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proudly shows the camera what he The Seventh Fire calls his “criminal organization” chest Not rated tattoo, and the diluted dope he cooks Running time: 1 hour 18 minutes up. Mr. Brown cuts the hair of his The only genuine moments of peace quasi-protégé Kevin, a teenager con- in the searing documentary “The tent to do small-time drug dealing Seventh Fire” come at the very begin- until he can graduate to something ning: lyrical shots of headlights mov- bigger — Kevin has a “Scarface” post- ing forward on a long stretch of road at er hanging in his house. He’s a little daybreak. After that, the director, Jack unsure just how much he wants a Pettibone Riccobono, practically grabs criminal life, though, and he’s es- viewers by the backs of their necks tranged from his father, a recovering and shows them the bleak lives of two alcoholic who catches leeches to sell residents of Pine Point, an Ojibwe for bait. village in northern Minnesota on the When Mr. Brown learns he has to White Earth Indian Reservation. return to prison, he organizes a Rob Brown, a onetime gang leader, farewell blowout. In one scene, Kevin is shown dealing, and using, with white teenagers from a neighboring town. The movie provides startling, detailed looks at the wrecks drug addicts become. Mr. Brown’s binge during the party begins with wide- eyed excitement, but sputters to a close when he’s a heavy-lidded, barely coherent mess. In the end, he has no clue how to clean up his psychic and physical wreckage. The betrayal of Native Americans THE FILM COLLABORATIVE FILM MOVEMENT by larger forces looms over this pow- Hooligan Sparrow Ye Haiyan, with a protest sign related to the sexual abuse of girls, in this documentary opening on Friday. Rob Brown, left, and his quasi- erful movie without ever being explic- protégé, Kevin, in the documentary itly discussed. “The Seventh Fire.” GLENN KENNY Risking All to Stand Up to the State In 2014, for a show of his work at the generated global headlines in 2010 unease and suggestive violence, does- Fight Valley Brooklyn Museum, the Chinese artist when, in agitating for the rights of n’t draw you in; it yanks you, a canny and refusenik Ai Weiwei created an female prostitutes, she offered to turn strategy that instantly puts the viewer Not rated installation called “Ye Haiyan’s Be- tricks without charge. on Ms. Wang’s side and turns the Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes longings.” It looked simple enough, You can learn more about Ms. Ye’s presumably (or at least relatively) Take that, Ronda Rousey. The for- starting with the four past from a Google search than you disinterested audience into a kind of mer mixed martial arts champion — MANOHLA walls, which had been can from “Hooligan Sparrow,” which collaborator. now a budding movie star with turns DARGIS covered with rows of focuses on a short period in her life. “Hooligan Sparrow,” which Ms. in “Entourage,” “The Expendables 3” photographs depicting That isn’t actually a criticism, though Wang also shot and skillfully edited, and “Furious 7” — is challenged by her quotidian objects like it does suggest some of this movie’s has the pulse of a mainstream thriller BREAKING GLASS PICTURES FILM former Ultimate Fighting Champi- REVIEW socks, undies, a bicycle limitations. Documentaries that com- but without the pacifying polish and onship peers in Rob Hawk’s “Fight Miesha Tate portrays the owner of a and appliances. The or- press vast swaths of history into a few tidiness. (One of its executive Valley.” Don’t get me wrong; she’s not gym in this Rob Hawk action film. derliness of the wall display was in hours can be frustratingly shallow, of producers, Alison Klayman, directed in the movie. But a few of her erstwhile stark contrast with the artful jumble course, and also say less than those “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.”) It drops rivals take a swing at the big screen scattered on the floor, which included that bore into one subject, place or into Ms. Ye’s life in 2013, around the (and Ms. Rousey’s Hollywood status) ground ring the Yards, she dies, and a few suitcases, various taped card- moment in time. “Hooligan Sparrow” time she and a small group of other, in this punch-drunk action drama, her distant, delicate sister, Windsor board boxes and assorted other for- largely dispenses with the socio-his- mostly female activists were pro- starring Miesha Tate (the former (Susie Celek), investigates. Windsor lorn items — a table fan, a pillow, a torical picture. Instead it employs the testing the light sentence given to U.F.C. women’s bantamweight cham- joins the Knock-Around Girls, who fridge, a motorbike. familiar storytelling strategy of the some convicted male sex offenders for pion); the featherweight Cris Cyborg include Jamie (a mischievous Cabrina The admirably gutsy documentary charismatic personality whose strug- (Cristiane Venancio, but here billed Collesides) and Yanni (Kari J. Kra- “Hooligan Sparrow” tells the story of gles are meant to be representative of abusing six schoolgirls. It’s a right- under her nom de octagon); and Holly mer), and learns the “No. 1 rule of the Ye Haiyan, the Chinese woman who the greater political stakes. eous, dangerous protest that becomes Holm, who bested Ms. Rousey in a Knock-Around Girls: Make sure the owned that pillow. Born in 1975, at the One of the strengths of “Hooligan an emblem of conscience. In time, it championship bout in 2015. other one is safe.” tail end of the Cultural Revolution, Ms. Sparrow” is that it makes those stakes also leads to unanswered questions There are non-U.F.C. actresses, too, Cue the inevitable training mon- Ye became an activist after working in real, visceral and urgent, partly by and some startling, hair-raising mo- including Chelsea Durkalec and Erin tages, as Windsor acquires callused a karaoke bar and a massage parlor. laying bare just how difficult it can be ments, as well as the indelible sight of O’Brien, playing Tory and Duke, lovers knuckles under the tutelage of Jabs By 2001 she was writing about her to make a documentary like this. It’s Ms. Ye on a dusty road with her who are part of a Camden, N.J., street- (Ms. Tate, the picture’s true star), the experiences in a blog, using the han- the debut feature of Nanfu Wang, who daughter, her passion and the belong- fighting crew, the Knock-Around Girls. owner of a gym. Disappointing plot dle Hooligan Sparrow. According to a inserts herself into the fray early in a ings that Ai Weiwei made famous. Among their tormentors is a female twists ensue in a climactic brawl paper by an academic named Jona- short, tense scene in which — while gang led by the intimidating, um, Ms. starved for snappier choreography and than Benney and published in The facing the camera alone in a room — “Hooligan Sparrow” is not rated. It Cyborg. When Tory, striving to raise editing. Ms. Tate, who has a sequel International Journal of China Studies, she nervously explains that the police is in English and Mandarin, with Eng- money to leave Camden, accepts a brewing, is clearly the winner. Ms. Ye said she “encountered femi- are about to question her about her lish subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 23 challenge at the notorious under- ANDY WEBSTER nism” for the first time in 2005. She recent activities. The scene, with its minutes.

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While their show “French and Saun- MANOHLA ordinary latecomers ders.” (Ms. Saunders and Ms. might try a discreet French both worked as writers DARGIS entrance, bobbing on the “Absolutely Fabulous” and weaving as they series.) Set in the wake of Mar- FILM REVIEW scamper for seats, garet Thatcher, “Ab Fab” — as the constitutionally fans fondly call it — pivots on unmindful Eddy and Patsy Eddy, a child of the 1960s turned stumble onto the catwalk, creat- hardly working ’90s business- ing a distraction that forces woman. Crucially, her time and everyone’s attention on them. energy are largely fixed on her- What seems like mere table- self and other women, including setting — Eddy galumphing her daughter, Saffron, or Saffy among the gazelles — is a sly (Julia Sawalha), a frump in Dr. declaration of intent in a happily Huxtable sweaters and sensible self-conscious feature-length shoes, who plays the superego goof. scold to her mother’s irrepress- As it announces, “Absolutely ible id. Fabulous: The Movie” is the Nothing if not period appropri- big-screen iteration of the BBC ate, at least in its early years, the series created by Ms. Saunders show positioned Eddy and Patsy that enjoyed an erratic run from as avatars of a hilariously clue- 1992 to 2012. It’s basically more less, grasping materialism, while DAVID APPLEBY/FOX SEARCHLIGHT of the amusing, often very funny, riffing on the likes of spir- Joanna Lumley, left, and Jennifer Saunders in this film version of the beloved BBC series, opening Friday. occasionally wincing raucous itualism, family life and pop Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie same, with Eddy and Patsy as culture. Complexly feminist, it the brand-wearing and hard- reserved some of its most comi- mom (June Whitfield). remains intact in the movie, as than the series at its barbed Stella McCartney and Kate partying — and hard-smoking, cally scabrous bits for the pre- Crucial to the movie and se- does the show’s principal cast, best, partly because the celebri- Moss. These A-listers function as sometimes-snorting — irresist- posterous contradictions and ries both is that they lampoon its tossed-together feel, indiffer- ty culture that once provided human versions of Eddy and ible fools whose adventures are hurdles facing women, as in the Eddy and Patsy even as they go ent visuals and gaudy fashion. such rich material has become Patsy’s costly look-at-me acces- as female-specific as Lucy and episode “Fat,” in which Eddy after the world that made them, Except that now the sideshow just another ratings opportunity sories, which I guess makes Jon Ethel’s were decades earlier. 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(notably from Kathy Burke, an panying parent or adult compan- ders adorns with bright bits, person just screaming to get but their unbreakable bond Serviceably, at times awk- “Ab Fab” veteran) and manage ion). Drinking, drugging, shop- much like a string of Christmas out,” Eddy insists at one point. means that at least they’re clue- wardly, directed by Mandie to rise above the crowd of fa- ping. Running time: 1 hour 26 lights. “Just the one, dear?” asks her less together. Their friendship Fletcher, the movie skews softer mous faces, which here includes minutes.

