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Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who once played Carnegie Hall might tutor a young Holocaust refugee to a Julliard scholarship, and breezy jam sessions do away with generations of friction between races, genders and sexual identities. You’d go there, right?

Well, you can. New York, New York, the new(ish) Kander & Ebb musical, opens tonight at Broadway’s St. James Theatre. But be warned: Even the rosiest-hued urban utopia can get a bit tiresome when it’s this overstuffed with good intentions.

Inspired, at least in name, by Martin Scorsese’s 1977 movie starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, New York, New York is less an adaptation than it is a John Kander & Fred Ebb jukebox musical: In addition to the two very...

"I just don't understand why we're stopping at only one." Gravitas Ventures has revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller titled Bundles, marking the feature debuts of filmmakers Ryan Jordan & Jeffrey Leslie. This hasn't played at any festivals or elsewhere, but will be landing on VOD later in July or anyone that wants to watch. A high school girl's harmless plot for revenge inspires a lucrative business venture, until a group of friends find themselves in a hairy situation. Why does this sound like a dark comedy? The film is set in the D.M.V. area, and is described as having a "range of nostalgic and jaw clenching events." The huge ensemble cast features Yovanna Harris, Naysa Young, Tanisha Cardwell, Alexis Jacquelyn Smith, Layla Khepri, Karen Culi, Kevin Tan, Lisa Renee Marshall, Imonte Ford, Nick Scales, and more. It's pretty clear why this didn't play at any fests...