Forum