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Adapted from the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting is as whimsical as it is putrid. One of the most iconic and provocative films of the 1990s, it serves to examine the life of heroin addict Mark Renton and his addict friends as they endlessly search for the next hit. With an unrivalled energy and an unforgettable soundtrack, we seek to dig deeper into this film’s messages…

Jenny Lewis Delights Kings Theatre with Career-Spanning Set on Thursday

Jenny Lewis – Kings Theatre – October 24, 2019

Almost 15 years since her first solo release, Jenny Lewis somehow seems like a midnight cult classic and a blockbuster film, an artist who feels like a secret and also tailor-made to play the main stage at major festivals and sell out big, historic theaters in tier-one cities. That’s what she did on Thursday night in Brooklyn, delighting a packed Kings Theatre with a career-spanning set that still quixotically, felt under the radar. Lewis, bedazzled in a gold sequined dress, walked out to “867-5309/Jenny” playing over the PA, the entrance music and the outfit working on the levels of serious star power and tongue-in-cheek joke all at once. The ensuing set featured a string section, a tight rock band, an appearance from longtime collaborators the Watson Twins, a Bob Dylan cover and lots of fawning screams from superfans scattered throughout the room.

The show began with the first two tracks off of Lewis’s newest album, On the Line, and ended with its closing song. In between, she treated the audience to selections from her entire catalog, moving from pop diva to country star to rock frontwoman to folkie to soul singer and back again. The band was equally as impressive backing her do-anything alto: organ perfectly complementing her voice on “Wasted Youth,” Jason Crosby’s fiddle bringing down-home mood to “Happy,” guitarist Dylan Day’s slide making “Melt Your Heart” extra dreamy. The latter featured openers/friends the Watson Twins, who appeared after a goofy staged phone-call gag and also brought the extra oomph to “Rise Up with Fists!!” which certainly made plenty of people’s Thursday night, enough emotional kick to make you feel 12 years younger.

Things went from rock (“Just One of the Guys”) to soul-groove (“Little White Dove” complete with large, party-time balloons tossed out into the crowd) to gospel (“Born Secular”), Lewis’s voice handling each with no-problem ease. The audience went silent for her cover of Dylan’s “Standing in the Doorway” and then lit up again for the set-closing Rilo Kiley number “Silver Lining” with its slick little guitar runs and chug-a-lug drumming. The encore found Lewis ad-libbing “Met the devil down in Brooklyn” in “Party Clown”—to the crowd’s delight—another Rilo Kiley song, “I Never,” and finished in cult-classic blockbuster fashion with a guy in a rabbit costume bouncing around stage as the band went down the “Rabbit Hole.” —A. Stein | @Neddyo

Photos courtesy of DeShaun Craddock | dac.photography

Happy International Dylan Thomas Day! On this date in 1953, Dylan Thomas premiered ‪Under Milk Wood‬ on our stage. In an extraordinary audio recording, you can listen to Thomas’ opening monologue from that night.