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An Ameri- Mr. Corbet also seems to have TERRENCE MALICK NATALIE PORTMAN CHRIS EYRE ideas swirling in “The Childhood evasion, given how history looms BAM Rose Cinemas of a Leader,” it wouldn’t be a can actor whose credits include spent some time perusing the here, but it scarcely matters. surprise if its young director, the television show “24,” Mr. work of the Russian director CAFÉ SOCIETY Brady Corbet, had dipped into Corbet has in recent years ap- Alexander Sokurov, specifically “The Childhood of a Leader” is A fi lm by JACK PETTIBONE RICCOBONO CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Reich’s book while conceiving peared in a number of high- his tetralogy of power, which not rated and runs 1 hour 56 “★★★★” “EPIC” the movie, which takes its title profile European art movies. He concluded with an adaptation of minutes. –Time Out –Th e Village Voice “DEEPLY TEXTURED” THROUGH AUG 3 –Richard Brody, Th e New Yorker FOUR MORE YEARS: Failing Hurts Worse When Others Succeed EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT STARTS TODAY! 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Doubts THE MOVIE 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:30*, Birbiglia and Tami Sagher in the comedy, which opens on Friday. whose suave, imperious head 10:00, 11:00AM, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 5:30*, 6:15*, 7:00*, 8:00*, 8:45**, 9:30*, about their chosen profession writer, Timothy (Seth Barrish), is 5:50, 7:15, 8:10, 9:45, 10:35PM, 12:00AM 10:30, 11:15, 11:55 have begun to nag. *Q&As w/ Mike Birbiglia, Ira Glass allergic to cast members promot- CAFÉ SOCIETY **Q&As w/ Mike Birbiglia, Ira Glass & As the movie opens, Commune another for comfort and moral mune have one another. Keegan-Michael Key ing their friends. 10:00, 10:10, 11:00AM, 12:05, 12:30, 1:20, members learn they must find a support. But with their illusion of Improv, as depicted in the 2:20, 2:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:00, 7:00, 7:40, 8:20, 9:20, CAPTAIN FANTASTIC • “Don’t Think Twice,” which has 10:00, 10:40, 11:40PM 12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 new performance space because togetherness and equality under movie, is not mainstream enter- TICKLED the building has been sold. And siege, their unity begins to crum- tainment like stand-up comedy a warm heart, could have been a HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE 12:10, 2:25, 4:35, 7:15, 9:35 much nastier movie. Yet its dis- 10:00AM, 12:30, 5:30, 8:00PM when one member leaves the ble. but more an outlier of theater. MAGGIE’S PLAN •n nest and is hired by “Weekend Mr. Birbiglia made his name The verbal acrobatics in which appointed show-business hope- THE LOBSTER 12:15pm fuls dreading their expiration 3:00, 5:10, 10:30PM FANTASTIC PLANET Live,” a “Saturday Night Live”- with the 2012 comedy “Sleepwalk performers catch one another in at Midnight (Subtitled) like program that confers instant With Me,” an adaptation of his midflight tend to be more clever dates make no bones about their celebrity, their suppressed com- one-man stage show about the than screamingly funny. insecurities. When Ben Stiller petitiveness, envy and anxiety rigors of touring on the stand-up “Don’t Think Twice” skillfully attends a performance and goes 22 E. 12th St. out with them afterward, their 924-3363 about the future surfaces. comedy circuit. The film was an compresses character sketches 1:05, 3:05, As one person puts it, “Your acutely observed insider’s view of all six members, with some fawning desperation isn’t pretty 5:05, 7:05, HOOLIGAN SPARROW 9:05 20s are all about hope, and your of a profession that requires a receiving more attention than to watch. 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 30s are all about how dumb it is strong constitution to withstand others. At the heart of the group FIGHT VALLEY 9:10 to hope.” its humiliations and grubbiness, are Jack (Keegan-Michael Key of “Don’t Think Twice” is rated R 1:15, 3:40, In early scenes of rehearsals and to maintain a modicum of “Key & Peele”), a cocky show-off (under 17 requires accompanying THE KIND WORDS 6:15, 8:40 and performances, members of optimism. It revealed stand-up who does a nifty impression of parent or adult guardian) for 11:00PM the Commune exude the us- as a Darwinian jungle in which Barack Obama, and his live-in some drug use and strong lan- QUITTERS ONLY Advance tickets at cinemavillage.com against-the-world solidarity of a only the toughest survive. At girlfriend, Samantha (Gillian guage. Running time: 1 hour 32 close-knit family clinging to one least the members of the Com- Jacobs), who is wary of celebrity. minutes. THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C9 A Return to Hitsville: Easy Nostalgia, but With a Jolt of Racial Relevance

“What’s going on?” When Jarran Muse, playing Motown Marvin Gaye, sings those words Book by Berry Gordy, based on his book, and a verse or two of the song “To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the they come from in “Motown: Memories of Motown”; music and lyrics from the Motown catalog; directed by The Musical,” Charles Randolph-Wright; choreography CHARLES which has opened by Patricia Wilcox and Warren Adams; at the Ne- music supervision and arrangements by ISHERWOOD derlander Theater Ethan Popp; sets by David Korins; in a limited return costumes by Esosa; lighting by Natasha THEATER Katz; sound by Peter Hylenski; projec- REVIEW engagement, they tions by Daniel Brodie; hair and wig carry an unset- design by Charles G. LaPointe; associate tling relevance they did not have director, Schele Williams; assistant when the show originally opened choreographer, Brian H. Brooks; produc- tion stage manager, Anna R. Kaltenbach; more than three years ago. technical supervisor, David Benken; A celebratory musical paying general manager, Bespoke Theatricals; tribute to the black music explo- executive producers, Nina Lannan and sion led by Berry Gordy’s De- Nansci Neiman-Legette; music coordina- troit label, “Motown” devotes tor, Michael Keller; orchestrations by Mr. Popp and Bryan Crook; music director/ only a few scenes to the civil conductor, Darryl Archibald; dance rights movement and the tumult music arrangements by Zane Mark; of the late 1960s. But they give it additional arrangements by Mr. Crook; a new and unusual relevance script consultants, David Goldsmith and Dick Scanlan; creative consultant, after more than a year of trou- Christie Burton. Presented by Kevin bled race relations, with many McCollum, Doug Morris and Mr. Gordy. commentators drawing compar- Through Nov. 13 at Nederlander Theater, isons (and others making dis- 208 West 41st Street, Manhattan; 877-250- tinctions) between now and 2929, motownthemusical.com. Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes. then. By no means has “Motown” WITH: Chester Gregory, Allison been transformed into a thought- Semmes, Jesse Nager, Jarran Muse, J.J. ful or probing musical. Under Batteast, Leon Outlaw Jr., Nik Alexander, Charles Randolph-Wright’s Erick Buckley, Chante Carmel, Chadaé, Lynorris Evans, Robert Hartwell, Trisha direction, it remains what it was: Jeffrey, Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Loren Lott, a sparkling and enjoyable, if Jarvis B. Manning Jr., Krisha Marcano, Marq Moss, Rashad Naylor, Ramone Owens, Olivia Puckett, Jamison Scott, Joey Stone, Doug Storm, Martina Sykes, Subtle drama? Julius Thomas III and Nik Walker. Complex characters? these junior roles.) Oh, just sigh and “Motown” has so much story to tell — Mr. Gordy clearly feels groove to the songs. a highlights reel of his career could go on forever — that there’s no time for dramatic lumpy, journey through 25 years PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES subtlety or complexity of charac- of Motown history. It’s just that ter. But who’s coming to see the climax of the first act, and Jarran Muse, above, in ry. And, at the performance I “Motown” for anything other the opening minutes of the sec- “Motown: The Musical,” at the saw, Ms. Semmes revealed a than the fabulous songbook? ond, give the show a jolt of emo- Nederlander Theater. Left, nimbly funny way with audience (The more than 55 titles is tional currency that contrasts Chester Gregory and Allison interaction during the “Reach surely a record for a jukebox Out and Touch” number. musical.) strikingly with its nostalgic Semmes in the show. spirit. Jesse Nager’s honeyed tenor True, some of your favorites may be shortchanged, or used The central roles have been is a perfect match for Smokey somewhat awkwardly as “book” recast, with excellent singing As Diana Ross, Gordy’s love Robinson, one of Gordy’s strong- songs. But there’s so much mu- actors who are mostly equal to interest and one of his biggest est allies and early stars. Mr. sic pouring from the stage that the fine originals. As Gordy, discoveries, Allison Semmes, Muse finds the fiery rebellious who understudied the role in the streak that emerges as Gaye Motown fans probably won’t Chester Gregory could use more complain when the needle skips intensity to illuminate the relent- show’s first go-round (and finds his voice and sometimes played the famously ousted finds himself in conflict with his to the next track before they less — some would say ruthless have had a chance to savor the Supreme, Florence Ballard), boss. And as the young versions — drive of the man who helped last fully. usher in a pop-music revolution. exudes a mixture of calculating of Gordy, Little Stevie Wonder But he brings some nice nuances ambition and youthful naïveté, and, most spectacularly, Michael to the role, accentuating Gordy’s coquettishly keeping an eye on Jackson during the Jackson 5 brooding grievance as the stars the main chance even as a teen- years, Leon Outlaw Jr. proves a Other points of view he created begin to desert him. ager. Her singing evokes the ferocious little dynamo, tearing on the Op-Ed page (Mr. Gordy himself wrote the cotton candy purr of Ms. Ross’s, up the house with his exuber- seven days a week. musical’s book.) without being mere vocal mimic- ance. (J. J. Batteast alternates in The New York Times

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Future, the infectious rapper from Atlanta, opened for Drake in Austin. Future, who brought a different energy to the stage, played “March Madness” near the end of his hourlong set. Drake the Hybrid Opens Tour Rapping, Singing and Sneering Whatever the case, Drake is Atlanta strip-club anthems, and These were, more often than From Weekend Page 1 becoming a pop star with rap- built a worldview out of a nar- not, the show’s softer moments, star of Nigeria’s Afrobeats scene, star anxieties, another novel cotic haze. He isn’t a particularly soothing hits like “Hotline Bling” and Kyla, a soul singer from the fusion. joyful rapper, but he’s infectious, and “Hold On, We’re Going world of UK funky. Accordingly, this show was and here he found a way to have Home,” or in his global-pop This sort of transnational pop bookended by tough talk, but fun, working the stage with mini-set near the end of the — American, Caribbean, African oscillated between that and boundless energy and, when show: “Controlla” and “One — is new turf for Drake, and smoother, more tender sections. surrounded by a troupe of four Dance,” along with his sinuous male dancers, busting out a few given that he’s one of pop mu- He put his most ferocious rap- Rihanna collaborations “Work” concise moves of his own as his sic’s great sponges, it’s proving ping into clusters — the tri- and “Too Good,” songs that paint to be fertile. The breezy and squad chanted “Go Future! Go Drake as an attentive lover umphant (“Headlines,” “Tro- Future!” accessible “Controlla,” the rising preoccupied with rhythm. Near the end of Future’s set, lite-dancehall hit from “Views,” That version of Drake is the he played “March Madness,” an is becoming as ubiquitous as most currently popular, and it ecstatic song that has a recur- “One Dance,” partly because of seemed logical that he would ring jolt of melancholy when he imitators. Soothing, but end the night there. But after laments “all these cops shoot- noting that he was running over This is where Drake the global ing” black men. As he performed pugnacious, too. time, and would have to pay pop titan and Drake the throne- it, video screens behind him extra to the venue to extend the defending rapper overlap. When showed scenes of tense policing show, he did just that, returning he performed “Summer Sixteen” and an image of a motorcycle at this concert, he changed one phies,” “0 to 100/The Catch Up”), jacket covered in what appeared to the aggressive and acidic tone lyric to adjust the song’s target the indignant (“Started From the to be a logo of the early-1980s that opened the night. After the slightly, rapping, “All you boys Bottom,” “9”), the jubilant (“The punk band Millions of Dead caress, this was the pummeling, doing fake ‘Controlla’ wanna be Motto,” “For Free”). Midway Cops. Drake at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Tex. a series of spiteful songs like me a little.” through his set, he was joined by Politics aren’t at the forefront “Back to Back,” “Energy” and Maybe Drake was referring to Future for a relatively subdued “Hype,” on which he rapped, “I of Drake’s or Future’s art, but Austin and, “I don’t wanna lose fertile garden. Throughout the Tory Lanez, one of those Toronto run of songs from their pumped- don’t know what else is left for Drake, too, made glancing refer- nobody in this building.” second half of the show, they upstarts, who recorded a worthy up album, including a woozy ence to recent incidents of vio- me/ After this no one a threat to It was a half-cooked gesture became part of the storytelling: remake. Maybe he meant Tyga, “Diamonds Dancing” and a lence. This month he wrote a me.” for someone who ordinarily has Sometimes they dropped at whom Drake has spanked in the surprisingly murky “Schol- moving public letter in response Are those the words of a defi- past, and whose new song “1 of 1” arships.” to the police killing of Alton a deft touch in making big random intervals and to differ- ant rapper fending off his rivals? is “Controlla” for dummies. Future also had his own hour- Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., but spaces feel small. 