Regina Weinreich

Perusing a photo of his father in a boat on his honeymoon, smile wide and happy, in his documentary Deconstructing Dad, noted film editor and director Stan Warnow says ruefully, I never saw him this way. Filling in the Freudian gap might be reason enough to make this film, but...

"Hey Meg-a-la," shouted Rosie O'Donnell, trying to get Meg Ryan's attention at, yikes, Alice Tully Hall, just after the memorial tribute to writer, director Nora Ephron. Gathering in the lobby for pink champagne, the crowd looked like a who's who of film, theater, and media: Bette Midler, Charlie Rose, Matthew...

Director Benoit Jacquot's take on the last days of Marie Antoinette, Farewell, My Queen, is based on a book by Chantal Thomas, which looks at history from the perspective of a servant with a talent for embroidery. I don't know another filmmaker who studies the behavior of women with quite...

Twenty years after it first played to sold out audiences, Joe Pintauro's Men's Lives, based upon Peter Matthiessen's 1986 history of the Baymen on the East End of Long Island, seems as weather beaten and vital as ever in its current revival at Bay Street Theater. Drew Boyce's set features...

Just days after he married Hilaria Thomas, when he could have been in some exotic place on honeymoon, Alec Baldwin, taking his Hamptons International Film Festival duties very seriously, took the stage at East Hampton's Guild Hall, to introduce a documentary that's been garnering buzz at film festivals. A hit...

In a bygone era, drug-addled users could score in Union Square; now the health-minded can cop organic kale and cucumbers in a caravan of farm stands. Deftly bringing both the edgy past and cleaned-up present together with humor and heart, Nancy Savoca's new movie, Union Square, features a stunning performance...

For fans of romantic comedy, a play that ends with three weddings is the ultimate fantasy. As You Like It, this summer's first Shakespeare in the Park offering in its 50th year, is a celebration from the first banjo strums to the dancing at end with Lily Rabe (Rosalind/ Ganymede),...

Everyone (some real life family and old flames famously excluded) loves Woody Allen.

At a press conference at the Regency for his new film To Rome With Love on Tuesday, reporters took that as a given, asking his actors how they get past their own adoration for the auteur. A...

Barricades lined the streets in the West Village. President Obama was in town, dining at Sarah Jessica Parker's for a fundraiser in his honor. Aretha Franklin was there leaving in a flash for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, according to my pal Roger Friedman. But this was also the opening...

Because the 2010 exhibition of her work at MoMA was titled "The Artist is Present," Marina Abramović knew what to do. At a recent screening of a documentary based on this show, appropriately at MoMA, she explained she could do nothing but be present; that is, occupy a chair facing...

Everything in its time! The Tonys, the Oscars for Broadway theater, marks the end of an awards season as rigorous and varied as that for film, although one noteworthy difference is the absence of red carpet couture commentary; somebody should have been reporting on presenter Jessica Chastain's glittery, lacy number....

When people say that at 74 a person is over the hill, Jane Fonda says she is looking at the next hill on the horizon. With an upcoming HBO series, her recent book Prime Time, several new movies including one in French and Bruce Beresford's Peace, Love and Misunderstanding opening...

"I just celebrated 20 years of my accident," announced Auti Angel at a luncheon at Robert for the reality show Push Girls. Premiering on the Sundance Channel, the show features four feisty and beautiful wheelchair-bound stars: three friends -- Tiphany Adams and Angela Rockwood as well as Auti -- who...

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong. I have been following...

Of the brownstone at 7 Middagh Street, the basis of a new musical, February House at the Public Theater, the composer/ writer Paul Bowles used to say he did not want to live in a place with another composer. He was referring to Lincoln Kirstein. When he heard the rent...

Jewish jokes are so plentiful online; who hasn't been blessed with multiple emails forwarded from friends, or visited the YouTube videos of real-life old Jews telling jokes? Now a fast-paced revue at the Westside Theater -- where the beloved Love, Loss, and What I Wore held sway for many seasons...

On a 42nd Street block that used to house peep shows, The Duke Theater is a resonant location for a play called Cock. For this four-actor drama, The Duke is entirely reconfigured as an arena where onlookers are up close and personal as if watching a cockfight, taking bets. Four...

The U2 frontman joined the festivities somewhere in the middle of the Jazz Foundation of America's annual benefit singing "Angel in Harlem," assuredly an anthem to the Apollo theater. In rock style, the orchestra audience rushed the stage, iPhones snapping. Bono was simply one of many headliners in "A Great...

The new movie Hysteria answers an age old question, what do women want most? Based on a historic moment in the 1880's when a particular contraption for the alleviation of women's non specific ailments (unhappiness, indigestion, the desire for equality, the right to vote, freedom) was invented, this romantic comedy...

Introducing Hillary Clinton to 2,300 women -- and a sprinkling of men -- gathered in a ballroom at the Marriot Marquis for breakfast celebrating the New York Women's Foundation's 25th year this morning, Abigail Disney recounted where this filmmaker and activist was in her own life at each stage of...