Mandy Patinkin Mandy Patinkin – Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center – Philadelphia, PA – October 30, 2019 Mandy Patinkin has been working for so many years mostly as an actor that you sometimes forget what a sublime singer he can be. After all, before he became an accomplished actor on TV and the big screen – he currently is in the middle of a long stint as co-star on the popular series Homeland, and his beloved role in The Princess Bride has made him a pop-culture meme – Patin

Judith Light, Oona Yaffe, Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock in “Before You Know It.” Hannah Pearl Utt, Jen Tullock & Oona Yaffe On the Big Screen Before They Know It by Jay S. Jacobs It makes sense that Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock’s first film looks at the downtown New York theater world, because that was where it all began for them. The two met years ago in the Village years ago as aspiring actresses and writers. Nearly a decade after they first started the screenplay fo

Wonder WONDER (2017) Starring Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Mandy Patinkin, Ali Liebert, Crystal Lowe, Daveed Diggs, Izabela Vidovic, Nadji Jeter, Emma Tremblay, Noah Jupe, Millie Davis, Danielle Rose Russell, Bryce Gheisar, Elle McKinnon, Ty Consiglio, Kyle Breitkopf, James Hughes and Sonia Braga. Screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Distributed by Lionsgate. 113 minutes. Rated PG. I read the YA novel Wond

Joey King in New York City. Photo © 2014 Mark Doyle. All rights reserved. Joey King Wish She Was Here by Jay S. Jacobs It seems almost like a cliché to say that Joey King has grown up before our eyes, but literally that is true.  The young actress, who will be turning 15 next month, has been in front of the cameras since she was only six, when appearances on commercials led to her first TV role in a couple of episodes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. And what an action-packe