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The characters Still Boldly Going, never change, but the stakes can But Taking No Risks shift wildly. spirit to blockbuster imperatives. From Weekend Page 1 The Hollywood rule book stipu- Lin from a script by Simon Pegg lates that the climactic sequence the original Mr. Spock, who died and Doug Jung, the film answers should involve the noisy destruc- in 2015. the question “Beyond what?” tion of a lot of buildings and an On the surface of a distant with a diffident “Well, nothing, extended hand-to-hand fight planet, the crew encounters a really. Don’t worry!” It should between the good guy and the new nemesis and a new ally. The have been called “Star Trek main villain. The villain should big baddie is a murderous war- Within” in honor of its determi- be motivated by the usual villain- lord named Krall (Idris Elba, nation to color inside the lines, ous grudge. Millions of lives masked). The scrappy sidekick is obeying the ironclad conventions should be in danger, and the a stranded fighter named Jaylah of brand and genre. actual casualties should be nu- (Sofia Boutella, in zebra-stripe Which is not, in itself, a bad merous and filmed bloodlessly makeup). Things go more or less enough to preserve the PG-13 as you expect, with enough sur- thing. Not every wheel needs rating. prises and “reveals” to make you reinventing, and one of the abid- Up until the tedious and bom- mad at me if I say too much ing pleasures of “Star Trek,” in bastic finish, though, you can more. The crew hops into, and its old and newer iterations, lies have a pretty good time. In his out of, danger. Machinery fails in its balance of stubborn consis- work on the “Fast and Furious” and is repaired in the nick of tency and canny inventiveness. movies, Mr. Lin has shown a time. Highly complicated imagi- The characters never change, playful willingness to extend — nary science is explained with but the stakes can shift wildly and, if necessary, suspend — the PHOTOGRAPHS BY KIMBERLEY FRENCH/PARAMOUNT PICTURES breathless urgency. from one adventure to the next. laws of physics, and his visual Sometimes, I have to say, the Fans love “Star Trek” precisely brashness can be a refreshing Above, Chris Pine, left, and scientific breakthroughs feel a because of its episodic nature, antidote to Mr. Abrams’s fussy little too convenient. Jaylah has which allows for a certain Idris Elba in “Star Trek Be- tries to combine digital spectacle yond.” From far left, Anton some kind of technology that amount of variation in theme and with old-fashioned cinematic makes giant spaceships invisible, tone. Sometimes the future of the discipline. Yelchin and Mr. Pine, who has and another kind that shoots universe hangs in the balance. Most important, the gang’s all played Kirk since the big- fast-drying resin (or something). Sometimes Kirk and his crew here, and Mr. Lin proves once screen reboot in 2009. And there is some business at have to deal with local disputes again to be an adept ensemble the end on an enormous space and personnel issues. Or weird wrangler. Kirk grins and gri- station that I did not buy for a random stuff, like tribbles or maces his way through yet an- (John Cho), Chekov (Anton minute. The nerd in me wants a Joan Collins-related time travel. other existential career crisis Yelchin) and Scotty (Mr. Pegg) bit more rigor, a bit more plausi- Unfortunately, 21st-century (and also does some motorcycle provide technical support and bility underneath the exuberant big-budget action movies are stunt driving). Spock (Zachary comic relief, as necessary. Mr. fakery. Maybe in the next made according to a more rigid Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Sal- Yelchin’s sweet, mischievous episode. template, and “Beyond” follows dana) experience some love performance seems especially its immediate predecessors, trouble. Spock and Bones (Karl poignant after his death in an “Star Trek Beyond” is rated “Star Trek” and “Into Darkness” Urban) take their bickering- accident this year. The film is PG-13 (Parents strongly cau- (both directed by J. J. Abrams), astronaut vaudeville double act dedicated to his memory and to tioned). Nothing out of the ordi- in sacrificing some of the old on the road once again. Sulu the memory of Leonard Nimoy, nary. Running time: 2 hours. THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C11

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Selective listings by critics for The income inequality leaves the play New York Times of noteworthy with a sour aftertaste (1:30). Lyceum cultural events in the New York Theater, 149 West 45th Street, 212- metropolitan region this week. ★ 239-6200, fullycommittedbroadway denotes a highly recommended .com. (Isherwood) play, film, concert, dance perform- ★ ‘HAMILTON’ Yes, it really is that ance, comedy show or exhibition. good. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rap- driven portrait of the rise and fall of Alexander Hamilton, directed by Thomas Kail, makes us feel the unstoppable, urgent rhythm of a nation being born. A show that Theater changes the language of the Ameri- can musical, while offering resound- Approximate running times are in ing evidence that this beleaguered parentheses. Theaters are in Manhat- genre is not only surviving but tan unless otherwise noted. Full thriving (2:45). Richard Rodgers reviews of current productions, Theater, 226 West 46th Street, 877- additional listings, showtimes and 250-2929, hamiltonbroadway.com. ticket information are at nytimes (Brantley) .com/theater. A searchable, critical guide to theater is at nytimes.com ★ ‘THE HUMANS’ Stephen Karam’s /events. extraordinary comedy-drama — the finest of the season — has trans- ferred to Broadway with its prized virtues intact: a superlative cast; Previews and Openings direction from Joe Mantello that deftly navigates its shifts in tone; ‘AUSTIN’ (previews start on Satur- and, of course, Mr. Karam’s delicate day; opens on Aug. 4) Ed Setrakian but trenchant writing, depicting with directs Edla Cusick’s new play about great humor and empathy a middle- a recovering alcoholic (Thomas G. class family on the edge of the abyss Waites) who returns to Hell’s (1:35). Sunday is the play’s last day Kitchen to live with his brother in at the Helen Hayes Theater, 240 their childhood home. Lion Theater West 44th Street, 212-239-6200, at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd telecharge.com; performances will Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge.com. begin at the Gerald Shoenfeld The- (Laura Collins-Hughes) PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES ater on August 9. (Isherwood) ‘BUTLER’ (in previews; opens on ‘ON YOUR FEET!’ This latest jukebox Wednesday) Richard Strand’s Civil musical to plug in to Broadway’s War dramedy is named for the Union power strip tells the story of Gloria Army officer at its center, who must and Emilio Estefan’s rise to pop- decide what to do when an escaped chart success with crowd-pleasing slave arrives and asks for sanctuary: flair and plenty of itchy-feet-making Is Butler legally bound to return dance music. The vibrant Ana Vil- him? Produced by New Jersey lafañe and Josh Segarra star as the Repertory Company. 59E59 The- Cuban-born Estefans (2:20). Mar- aters, 59 East 59th Street, 212-279- quis Theater, 1535 Broadway, at 45th 4200, 59e59.org. (Collins-Hughes) Street, 877-250-2929, ‘CATS’ (in previews; opens on July onyourfeetmusical.com. (Isherwood) 31) Those Jellicle cats are purring, ‘PARAMOUR’ Cirque du Soleil’s pawing and prancing their way back latest attempt to storm New York to Broadway. Trevor Nunn directs a blends its familiar acrobats and revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s aerialists with a traditional Broad- feline fantasia, with choreography by way musical. The resulting show, Andy Blankenbuehler (“Hamilton”), unfortunately, is simultaneously based on the original Gillian Lynne frenetic and tedious (2:15). Lyric moves. Look for Leona Lewis as the Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, 877- grizzled Grizabella. Neil Simon 250-2929, paramouronbroadway.com. Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (Isherwood) 877-250-2929, catsthemusical.com. (Alexis Soloski) ★ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK: THE MUSICAL’ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s friskiest ‘A CLASS ACT’ (in previews; opens show in decades. Based on the 2003 on Monday) Christopher Scott di- movie, this story of a rock ’n’ roll rects this new drama by a lawyer, nerd (played by Alex Brightman, a Norman Shabel, about a class-action bouncing Super Ball of energy) who lawsuit against a chemical company teaches a class of regimented fifth that has poisoned the water with graders (a fabulous band of carcinogens. Produced by Eric preadolescents) to “stick it to the Krebs. New World Stages, 340 West man” is as amiably easygoing as it is 50th Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge loud (2:20). Winter Garden Theater, .com. (Collins-Hughes) 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, ‘A DAY BY THE SEA’ (previews start schoolofrockthemusical.com, 212-239- on Friday; opens on Aug. 25) When 6200. (Brantley) the British playwright N.C. Hunter ‘WAITRESS’ A thrilling performance had his only Broadway production in by Jessie Mueller (“Beautiful: The 1955 with this gentle comedy about a Carole King Musical”) brings some civil servant in middle age, Brooks much-needed depth of feeling to this Atkinson described its theme as “the slick but superficial musical based on adolescence of adults.” Austin the movie about a pie-baking diner Pendleton directs this revival for the worker in distress. The score, by the Mint Theater Company. Beckett pop singer-songwriter Sara Theater at Theater Row, 410 West Bareilles, is also beguiling, but Diane 42nd Street, 212-239-6200, Paulus’s production flattens the minttheater.org. (Collins-Hughes) ancillary characters into cartoons ‘ENGAGEMENTS’ (in previews; (2:35). Brooks Atkinson Theater, 256 opens on Aug. 4) Betrothals are West 47th Street, waitressthemusical running amok in Lucy Teitler’s dark .com, 877-250-2929. (Isherwood) New England comedy as a young woman aims to head off her best friend’s life-wrecking romantic Off Broadway mistake. Directed by Kimberly Senior for Second Stage Theater’s uptown series. McGinn/Cazale ‘CAGNEY’ When the hero of Robert Theater, 2162 Broadway, at West 76th Creighton, Christopher McGovern Street, 212-246-4422, 2st.com. and Peter Colley’s Hollywood musi- (Collins-Hughes) cal shows his stuff as a tap dancer, you may want to buy war bonds. ‘MEN ON BOATS’ (in previews; Otherwise, this show has a pleas- opens on Aug. 1) The river-riding antly cartoonish revue vibe (2:20). adventurers are men, but the actors Westside Theater Upstairs, 407 West playing them are not, in Jaclyn 43rd Street, 212-239-6200, Backhaus’s re-creation of a Grand cagneythemusical.com. Canyon expedition in 1869. Ben (Anita Gates) Brantley called it a “rollicking his- tory pageant” last summer when he ‘THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON’ reviewed Clubbed Thumb’s original Despite having been inspired by production, directed by Will Davis. real-life female serial killers, Sara Playwrights Horizons, Peter Jay Fellini’s “The Execution of Mrs. Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, Cotton” is less interested in explor- 212-279-4200, playwrightshorizons ing a 19th-century murderer’s psyche .org. (Collins-Hughes) than in introducing a parade of flamboyant characters. Despite ‘THE MUSHROOM CURE’ LAST CHANCE (in pre- welcome glimpses of grotesque views; opens on Sunday) Obsessive- humor, this overlong show is erratic compulsive disorder meets hallu- Δ ‘SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT FOLLOWED’ (closes on rather than rollicking. Ms. Fellini, cinogenic mushrooms in this comic who also plays the title character, solo show by Adam Strauss, about Sunday) George C. Wolfe’s reimagining of this all-black musical from 1921 often feels as if it had been and Samuel Adams, the director, also his attempt to rid himself of disabling written according to a checklist of essential historical and editorial points to be made. But the clunky retreat rather than fully commit to illness by ingesting psychedelic the story’s most deliciously ghoulish drugs. An earlier, overlong version at exposition doesn’t overwhelm the sweeping grace of its vintage musical numbers, vibrantly choreographed side: They are content with “petit” the 2014 New York International by Savion Glover, or Audra McDonald’s robust, witty turn as a Jazz Age chanteuse (2:40). (From top, Ms. rather than Grand Guignol (2:30). Fringe Festival was eccentric, awk- IRT Theater, 154 Christopher Street, ward and funny. Cherry Lane The- McDonald, center; Curtis Holland, center; and, from left, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Joshua Henry, Brandon spitnvigor.com. ater’s Studio Theater, 38 Commerce Victor Dixon and Billy Porter.) Music Box Theater, 239 West 45th Street, Manhattan, 212-239-6200, (Elisabeth Vincentelli) Street, 866-811-4111, cherrylanetheatre .org. (Collins-Hughes) shufflealongbroadway.com. (Ben Brantley) ‘GOOD’ AND ‘NO END OF BLAME’ Jim Petosa directs C.P. Taylor’s ‘PARADISO: CHAPTER 1’ (in pre- “Good,” a Nazi drama about regular views; opens on Sunday) Ten people ★ ‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ people’s critical role in aiding the rise at a time have 60 minutes to find An Abbey Theater production, di- anniversary play directed by Maria humanity, Sean Hayes, of “Will and This of evil. It’s a stealthily constructed their way out of the director Michael rected by Jimmy Fay, making its Mileaf in Series A, alongside Cusi Grace” fame, brings his appealingly timely new production of the much- play whose experimental use of Cram’s comedy “The Helpers,” Counts’s “Divine Comedy”-inspired American debut. Irish Repertory perky charm to David Javerbaum’s loved and much-revived 1964 musical music — as something that lives in directed by Jessi D. Hill, and A. Rey action thriller, an immersive-theater Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, 212- pricelessly funny fusillade of irrever- comedy honors the show’s ebullience the mind of its main character, a Pamatmat’s “This Is How It Ends,” a ence, originally seen last season. take on the escape-room trend, in 727-2737, irishrep.org. of spirit, as embodied in the Jewish German academic named John last-day-on-earth scenario directed Easily the funniest 90 minutes on a which finding clues and solving (Collins-Hughes) milkman Tevye (an assured and Halder (played with uncommon by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar. In Series New York stage right now (1:30). puzzles is the path to freedom. The affecting Danny Burstein), living in a lucidity by Michael Kaye) — doesn’t ‘STRANGE COUNTRY’ (in previews; B: Richard Alfredo’s noir-tinged Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, Koreatown location is revealed when Russian shtetl in the early 20th quite come off in this Potomac The- opens on Sunday) Directed by Jay “The Dark Clothes of Night,” di- 212-239-6200, anactofgod.com. tickets are booked. paradisoescape century. But as directed by Bartlett ater Project production. At the start Stull (“Utility”), Anne Adams’s rected by Alexander Dinelaris (a (Charles Isherwood) .com. (Collins-Hughes) Sher with his customary sensitivity of Act II of “No End of Blame: comedy-laced dysfunctional-family co-writer of the film “Birdman”); Mr. ‘QUIETLY’ (“The King and I,” “South Pacific”), Scenes of Overcoming,” Richard (previews start on drama unfolds as a 30-something Dinelaris’s Gabriel García Márquez- ★ ‘THE COLOR PURPLE’ A makeover this multihued staging moves to a Romagnoli’s production of Howard Wednesday; opens on July 28) In woman, her alcoholic brother and inspired “Queen,” directed by Victor made in heaven. The director John heart-stopping conclusion. It’s just a Barker’s defiant play comes sud- Owen McCafferty’s drama about the her self-destructive girlfriend share Slezak; and Idris Goodwin’s college- Doyle has slimmed down and toned musical, no? Yes, but what a musical denly to life, and mostly stays that legacy of the Troubles, two middle- dorm culture clash, “Black Flag,” up a show that seemed leaden and a Fourth of July weekend in Texas. (2:35)! Broadway Theater, 1681 way. Thank goodness, because Alex aged men who long ago were on directed by Logan Vaughn. 59E59 garish in its original Broadway Presented with New Light Theater Broadway, at 53rd Street, 212-239- Draper’s tender, supple lead per- opposite sides of a bombing meet at Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, 212- incarnation. This musical version of Project. Access Theater, 380 Broad- 6200, fiddlermusical.com. formance as a Hungarian artist a Belfast pub to talk about the past. 279-4200, 59e59.org. Alice Walker’s celebrated novel way, 630-632-1459, (Isherwood) railing against 20th-century oppres- (Collins-Hughes) about black women finding their strangecountry.brownpapertickets sion had been desperate for lively voices — which features Heather ‘FULLY COMMITTED’ Jesse Tyler .com. (Collins-Hughes) company in this Potomac Theater ONLINE: MORE LISTINGS Headley and, in a star-making per- Ferguson is a comic dynamo giving Project production (2:15 each). ‘SUMMER SHORTS’ (Series A in formance, Cynthia Erivo — is a vivid voice to more than 40 charac- Atlantic Stage 2, 330 West 16th Find these events and more previews; opens on July 31. Series B Broadway triumph of elemental, emotional ters in Becky Mode’s 1999 comedy Street, Chelsea, 866-811-4111, ptpnyc online in a sortable cultural previews start on July 30; opens on storytelling. (2:35). Bernard B. about a reservation-taker at a high- .org. (Collins-Hughes) calendar: Aug. 7) Neil LaBute, a mainstay of ★ ‘AN ACT OF GOD’ Playing the Jacobs Theater, 242 West 45th Street, end New York restaurant. But watch- nytimes.com/events this annual festival of one-acts, Almighty, descended to Earth to give colorpurple.com, 212-239-6200. ing this beleaguered and harassed ‘ILUMINATE’ More spectacle than returns with “After the Wedding,” an some acerbic advice to benighted (Ben Brantley) character’s travails in the age of story, “iLuminate” offers technology C12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 as its most dazzling star. Conceived, story’s white supremacy problems. produced and directed by Miral Samuel L. Jackson co-stars as a Kotb, a former software engineer, the crusader based on a real human show employs about a dozen tal- rights activist. (Dargis) ented, indefatigable young actor- ‘THE NEON DEMON’ dancers, encased in black suits wired (R, 1:57) A with digitally controlled lights. derivative, ostentatious quasi-horror Performing in total darkness to a movie about an aspiring fashion score combining hip-hop, jazz and model (Elle Fanning) and the ex- classical influences, they portray the treme resentment she engenders. tale of an artist whose magic paint- Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, brush is stolen for evil ends. Much of with his tongue hanging out of his the action is like a neon comic book, mouth, probably. (Glenn Kenny) but it does have its magic moments ★ ‘NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER (0:55). Theater 80 St. Marks, 80 St. VERSION OF YOU’ (No rating, 1:32) Mark’s Place, 866-811-4111; iluminate There are lessons about creativity .com. (Laurel Graeber) and longevity in this assured docu- ★ ‘OSLO’ J.T. Rogers’s absorbing mentary portrait by Heidi Ewing and historical drama takes you into the Rachel Grady of Mr. Lear, the influ- rooms where it happened — ential and socially minded 1970s specifically, the tension-filled cham- sitcom producer. In struggles be- bers in Norway where the Oslo tween Mr. Lear and Esther Rolle — Accords between Israel and the the “Good Times” star who took P.L.O. were forged in 1993. Directed umbrage at the show’s tag line, by Bartlett Sher, and featuring a “Dy-no-mite!” — we are reminded priceless Jennifer Ehle and Jefferson that effective topical entertainment Mays as backdoor peace negotiators, rarely comes without conflict. But this vivid, amazingly lucid produc- then, do you know how hard it is “to tion elicits the all-too-human factor make people laugh, to tackle big in international diplomacy (2:55). issues and get big ratings”? asks Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West Amy Poehler, a Lear admirer. “It’s so 65th Street, 212-239-6200, lct.org. hard that people don’t do it any- (Brantley) more.” (Andy Webster) ‘PHANTOM BOY’ ‘THE POWER OF PUNCTUATION’ A (PG, 1:24) This smart and surprisingly incisive attractively designed but wee-hours comedy by Natalie Mar- conceptually and emotionally pid- golin about the rules of friendship dling French animated film from the among three female college room- makers of “A Cat in Paris” concerns mates with a deliciously unforgiving the adventures of a sickly New York boy who can travel outside his physi- methodology for dealing with text JOSE SENA GOULAO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY messages from guys. Directed by cal body, the better to observe nefar- ious criminals and their evil schemes Casey Griffin, it’s a small, welcome PANORAMA MUSIC FESTIVAL oasis of entertainment in the middle (Friday through Sunday) Festivals like Panorama, a new rival to Governors against the city. (Kenny) of this fraught summer (1:05). Dav- Ball, appeal to those who wish to wring a binge-watching experience from live music. On Saturday, ticket ‘THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS’ (PG, enport Theater, 354 West 45th holders can flip between Sufjan Stevens at 8:25 p.m. and Kendrick Lamar, above, at 9:20, and then return 1:26) From the studio that unleashed Street; 929-260-0767; the Minions on the world, this talk- powerofpunctuationplay.com. the next day for the weekend’s big finale: LCD Soundsystem’s first advertised New York show since the ing-animal, celebrity-voiced ani- (Collins-Hughes) group’s Madison Square Garden send-off in 2011. Randalls Island Park, panorama.nyc. (Nick Murray) mated caper falls somewhere in the ‘PRIVACY’ Good tidings are spread middle of the spectrum between cat’s with great cheer in James Graham meow and utter dog. (Scott) and Josie Rourke’s perky investiga- ★ ‘SWISS ARMY MAN’ (R, 1:35) This ‘LAUGHTER IN THE PARK’ “From the ashes” of the popular little too strenuously on its own tion into the consequences of living (Sunday) stunningly original mix of the maca- sketch podcast “The Thrilling Ad- magic. Mark Rylance is very good as your life online. Starring a charm- This fun, free and family-friendly bre and the magical follows a lonely venture Hour,” this show features the melancholy, steadfast title char- ingly woebegone Daniel Radcliffe, outdoor comedy series brings stand- castaway (Paul Dano) and a flatulent Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, acter, whose relationship with a little this documentary comedy-fantasy Comedy up comedians to parks around New corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) into a Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Gagliardi girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) offers the 21st-century equivalent of York City. This week’s performers weird and wonderful story of efflu- and Craig Cackowski. At 7 and 9:30 propels an episodic, slightly tedious a magic show, in which audiences For news about comedy, including include Vanessa Hollingshead, vial enchantment that’s beholden to narrative. (A. O. Scott) leave on their smartphones and Big critical commentary: nytimes.com Saurin Choksin, Mark Demayo