On Wednesday night Tim Burton gave the Film Society of Lincoln Center a 17-minute taste of Sweeney Todd, his film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s macabre musical. The 1979 Broadway hit was inspired by Victorian folklore about a crazed London barber who slits his customers’ throats and, in some versions of the story, colludes with his lover to bake the corpses into meat pies – which become wildly successful! (Ah, the culinary possibilities before rogue......

THEATER: Sarah Maxfield, the brains behind theater collective Red Metal Mailbox, brings THROW, the bi-monthly performance series she curates, to The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City. Imbibe cheap beer and vibe new work by Rebecca Davis, Betsy Miller & Dancers, and Tara O'Con. After each experiment, Maxfield moderates an exchange in which each performer interrogates the audience in hopes of culling constructive criticism from the increasingly lubricated crowd. Who’ll be the first to declare,......

Oliver Stone may have already unleashed on moviegoers his melodramatic vision of 9/11 with World Trade Center but even if you don't want to see the wreckage recreated on screen, there's way more filling New York movie screens. Two flicks to appeal to the teen and pre-teen audiences: Step Up is a dance school movie about a boy from the wrong side of the tracks (Channing Tatum) and the slightly prissy girl (Jenna Dewan) who......