When “The Painted Bird” was first shown at film festivals in the fall – way back when people could still sit in movie theaters – there were mass walkouts reported at Venice and Toronto, by viewers who were horrified by some of the action depicted in this black-and-white Holocaust drama (more or less faithfully adapted […]

Amy Schumer rose to fame telling jokes that made hilarious, self-deprecating light of lackluster sex, bad boyfriends and other foibles of young adulthood that she ingeniously flipped into more serious observations on sexism, modern feminism and a culture obsessed with body image. She’s one of those comedians for whom a stretch of personal satisfaction, including […]

Footlights Theatre in Falmouth reopens with a comedy that both addresses our current health crisis, and provides relief from it.