and p.m., the Bell House, 149 Seventh no rules but its own. Vlad Caaman, as well as the comedic Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 718-643- Brother looks into what passes for /arts. A searchable guide to these and ‘CAFÉ SOCIETY’ (PG-13, 1:36) Woody (Jeannette Catsoulis) debut of Councilwoman Helen Ro- 6510, thebellhouseny.com. their souls through surveillance other shows is at nytimes.com/events. Allen wanders back into the worlds senthal. At 2 p.m., Central Park, (Czajkowski) technology (2:30). Public Theater, of 1930s Hollywood and New York, ‘BEERPROV’ (Saturday) This long- Mineral Springs, Central Park West, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, ‘SASHEER ZAMATA OUTDOOR patching together an intermittently running Canadian show, hosted by at West 67th Street, 212-967-7555, publictheater.org. PARTY TIME’ (Friday) Sasheer amusing, visually elegant collage of Film Series (Brantley) Jim Robinson, mixes beer and com- laughterinthepark.org. (Czajkowski) petitive improv for a night of im- Zamata of “Saturday Night Live” familiar themes. Steve Carell is a ‘KEVIN MCDONALD’S KEVIN MC- GAUMONT: CINÉMA POUR TOUT LE ★ ‘SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS’ Bess promptu comedy in which perform- hosts a special outdoor edition of her powerful movie agent, Jesse Eisen- DONALD SHOW’ MONDE (Wednesday through Sept. Wohl’s quiet (literally) gem of a play, ers are eliminated over the course of (Thursday) Kevin regular stand-up show, featuring berg is his ambitious nephew from 7) The Gaumont studio is one of the about a half-dozen troubled souls on the evening. Performers include McDonald (“Kids in the Hall”) pre- performances by Jermaine Fowler, the Bronx, and Kristen Stewart is the great constants of French cinema, as a silent spiritual retreat, has been Devin James Heater, Jon Bander, sents this live variety show of sketch Yamaneika Saunders, Molly Austin young woman they both love. She’s dependable as the Eiffel Tower or restaged by the director Rachel Langston Belton, Rory Scholl, Tim comedy, music and “uninhibited and Brittany Campbell. At 8:30 p.m., too good for either one of them, and steak frites. Although this series Chavkin with all its wit, compassion Racine, Tracy Mull and Will Nunzi- tomfoolery,” which will be recorded Union Hall, 702 Union Street, at Fifth also for this tired movie. (Scott) for his monthly podcast. He will be Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718- celebrates the production company’s and sparkle fully intact. The sound of ata. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom, 431 ★ ‘CAPTAIN FANTASTIC’ (R, 1:59) joined by the musician Brad Roberts. 638-4400, unionhallny.com. 120-year history with some favorites silence onstage has rarely made West 16th Street, Chelsea, 212-414- Viggo Mortensen stars in this plea- At 8 p.m., Union Hall, 702 Union (Czajkowski) from the canon — including Max such sweet music (1:40). Pershing 5994, highlineballroom.com. surably freewheeling movie about a Street, at Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Ophüls’s “The Earrings of Madame Square Signature Center, 480 West (Elise Czajkowski) young family who leave the radical 42nd Street, 212-279-4200, Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, unionhallny de . . . ” (July 30 and Aug. 3) — it ★ EDDIE IZZARD isolation of their Oregon home and makes room for titles that are rela- smallmouthsounds.com. .com. (Czajkowski) go back on the grid. The writer- (Friday and tively disreputable or ripe for re- (Isherwood) ★ ‘PUNDERDOME’ director Matt Ross takes both his Saturday) A (Tuesday) The appraisal, such as Joseph Losey’s characters and his audience seri- globally popular comedian Jo Firestone and her Movies 1982 feature, “The Trout” (Aug. 11 and ously. (Manohla Dargis) comedian, Mr. father, Fred Firestone, host the 13), starring a young Isabelle Hup- Ratings and running times are in Off Off Broadway Izzard, left, uses annual New York Post edition of ★ ‘DON’T BLINK — ROBERT FRANK’ pert in a role originally intended for parentheses; foreign films have his razor-sharp their popular pun competition, in (No rating, 1:22) An affectionate Brigitte Bardot. It also showcases English subtitles. Full reviews of all ★ ‘THE GOLDEN BRIDE’ This long- wit and absurdist which contestants face off against portrait of this prolific photographer the company’s continuing impor- current releases: nytimes.com lost, newly reconstructed Yiddish style to address headline writers from The New York (“The Americans”) and filmmaker tance with newer films like Mélanie /movies. operetta is an immigrant fantasy that everything from Post. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom, (“Pull My Daisy”), still active and Laurent’s 2014 “Breathe” (Aug. 17 431 West 16th Street, Chelsea, 212-414- looks as fondly on Mother Russia as modern politics ‘THE BFG’ (PG, 1:57) Based on a irascible in his 90s. (Scott) and 21), a chronicle of a teenage 5994, highlineballroom.com. friendship that turns obsessive and on Uncle Sam. A farcical, tuneful 1923 to Greek mythology. At 8 p.m., Bea- lovely children’s book by Roald Dahl, ★ ‘EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK romance that’s part old-fashioned con Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th (Czajkowski) suffocating. Museum of Modern Art Steven Spielberg’s latest — the title ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS’ (R, musical comedy, part straight-up Street, 800-745-3000, beacontheatre ‘WORKJUICE THEATER PRESENTS: A Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, 11 stands for “big friendly giant” — is a 1:30) This documentary about the opera, it’s deeply satisfying in a THRILLING ADVENTURE’ West 53rd Street, 212-708-9400, .com. (Czajkowski) (Saturday) small, friendly movie that insists a iconoclastic rock musician and handsome, large-cast production by moma.org. (Ben Kenigsberg) composer Frank Zappa is rich in the National Yiddish Theater Folks- clips in which various interviewers MONDO MONDO (through July 31) biene (2:15). Museum of Jewish try in vain to fit him into boxes that This retrospective celebrates the Heritage, 36 Battery Place, Lower they learned about in journalism influence of the 1962 ethnographic Manhattan, 866-811-4111, nytf.org. school. It’s a delightful portrait of the documentary “Mondo Cane” (Friday (Collins-Hughes) man and his work that also serves as and next Saturday), called an anti- a snapshot of the cultural clashes of documentary or shockumentary by his times. (Neil Genzlinger) its makers. An opening disclaimer Long-Running Shows observes that it’s not the journalist’s ‘EQUALS’ (PG-13, 1:41) Kristen Stew- job to shy away from cruelty, and the art, the movies’ sullen “it girl” of the movie’s reason for being is to com- ‘AN AMERICAN IN PARIS’ The ballet moment, and Nicholas Hoult, a pile bizarre and horrifying sights luminary Christopher Wheeldon pretty boy made to look zombie-like from around the globe. In the film- makes a triumphant debut as a in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” play makers’ estimation, these include the Broadway director with this rhap- futuristic lovers in “Equals,” a dysto- mating rituals of various South sodic stage adaptation of a classic pian sci-fi snooze that suffers from Pacific islanders; birds and turtles musical with a heavenly Gershwin imagination deficit disorder. on the Marshall Islands whose life score. Pure joy (2:30). The Palace (Stephen Holden) cycles have been scrambled by Theater. 1564 Broadway, at 47th ★ ‘FINDING DORY’ (PG, 1:43) While radioactivity; sharks that have Street, ticketmaster.com, 877-250- grown accustomed to eating human 2929. it lacks the technical dazzle and emotional sweep of “Finding Nemo” flesh, thanks to an underwater ‘BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING and other Pixar masterpieces, this cemetery; and a New York City MUSICAL’ Becoming Carole King, sequel, with Ellen DeGeneres as the restaurant whose patrons, some song by song by song (2:25). voice of an absent-minded blue tang, coiffed like Jacqueline Kennedy, dine Stephen Sondheim Theater, 124 West is a warm, lively and inclusive piece on beetles, muskrats and worms. 43rd Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge of summer entertainment. Ed O’Neill Dog lovers in particular should be .com. almost runs away with it as a warned that they will never un-see grumpy, helpful seven-armed octo- what’s shown there, but the film ‘CHICAGO’ Jazz Age sex, murder and pus named Hank. (Scott) remains fascinating for its sensation- razzle-dazzle (2:25). Ambassador alism, its possible staging and the Theater, 219 West 49th Street, 212- ‘GHOSTBUSTERS’ (PG-13, 1:36) Kate sarcastic counterpoint of its voice- 239-6200, telecharge.com. McKinnon’s magnificent, eccentric over. The series also includes ‘THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE turn embodies Paul Feig’s reboot at “Mondo Topless” (Saturday and PHOTOGRAPHS FROM COLLECTION MUSÉE GAUMONT its best. Girls rule; women are DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME’ Navigating Thursday), Russ Meyer’s nudie- funny; get over it. With Leslie Jones, life’s maze with a socially challenged movie takeoff on the genre, and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. prodigy (2:25). Ethel Barrymore other films that grew out of the (Dargis) Theater, 243 West 47th Street, GAUMONT: CINÉMA POUR Mondo shock aesthetic, like “Canni- bal Holocaust” (Monday and July curiousonbroadway.com, 212-239- ★ ‘THE INFILTRATOR’ (R, 2:07) In TOUT LE MONDE 30). Anthology Film Archives, 32 6200. This some ways, Bryan Cranston’s char- Second Avenue, at Second Street, acter in “The Infiltrator” is an alter- ‘FUERZA BRUTA’ This shiny, sen- MoMA film series East Village, anthologyfilmarchives nate version of Walter White, the sory-overload spectacle is rife with .org, 212-505-5181. (Kenigsberg) celebrates the good-guy-turned-rotten he portrayed not especially impressive acrobatics, so magnetically in “Breaking Bad.” ‘POOTIE TANG’ throbbing music, many-colored lights extraordinary output of (Friday and Satur- This seedy, drug-soaked thriller is and high winds from machines set at day) When “Pootie Tang” opened in Gaumont Film based on a memoir by Robert Mazur storm speed (1:20). Daryl Roth 2001, the FX series “Louie” was still (Mr. Cranston), an undercover cop Theater, 20 Union Square East, at Company, a French nearly a decade away. Its creator, who in 1986 posed as a high-rolling 15th Street, 212-239-6200, Louis C.K., had directed only one studio, including, from money launderer in a sting operation fuerzabrutanyc.com. other feature, the barely released top, “The Earrings of against Pablo Escobar’s Colombian “Tomorrow Night.” And in what ‘JERSEY BOYS’ The biomusical that drug cartel. Unlike Walter, Robert is seemed like an unlikely confluence of walks like a man (2:30). August Madame de . . . ” (1953), a good guy who remains good when circumstances even then, he had the Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd starring Charles Boyer faced with temptation. (Holden) opportunity to extend a sketch he Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge.com. had worked on at “The Chris Rock ★ ‘THE INNOCENTS’ (PG-13, 1:55, in Show” into what, once the notori- ‘THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA’ and Danielle Derrieux; French and Polish) Much of Anne Who ously long end credits are taken into Fontaine’s blistering film, set within was that masked man anyway “The Trout” (1982), account, technically qualifies as a the walls of a Polish convent in (2:30)? Majestic Theater, 247 West feature film. It stars Lance Crouther starring a young December 1945, just after the end of 44th Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge as a combination street fighter and World War II, is based on true events .com. Isabelle Huppert; and recording artist who speaks in in- recalled by a French doctor (Lou de ‘SLEEP NO MORE’ scrutable catchphrases; the A movable, mur- Mélanie Laurent’s Laâge) stationed at a nearby Red cinematography is by Willy Kurant, a derous feast at Hotel Macbeth Cross hospital. Summoned to the “Breathe” (2014), with former collaborator of Orson Welles (2:00). The McKittrick Hotel, 530 convent, she discovers pregnant and Jean-Luc Godard. Although West 27th Street, Chelsea, 866-811- Joséphine Japy, far left, nuns who were serially raped by Louis C.K. has expressed displeasure 4111, sleepnomorenyc.com. Soviet soldiers and supervises the and Lou de Laâge. See with the cut that reached theaters, deliveries of their babies. Until its the shambles today endures as a the movie listings. too soft ending, “The Innocents” is a spectacle of go-for-broke random- hair-raising evocation of unspeak- Last Chance ness, with the potential to prompt able barbarity. (Holden) dissertations from pop-culture ★ ‘SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE ‘THE LEGEND OF TARZAN’ (PG-13, historians, cinema-studies majors MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSA- 1:49) The filmmakers behind this and perhaps linguistics Ph.D.s. At TION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT FOL- enjoyable romp have given Tarzan 12:15 a.m., Nitehawk Cinema, 136 LOWED’ (closes on Sunday) At the (Alexander Skarsgard) a thoughtful, Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Music Box Theater, see photo high- imperfect makeover, which must Brooklyn, 718-384-3980, light. have been tough, given the origin nitehawkcinema.com. (Kenigsberg) THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C13

ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES FINI DANCE FESTIVAL (Sunday) Get a taste of Italy this summer with a quick trip to the Upper West Side. This annual festival, in its third year, celebrates contemporary dance with Italian roots and features a robust lineup of international and local artists. Curated by the choreographer and producer Antonio Fini, the festival includes Aconcoli Dance Elena Albano from Milan and Acsi Ballet Naples, as well as Italian dancers from the Boston Ballet and Martha Graham Dance Company, among others. (Above, Aurélie Dupont, center, and members of the Martha Graham Dance Company in “Lament” in April.) At 7:30 p.m., Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, 212-787-1178, manhattanmovement.com. (Brian Schaefer)

finished recording: The twitchy suggests a sleek update to the Young Peplowski on clarinet and tenor and Adam Niewood on tenor saxo- BRIA SKONBERG (Monday) Ms. track bounces tightly wound strings Lion aesthetics of the 1980s, with saxophone, and Dick Hyman, Mr. phone. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Skonberg is a trumpeter and singer off a modulating bass line and keeps tight front-line maneuvers against a Charlap’s predecessor, joining him in Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Man- who does her part to bring bygone Pop building until its final seconds. Noth- strong but supple churn. Friday and a two-piano arrangement of “Rhap- hattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard jazz conventions into dialogue with a ing on the new album matches its Saturday at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., sody in Blue.” At 8 p.m., 92nd Street .com. (Chinen) modern pulse. She’ll preview ma- visceral intensity, but piano ballads Ginny’s Supper Club, 310 Lenox Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, 212-415- For full reviews of recent concerts: ★ WILLIAM PARKER (Tuesday and terial from her forthcoming self- like “True Love Waits” have never- Avenue, near 125th Street, Harlem, 5500, 92y.org. (Chinen) nytimes.com/music. A searchable Wednesday) At Jazz at Lincoln titled debut on Sony in this one- theless been live favorites for over a 212-421-3821, ginnyssupperclub.com. guide to these and other shows is at ★ JULIAN LAGE TRIO (Thursday and Center, see photo highlight. nighter, with Evan Arntzen on clari- nytimes.com/events. decade. At 7:30 p.m., Madison (Chinen) net and saxophone, Ehud Asherie on Square Garden, 866-858-0008, July 29) The guitarist Julian Lage is NICHOLAS PAYTON’S AFRO-CARIB- BRYAN FERRY DICK HYMAN/KEN PEPLOWSKI DUO one of jazz’s breezier virtuosos, piano, Eric Wheeler on bass and (Wednesday) When it thegarden.com. (Murray) BEAN MIXTAPE (Tuesday through (Friday and Saturday) Upholding a possessed of an unflappable techni- Jerome Jennings on drums. At 9:30 comes to Bryan Ferry albums, the CHRIS STAPLETON July 30) Mr. Payton, a trumpeter, (Saturday) Both reverence for jazz tradition and a cal facility and a seemingly bound- p.m., Joe’s Pub, at the Public Theater, best track is often the strangest. This keyboardist and (in some capacity) Mr. Stapleton and Brandy Clark, the knack for digital dexterity, Mr. Hy- 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, held true on “Avonmore” (2014), less curiosity. He demonstrates this vocalist with a taste for soulful which closed with a whispered cover evening’s opener, have been hailed man, a sagacious pianist, teams up gift on “Arclight,” a new album 212-967-7555, joespub.com. (Chinen) as country music saviors. That’s postbop and moody funk, recently of Robert Palmer’s “Johnny & Mary” with Mr. Peplowski, a perspicacious featuring this trio with Scott Colley ironic, because both have written unveiled this band in New Orleans, produced by the Norwegian nu-disco clarinetist and saxophonist — as on a on bass and Kenny Wollesen on songs for the same spray-tanned his hometown. This will be its New eccentric Todd Terje. This show recent album, “E Pluribus Duo,” drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz stars they’re supposed to be saving York premiere, with Mr. Payton should be oriented more toward Mr. recorded in this room. At 8 and 10 Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Man- us from. (Mr. Stapleton’s understated alongside the keyboardist Anthony Ferry’s Roxy Music hits, but left p.m., Jazz at Kitano, 66 Park Avenue, hattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard Southern rock even earned him the Wonsey, the bassist Vicente Archer, turns are still likely. Don’t be sur- at 38th Street, 212-885-7119, kitano .com. (Chinen) Classical title of male vocalist of the year at the drummer Joe Dyson and the prised if he includes a few covers .com. (Chinen) the genre’s biggest award show.) Ms. HAROLD MABERN TRIO percussionist Daniel Sadownick. At Full reviews of recent classical from his not-strange-enough tribute (Friday Clark, meanwhile, has received JAZZ IN JULY (Tuesday through 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West performances: nytimes.com/classical. album “Dylanesque.” At 8 p.m., through Sunday) The estimable fist-bumps from music critics for Thursday) This venerable summer 44th Street, Clinton, 212-581-3080, A searchable guide to these and other Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at hard-bop pianist Harold Mabern small-town sagas that are as rich as concert series, programmed by the birdlandjazz.com. (Chinen) performances is at nytimes.com 74th Street, 800-745-3000, devoted his most recent album, “Afro an entire Netflix mini-series. At 7 pianist Bill Charlap, takes a fondly /events. beacontheatre.com. (Nick Murray) Blue,” to the support and celebration ★ DIANNE REEVES (Wednesday) An p.m., Forest Hills Stadium, 1 Tennis nostalgic view of jazz and American of jazz singers. For this weekend run, authoritative and extravagantly GUNS N’ ROSES (Saturday and Place, at Burns Street, Forest Hills, songbook traditions. The second he pares down to a trio, with Nat gifted jazz singer, Ms. Reeves makes Sunday) Welcome to what’s left of Queens, foresthillsstadium.com. week of concerts begins on Tuesday Reeves on bass and Joe Farnsworth a virtue of her open-mindedness, Opera the jungle. For the first time in (Murray) with a stride showcase featuring Mr. on drums. At 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m., mingling standards with bossa nova almost two decades, Guns N’ Roses Charlap, Rossano Sportiello and Ted TY DOLLA SIGN (Monday) As a Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th staples and original pop-gospel are touring with their three most Rosenthal on pianos, and Anat Cohen BANG ON A CAN FESTIVAL (all producer, Ty Dolla Sign helped Street, 212-864-6662, smokejazz.com. exhortations. She performs this free famous members — the singer Axl on clarinet. Wednesday’s program week) As a composers collective, create a new sound for West Coast (Chinen) outdoor concert under the auspices Rose, the guitarist Slash and the honors the centennial of Billy Stray- Bang on a Can continues to be one of hip-hop: a rhythmic minimalism that of SummerStage, with an opening bassist Duff McKagan — all onstage, horn, with musicians including the PAT MARTINO TRIO PLUS HORNS the most fertile grounds for nurtur- updated the low-end funk of old D.J. set by Greg Caz, whose special- playing most of their pop-metal singer Carol Sloane, the trumpeter (through Sunday) The guitarist Pat ing composing talent and encourag- groups like Lakeside (which briefly ties are Brazilian samba and baile masterpiece “Appetite for Destruc- Jeremy Pelt and the alto saxophonist Martino came to prominence more ing a spirit of exploration. This included the artist’s father as a funk. At 7 p.m., Queensbridge Park, tion” and little of the hubristic “Chi- Steve Wilson. The final night, Thurs- than 40 years ago in the ranks of festival, in North Adams, Mass., member). That may be why, as a Vernon Boulevard and 41st Avenue, nese Democracy,” the record that led day, is “American Rhapsody: Gersh- Hammond B-3 organ trios, like the proves as much with highlights singer, he sounds so at home on Long Island City, Queens, to their breakup. With Lenny Krav- win, Arlen and the Blues,” with one he leads here — with an added including a tribute by the pianist these sinuous beats. He’ll headline a summerstage.org. (Chinen) itz. At 8:30 p.m., MetLife Stadium, 1 front line of Alex Norris on trumpet Vicky Chow to the collective’s hip-hop barbecue, organized by Mass Randy Sandke on trumpet, Ken MetLife Stadium Drive, East Ruther- founders, Michael Gordon, David Appeal, that will also feature Danny ford, N.J., metlifestadium.com. Lang and Julia Wolfe, that also Brown and Mannie Fresh. At 5 p.m., (Murray) includes new music by Christopher Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Cerrone. On Sunday, there will be a KYARY PAMYU PAMYU (Monday) If midpark at 70th Street, 212-360-2777, rare performance of John Cage’s Lady Gaga were styled by the Japa- summerstage.org. (Murray) strangely moving “Atlas Eclipticalis.” nese illustrator Takashi Murakami, Other events showcase premieres by she might resemble Ms. Pamyu some 30 up-and-coming composers Pamyu, a harajuku pop star whose and the music of Martin Bresnick, singles sound sweet even in an age who will celebrate his 70th birthday when bubble gum comes dentist- this year. Various times, at Mass approved. That may be why, in a Jazz MoCA, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, translated interview with MTV, the massmoca.org. Full reviews of recent jazz singer described her aesthetic as “a (Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim) cuteness that is a little bit traumatic.” performances: nytimes.com/jazz. A At 8 p.m., PlayStation Theater, 1515 searchable guide to these and other BARD SUMMERSCAPE (Friday and Broadway, at 44th Street, 888-929- shows is at nytimes.com/events. Sunday) This summer, the Bard Music Festival turns attention on 7849, playstationtheater.com. CYRO BAPTISTA (Friday through Puccini in two August weekends of (Murray) Sunday) Mr. Baptista, an irrepress- concerts, recitals and lectures. To ibly kinetic percussionist originally MACHEL MONTANO (Wednesday) help place the composer in the from São Paulo, Brazil, leads two No form of pop is more explicitly context of his life and times, the distinct projects this weekend, pre- utilitarian than soca, a chiefly festival is also offering a rare staged senting them one after the other Trinidadian genre designed to make production of “Iris,” the 1898 opera each night. His 7:30 p.m. sets will you, as a recent Machel Montano hit by Pietro Mascagni, best known for revisit “Vira Loucos,” a 1997 album has it, “Shake Yuh Bum.” And though his one-act melodrama “Cavalleria on which he interprets the music of the message remains the same, the Rusticana,” a sensation at its pre- Heitor Villa-Lobos. (That title, in musical packaging changes with the miere. James Darrah directs; Leon addition to playing on the com- seasons. When Mr. Montano began Botstein conducts the American poser’s name, could be translated as his career in the mid-1980s, he drew Symphony Orchestra, with the “Behold the Insanity.”) The 9:30 sets from calypso and new wave. Lately, soprano Talise Trevigne in the title will feature Mr. Baptista’s band he’s added E.D.M. to his party- role. Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Banquet of the Spirits, playing origi- starting algebra. With Angela Hunte, at 2 p.m.; Sosnoff Theater, Fisher nal material as well as tunes by Don Lyrikal, Skinny Fabulous, Sounds 4 Center for the Performing Arts, Bard Cherry and John Zorn, representing Life and Milo Myles. At 9 p.m., College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New two generations of the jazz avant- PlayStation Theater, 1515 Broadway, York, 845-758-7900, fishercenter.bard garde. