Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
By Manning Marable
$30; Viking Press

The scholar and author Manning Marable died just on the eve of publication of his magnum opus, this sober, detailed, engrossing biography of Malcolm X....

JERUSALEM *** out of ****
THE MUSIC BOX

Is there a better, more versatile stage actor alive than Mark Rylance? Comedy, drama, tragedy -- he handles it all with aplomb, often in the same breath. Jez Butterworth's new drama Jerusalem gives Rylance a...

THE SECRET OF N.I.M.H.
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVENN ($19.99 each on BluRay; MGM) -- If you love Pixar, tip your hat to Don Bluth. He -- along with Ralph Bakshi and other rebels...

WONDERLAND * out of ****
BEING HAROLD PINTER ** 1/2
WE'RE GONNA DIE ***

WONDERLAND * out of ****
MARQUIS THEATRE

The career of composer Frank Wildhorn gets curioser and curioser. This is the first time I've seen one of his shows...

TRACY & HEPBURN: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION ($59.98; Warner Bros.) -- So what's your pick for the greatest screen team of them all? William Powell and Myrna Loy? (I do love The Thin Man.) Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with their nutty Road movies? Richard...

WAR HORSE *** out of ****
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER

A massive critical and commercial hit in the UK (where I saw it first), War Horse comes to Broadway fully intact. It's a dazzling theatrical achievement that is sure to move audiences here as...

SLEEP NO MORE *** 1/2 out of ****
EVANS HAILE: SALON SOIREE ***

SLEEP NO MORE *** 1/2 out of ****
THE MCKITTRICK HOTEL

Punchdrunk is a theater company that specializes in "immersive" theater in which the audiences wanders in and throughout spaces,...

THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT *** out of ****
SCHOENFELD THEATRE

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis hits Broadway with the very funny, solidly written show with a title that's NSFW: The Motherf**ker With The Hat. Guirgis is one of the most talented and acclaimed...

THE CIVIL WAR RAGES ON...A RUNDOWN OF NEW BOOKS, MUSIC AND CLASSIC DVDS

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle Of Fort Sumter. "Rebels" -- or as I like to call them, traitors -- launched this attack which led to the Civil War, an...

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN *** 1/2 out of ****
NEIL SIMON THEATRE

It's tempting to say "a star is born." But that already happened with actor Aaron Tveit's electrifying turn in the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Next To Normal. So let's just say a star...

MEEK'S CUTOFF *** 1/2 out of ****
Opening day in limited release

Director Kelly Reichardt gets better and better with every film, and here she fulfills the promise of Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy. The latter starred Michelle Williams as a woman who lost her dog;...

ANYTHING GOES ** 1/2 out of ****
STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE

It's hard to go wrong with a sturdy musical theater vessel like the Cole Porter classic Anything Goes. But the Roundabout comes close with the mildly pleasant revival currently on Broadway, an indifferent...

TREME COMPLETE FIRST SEASON ($79.98 BluRay; $59.99 regular DVD; HBO) -- The new season of Treme begins on HBO April 24. The great cast and the track record of the people behind it (they did The Wire, a show I can confidently...

MIKE BIRBIGLIA'S MY GIRLFRIEND'S BOYFRIEND *** out of ****
BARROW STREET THEATRE

Why hasn't some TV network/cable channel snapped up comic Mike Birbiglia for a sitcom? He's all over TV talk shows and radio's This American Life. He's got a bestselling collection of...

SUPER 2 1/2 out of 4
In Theaters Now

This comedy was definitely one of the success stories of the Toronto International Film Festival. A similar tale to Kick-Ass (which I really enjoyed), it shows a schmucky, average Joe (Rainn Wilson) who turns himself into a superhero when his...

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO ** out of ****
RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE

Clearly, playwright Rajiv Jospeh is a talent. Earlier this season, his show Gruesome Playground Injuries played Off Broadway. While not emotionally involving, it was cleverly constructed and inspired top work from everyone...

Actor Daniel Radcliffe will turn 22 during his run in the new revival of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (on July 23, to be exact). If he wanted to, he could probably turn 23 and still be in it -- the show fits him like...

The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
By A.C. Grayling
$35; Walker & Company

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then British philosopher A.C. Grayling has just paid the...

THE TOURIST ($38.96 BluRay or $28.95 regular DVD; Sony) -- This Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie romantic thriller is curiously mellow, if not downright sleepy. I blame Venice. In Paris, you might careen around the city in a snazzy sports car, tires squealing. In...

WHITE IRISH DRINKERS *** out of ****
In theaters today

TV talent John Gray (The Ghost Whisperer) takes a promising step into cinema with this solid coming-of-age tale. Relative unknown Nick Thurston is very appealing as Brian Leary, a sensitive young lad growing up in the rough...