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s at 44th Street, 888-929-7849, .edu. (Anthony Tommasini) playstationtheater.com. (Murray) Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL (Friday ‘ONE AFRICA MUSIC FEST’ (Friday) Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, through Thursday) It’s always worth Over the last few years, Nigerian jazz.org/dizzys. (Nate Chinen) visiting Cooperstown (a four-hour stars like Wizkid and Davido have drive from New York City) to see ★ BARRY HARRIS TRIO (Tuesday pulled pop’s center a little bit closer opera productions at the excitingly through July 31) The pianist Barry to Africa. They will headline an intimate 900-seat theater of the Harris belongs to a generation that old-school revue featuring several of adventurous Glimmerglass Festival. carried bebop’s torch into an uncer- the continent’s biggest stars, a group This season offers a production of tain future. He’s a figure of twinkly that draws equal inspiration from RUBY WASHINGTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Puccini’s “La Bohème” that gives the Fela Kuti and Puff Daddy. Brooklyn’s erudition, a natural pedagogue as work a Belle Époque setting; Rossi- own DJ Tunez mans the turntables well as an artist, and he has deep Δ WILLIAM PARKER (Tuesday and Wednesday) Mr. Parker, above, an avant- ni’s seldom-seen comedy “The and Banky W, a smooth singer in his history with his trio mates, Ray Thieving Magpie,” directed by Peter own right, plays Murray the K. At Drummond on bass and Leroy garde bassist whose sound and purpose both ring of bedrock, presents all new Kazaras; the composer Robert 7:30 p.m., Barclays Center, 620 Williams on drums. At 8:30 and 10:30 music in a two-night booking at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, a more formal setting Ward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning adap- Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh tation of Arthur Miller’s “The Cruci- Brooklyn, 800-745-3000, Avenue South, at 11th Street, West than usual for him. On Tuesday he will lead his promising Cosmic Mountain ble,” directed by Francesca Zam- barclayscenter.com. (Murray) Village, 212-255-4037, Quintet, with the saxophonists Kidd Jordan, Rob Brown and James Brandon bello; and Stephen Sondheim’s villagevanguard.com. (Chinen) “Sweeney Todd,” a new production PANORAMA MUSIC FESTIVAL (Fri- Lewis; the pianist Cooper-Moore; and the drummer Hamid Drake. On ★ MARQUIS HILL BLACKTET by the inventive director Christopher day through Sunday) At Randalls (Friday Wednesday he will present his In Order to Survive Extended Breathe Alden, conducted by John DeMain. Island Park, see photo highlight. and Saturday) “The Way We Play,” the major-label debut by the Chicago Ensemble, with the same saxophonists, along with the pianist Dave Burrell, Greer Grimsley sings the title role RADIOHEAD (Tuesday and Wednes- trumpeter Marquis Hill, amounts to and Luretta Bybee takes on Mrs. day) When did Radiohead realize this band’s official declaration of the trombonist Steve Swell and the multi-instrumentalists Lee Rozie (known Lovett. “Sweeney Todd,” Friday at that “Burn the Witch,” the lead single arrival. With Christopher McBride as Mixashawn) and Daniel Carter. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz at Lincoln 7:30 p.m.; “The Crucible,” Saturday from “A Moon Shaped Pool,” released on alto saxophone, Justin Thomas on at 8 p.m.; “La Bohème,” Sunday and in May, would be their new concert vibraphone, Joshua Ramos on bass, Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Nate Chinen) Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday at opener? Perhaps before they even and Makaya McCraven on drums, it 7:30 p.m.; “The Thieving Magpie,” C14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016

Monday at 1:30 p.m.; Glimmerglass Throughout, a dark view of Ameri- Opera, 7300 State Highway 80, eight can life and power is offset by a miles north of Cooperstown, 607-547- passion for melding small bits and 2255, glimmerglass.org. (Tommasini) Art pieces of reality into unlikely, often ecstatic wholes. 212-708-9400, moma Museums and galleries are in Man- .org. (Roberta Smith) Classical Music hattan unless otherwise noted. Full ★ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: reviews of recent art shows: nytimes ‘DADAGLOBE RECONSTRUCTED’ .com/art. A searchable guide to these (through Sept. 18) See photo high- BARGEMUSIC (Friday through and many other art shows is at light. Sunday) Mark Peskanov, director of nytimes.com/events. Bargemusic, has a busy weekend MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: ‘NAN ahead of him. On Friday night, he GOLDIN: THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL will be the violinist in a Brahms DEPENDENCY’ (through Feb. 12) sonata and a Dvorak piano trio, Museums Thirty-three years ago, Nan Goldin joining the cellist Evan Drachman began taking the photographs that and the pianist Doris Stevenson, who FRICK COLLECTION: ‘WATTEAU’S would make up the first iterations of themselves will play Grieg’s Cello SOLDIERS: SCENES OF MILITARY her astounding, autobiographical Sonata. And on Saturday and Sun- LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY slide show, “The Ballad of Sexual day, Mr. Peskanov will round out his FRANCE’ (through Oct. 2) Jean- Dependency.” Named after a song complete survey of the Beethoven Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) has been from “The Threepenny Opera,” it violin sonatas, with the pianist Nina beloved for his bucolic scenes of eventually came to consist of about Kogan. They throw in the “Arch- Rococo frivolity known as fetes 700 images of friends, lovers and duke” trio, with the cellist Eugene galantes. Not so famous are paint- herself disporting themselves with Osadchy, for good measure. Friday ings focused on the lives of common shameless abandon in the bohemian and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 4 soldiers in a time of war that he squalor of the Lower East Side of p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry made between 1709 and 1715. While Manhattan. Set to a rousing, eclectic Landing, next to the Brooklyn the military subject matter differs selection of music, including opera, Bridge, Brooklyn, 800-838-3006, markedly from that of Watteau’s pop, rock and blues, and projected bargemusic.org. (David Allen) fetes galantes, there’s an allusive, over about 45 minutes, it was in its INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTI- bittersweet poetry about these early time and still is an emotionally wrenching revelation, a defining TUTE AND FESTIVAL (Sunday works that looks forward to the later achievement of art in the 1980s. through July 31) In the Kaye Play- visions of pastoral dalliance. Of the 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Johnson) house at Hunter College, see photo seven such works known to have highlight. survived, four are featured along ★ WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN with 13 related drawings in this ART: ‘STUART DAVIS: IN FULL MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL (Friday illuminating show. 1 East 70th Street, SWING’ (through Sept. 25) This and Monday through Thursday) A Manhattan, 212-288-0700, frick.org. restless, zestful Whitney exhibition dream team of soloists comes togeth- (Ken Johnson) leaves out the earliest phase of a er for “The Illuminated Heart,” a ★ MET BREUER: ‘DIANE ARBUS: IN great American modernist’s career celebration of Mozart’s operatic THE BEGINNING’ but is still broad enough to be a genius with a selection of arias (through Nov. 27) survey while feeling sufficiently directed by Netia Jones and supple- This show of 100 or so early photo- focused to qualify as a thematic mented with video projections. graphs by Arbus (1923-71), many on study. As you move through the Among the cast: the powerhouse view for the first time, has a terrific show, you move through time, and soprano Christine Goerke and two installation, with work hung on change over time is the thread the notable Mozarteans, the baritone columnlike panels that suggest rows show follows. Beginning in the 1950s, Peter Mattei and the tenor Matthew of doors receding into darkness. The you see Mr. Davis’s dense composi- Polenzani. The week also includes pictures themselves, dating between tions, abstract with a realist core, free concerts by the Mostly Mozart 1956 and 1962, have a grainy, moody start to untangle. His palette simpli- Festival Orchestra in Damrosch Park texture, and Arbus has already fies. His use of words, or script-like on Friday, with the impressive young landed on some of her favored arabesques, grows. And more and violinist Simone Porter in Mozart’s themes: childhood, negotiable gen- more he looks to the past and brings Violin Concerto in G, and a series of der, fringe culture and class. If the it forward, revisiting, reusing and short “micro-concerts” by the Inter- show as a whole is more powerful transforming motives from his own national Contemporary Ensemble than most of its individual images, art, a pattern he likened to a jazz highlighting the music of composers there are some wonderful things. musician’s improvisations on favor- like Jeff Snyder, Rama Gottfried and And as a forecast of mature work to ite, unforgettable tunes. 99 Gan- Rand Steiger. On Thursday, the come — familiar examples are in- sevoort Street, at Washington Street, thoughtful pianist Leif Ove Andsnes cluded in a separate gallery — it is 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Cotter) will begin a run of concerts pairing utterly magnetic. 945 Madison Ave- Bach and Mozart, with the festival’s nue, at 75th Street, Manhattan, orchestra. Full schedule online at 212-535-0177, metmuseum.org. mostlymozart.org. (Holland Cotter) Galleries (da Fonseca-Wollheim) METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: ★ TANGLEWOOD (all week) The ‘DIVINE PLEASURES: PAINTING ★ ROBERT RYMAN (through July 30) FROM INDIA’S RAJPUT COURTS — main attraction in the Berkshires 2016 MAX ERNST ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS, THE BLUFF COLLECTION For nearly 60 years, the Minimalist this week is the Festival of Contem- THE KRONOS COLLECTIONS’ painter Robert Ryman has had few porary Music, which, before he died Δ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: correspondence and ephemera, and (through Sept. 12) Compared to the equals when it comes to doing more exacting refinement of Muslim in February, was to be curated by the ‘DADAGLOBE RECONSTRUCTED’ with less. White has been his prima- Pulitzer Prize-winning composer wacky head shots that Dadaists like artists in Mughal-era India, Hindu ry, if not quite his only, color, the Steven Stucky. The concerts, which (through Sept. 18) In 1920 the Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp painters — the subject of this ra- square his typical format. And yet, are scheduled every day through vishing exhibition, which celebrates within these seeming limitations a Monday, will include music by Den- Romanian poet and gadfly Tristan and Sophie Taeuber-Arp contributed a gift to the Met — favored bold color remarkably fecund and resonant nehy, Harvey, Boulez and Meltzer, Tzara made plans for a worldwide to it. (Above, “The Punching Ball or and boisterous figuration. Half of the body of work has evolved as the climax coming as Stefan Asbury art here comes from Rajasthan, in demonstrated with unusual clarity conducts the Tanglewood Music publication featuring the art of Dada, the Immortality of Buonarroti,” a the northwest of the subcontinent, (and in natural light) by this small Center Orchestra in Messiaen’s the convention-busting movement gelatin silver print by Max Ernst, where artists at the courts of Hindu but comprehensive exhibition. “Turangalîla Symphonie” and the from 1920.) For the Dadaists, art principalities created loose-leaf Dia:Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, American premiere of George Ben- that arose from the senselessness of albums depicting pining lovers alone 212-989-5566, diaart.org. (Smith) jamin’s “Dream of the Song” (Mon- World War I. The anthology never wasn’t a matter of placing discrete in the forest, musical instruments at day at 8 p.m.). The Boston Sym- objects in museums, but circulating their sides. (These ragamala, or phony has solid programs on Friday, materialized, but this sparky show, “garlands of ragas,” were an early ideas and images across new, experiment in multimedia: Each Last Chance Saturday and Sunday, not least first seen at the Kunsthaus Zürich giving a rare outing to Ginastera’s international media networks. It is an painting was associated with a “Variaciones Concertantes” under and accompanied by a landmark musical mode, which was in turn ★ PHILIP GUSTON: ‘PAINTER, 1957- aim as fresh today as it was a century associated with a poetic source.) The 1967’ (closes next Friday) This Juanjo Mena (Sunday at 8 p.m.). Full catalog, reassembles the drawings, details available online. Tanglewood ago. 212-708-9400, moma.org. other half comes from the Punjab show focuses on an epic journey Music Center, 297 West Street, reproductions, fascinating hills, south of the Himalayas, where from the serene fields of tiny brush Lenox, Mass., 888-266-1200, bso.org. (Jason Farago) erotic paintings had a divine tinge. strokes — “classic” Abstract Expres- (Allen) One ardent, exquisite painting from sionist Guston — to the unsettling the late 18th century shows Krishna figurative work that ranks among path, Bryan Arias and his ensemble first time in over a decade. The ★ VICTORY DANCE (Thursday) The and his companion Lakshmi making the greatest late styles of 20th- execute his sharp, angry-sexy broad range of her artistic and Victory Dance series is a sampler love in a dense copse of flowering century painting. It posits abstrac- moves. At various times, 358 George cultural interests is on display with a platter for young audiences that also trees, her bare breasts pressed tion as an anomalous yet essential against his blue torso. 212-535-7710, Carter Road, Becket, Mass., 413-243- program that includes deconstructed satiates an adult appetite. This phase; Guston’s paint-handling Dance metmuseum.org. (Jason Farago) became physical and only more so as 0745, jacobspillow.org. (Schaefer) square dancing in “Country Dances” iteration features a handful of today’s images returned. Hauser & Wirth, 511 (1976); the busy, complicated and top tappers, presented by the Ameri- ★ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: Full reviews of recent dance ★ L.A. DANCE PROJECT (Tuesday West 18th Street, Chelsea, 212-794- colorful “Brahms Paganini” from can Tap Dance Foundation; Camille ‘BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE’ performances: nytimes.com/dance. A through July 30) Only four years old, 4970, hauserwirth.com. (Smith) 1980, with six dancers elegantly A. Brown, a skillful storyteller who searchable guide to these and other this Southern California company (through Oct. 2) One of the great presents “New Second Line,” in- ★ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: ‘ED- performances is at nytimes.com has proved a safe bet for adventur- freaking out in preppy pastels and a outliers of postwar American art is spired by Hurricane Katrina and GAR DEGAS: A STRANGE NEW /events. ous programming and polished long, riveting solo; and a new work the subject of a profuse, beautifully made to sections from Beethoven’s New Orleans; and Nadine Bommer ordered retrospective. Each gallery BEAUTY’ (closes on Sunday) Among COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY dancing. Case in point: For its Joyce Opus 130. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday presents a fusion of dance and pan- highlights one aspect of his interdis- the greats of late-19th-century BALLET AND CAROLYN DORFMAN debut, the troupe will present an at 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 tomime set on a soccer field. At 7 ciplinary sensibility: the early paint- French painting, Degas remained DANCE American premiere by one of its (Wednesday) Dwight Rho- Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, 212-242- p.m., the New Victory Theater, 209 ings, sardonic assemblages, exqui- closest to tradition and its focus on den and Desmond Richardson, the founders, Benjamin Millepied, a work by the popular and ubiquitous 0800, joyce.org. (Schaefer) West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 646- site collages, magnificent films and the human body, which may explain founders and directors of Complex- 223-3010, newvictory.org. (Schaefer) miraculous inkblot drawings. why this large but thrillingly in- ions Contemporary Ballet, are Justin Peck, another by the singular Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi timate show is his first solo at the known for their glossy, showy, sensu- Modern. It focuses his monotypes — al brand of ballet. As part of Sum- Cherkaoui and three duets by Martha Graham. And they’ll make the most seductive of all print merStage, a festival of free mediums — and their modernizing performances at parks around town, all of them look good. Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday effect on his art, revealing with they apply that aesthetic to the exceptional clarity a radical merging abrasive sounds of Metallica in through July 30 at 8 p.m., also at 2 p.m. on July 30, Joyce Theater, 175 of subject and process that brought “Strum.” Sharing the bill is Carolyn new liveliness to depictions of the Dorfman’s “Waves,” a collaboration Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, 212-242- 0800, joyce.org. (Schaefer) body and to art itself. 212-708-9400, between Ms. Dorfman’s company, a moma.org. (Smith) cellist, a beat boxer and a recorder MONSTAH BLACK (Friday and Satur- player. At 8 p.m., Rumsey Playfield, NOGUCHI MUSEUM: ‘TOM SACHS: day) The HOT! Festival at Dixon TEA CEREMONY’ Central Park, midpark at 70th Street, Place is a multidisciplinary arts (closes on Sunday) 212-360-2777, summerstage.org; free. buffet that has celebrated queer Founded by the Japanese-American (Brian Schaefer) artists and culture for 25 years — sculptor Isamu Noguchi, the Noguchi has never offered a solo exhibition FINI DANCE FESTIVAL (Sunday) At way before they found a degree of mainstream acceptance. The center- dedicated to another artist since its the Manhattan Movement & Arts opening in 1985 — until now, that is. Center, see photo highlight. piece this year is “Hyperbolic! The Last Spectacle,” a debauched “Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,” an GIBNEY DANCE COMPANY (Saturday evening of apocalyptic glamour by installation of clunky constructions and Thursday) As part of its “Dance- Monstah Black, a choreographer, relating to the ancient Japanese Mobile” series, Gibney Dance Com- composer, designer and performer tradition of chanoyu, the ritualized pany spreads out around New York who mixes ingredients like modern preparation and serving of tea, is the to offer free performances set dance, disco, burlesque and a bit of first. Compared with Mr. Noguchi’s against sidewalks and skyscrapers. butoh with equal parts party and invariably elegant sculptures, Mr. On Saturday at Brooklyn Bridge politics. At 7:30 p.m., 161A Chrystie Sachs’s works look as if they were Park, the troupe will perform duets Street, between Rivington and De- created by a manic, semiskilled by its founder, Gina Gibney, that lancey Streets, Lower East Side, handyman in his basement work- span more than a quarter century, 212-219-0736, dixonplace.org. shop. He collides West and East with paired with a performance installa- (Schaefer) insouciant aplomb. 9-01 33rd Road, at tion by David Thomson. On Thurs- Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, day, the company will perform Amy ★ NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA Queens, 718-204-7088, noguchi.org. Miller’s “Cadence” and share the (Thursday through July 31) Fresh off (Johnson) evening with ensembles from the success of last year’s Tony- ★ RICHARD SERRA (closes next Cumbe: Center for African and winning “An American in Paris,” Friday) New works occupying Diaspora Dance. Saturday at 7 p.m., which he directed and Gagosian Gallery’s two Chelsea installation at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.; choreographed, the British display spaces find Mr. Serra, at 76, Thursday at 7 p.m., 2 Old Fulton choreographer Christopher Wheel- still wrangling sculptural fundamen- Street, at Furman Street, Dumbo, don gives New Yorkers another taste tals into objects and installations of Brooklyn, gibneydance.org; free. of his smart storytelling with an ROBERT ALTMAN/BAM thrilling severity. At West 21st Street (Schaefer) adaptation of Shakespeare’s complex romance “The Winter’s Tale.” Per- is a single, grand example of his ★ JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTI- INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL formed by the National Ballet of (Sunday through July 31) For mazes made from immense ribbons VAL (through Aug. 28) This weekend Canada (after a 2014 premiere in pianists and their fans, for those who love piano music and for everything of rolled steel; West 24th Street brings several more performances of London by the Royal Ballet, which hosts three works made of solid steel “Sunset, o639 Hours,” a visually and co-produced the ballet), this tale of piano-related, the 18th season of the International Keyboard Institute and slabs as well as a drawing installa- musically rich, semi-narrative ballet jealousy and forgiveness features Festival is coming to Hunter College. True to tradition, the festival offers tion, which are on view through Oct. about early airmail in the South lush sets, original music by Joby 22. In certain respects, the two Pacific by BalletX, of Philadelphia, Talbot and Mr. Wheeldon’s lovely recitals (sometimes two a day) by acclaimed as well as emerging pianists; exhibitions represent formal oppo- and the choreographer Zvi Gothein- moves. Thursday through July 30 at lectures; master classes; and a competition. Highlights this week include a sites. While the maze subordinates er’s triptych of works inspired by the 8 p.m., also at 2 p.m. on July 30 and material to gravity-defying form, the artists M.C. Escher, Francis Bacon 31, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln rare appearance by the eminent French pianist Philippe Entremont, now 82, slabs favor weighty raw material. and Mark Rothko. Beginning Center, 212-721-6500, on Saturday; a joint concert by institute faculty on Monday; and a recital by What the two have in common is Wednesday, the ballerina Wendy lincolncenterfestival.org. (Schaefer) their awesomely expansive effects Whelan, formerly of the New York the impressive young George Li, above, on Wednesday. At 8 p.m., Kaye on consciousness. Gagosian Gallery, City Ballet, will perform a series of ★ TWYLA THARP DANCE (Friday Playhouse, Hunter College, 68th Street, between Lexington and Park Avenues, 522 West 21st Street, Chelsea, 212-741- contemporary solos and duets by and Saturday) Twyla Tharp, modern 1717; and through Oct. 22 at 555 West and with the choreographer Brian dance’s great populist, brings her 212-772-4448, ikif.org. (Anthony Tommasini) 24th Street, Chelsea, 212-741-1111, Brooks. Meanwhile, down the dirt company back to the Joyce for the gagosian.com. (Johnson) THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C15

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Shailene Woodley, Theo James. Teenager battles segregated postwar society. Dumb de- Twister (1996). Helen Hunt. Divorcing scientists chase with possible ties to Pelant. (14) spite dashing stars. (PG-13) tornadoes. Fantastic roller-coaster ride. (PG-13) TRAV Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (N) (PG) Mysteries at the Museum (PG) It Came Outta Nowhere (N) (PG) Mysteries at Definitions of symbols used in the program listings: TRU Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Top Funniest Greatest Ever Greatest Ever Top Funniest ★ Recommended film (N) New show or episode TVLAND Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Miss Congeniality (2000). Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine. 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(R) (6) T.I. and Tiny Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (14) Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (14) Amber Rose Basketball Wives LA (Y7) Directed to older children (14) Parents strongly cautioned WE Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Million Dollar Matchmaker Farrah Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Million Dollar (G) General audience (MA) Mature audience only Stars (14) Stars “Puppet Master.” (14) Stars “Trainwrecking.” (N) (14) Abraham from “Teen Mom.” (N) (14) Stars “Trainwrecking.” (14) Matchmaker (14) WGN-A Person of Interest “In Extremis.” Person of Interest “Zero Day.” (14) Person of Interest “God Mode.” Person of Interest “Liberty.” (14) Person of Interest (14) Person-Interest The TV ratings are assigned by the producers or network. Ratings for theatrical films are provided by the Motion Picture YES CenterStage Boxing 30 SportsMoney Swing Clinic Jimmy Hanlin Extra Innings M.L.B. San Francisco Giants vs. New York Yankees. Association of America. 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