Rudetsky and Plotnick's book winks at many of these Big-Screen exploits, but never out-and-out 'steals' from any of them, resulting in an entirely"and an enthrallingly--new work that has the…
Ejiofor, known in the U.S. best for his starring role in 12 Years a Slave, has now directed (and is starring in) a new film for Netflix, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. He wanted to be caref…
"In a storytelling culture obsessed with bigger stories and higher stakes, climate change should be irresistible. And yet when we try to tell the story " whether it's motivated by politics o…
The mostly-pre-recorded broadcast was the least viewed of all recent live musicals.
"Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster." Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
Video of the 2013 derailment and explosion of an oil-tanker train that killed 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic features in both Netflix original productions, and, despite heavy critici…
“Taken together, these two rules will subject huge swaths of online expression to interception and arbitrary censorship, and give the largest news companies in Europe the power to deci…
Equity has backed the idea of a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, claiming that leaving with no deal
The Lord really does move in mysterious ways, it seems. Not only has tourism to the Spanish town of Borja more than quadrupled, but revenues have funded places for the indigent in the local …
The Bank will provide scripts to high schools whose libraries have been destroyed by natural disasters.
Samuel French is collaborating with the Educational Theatre Association on the new project.
Ah, the perils and pleasures of live theater. Director Kate Jopson's al fresco production of Octavio Solis' "Hole in the Sky" was to premiere at the Courtship Ranch, a working ranch in Lake …
Doom and gloom shows are a dime a dozen at the Fringe, and these two address a particular brand of disaster with varying results.
The Cornley University Drama Society is excited to announce they have found enough students willing to live out of a suitcase for a year to fully cast the first national tour of the Olivier …
Nederlander Theater, New YorkThe dated gender politics of the Julia Roberts hit fail to receive an upgrade in a shallow musical that falls apart on stageTuneful, schlocky, and deeply offensi…
Performances will begin in September at The Cell.
I saved this post about the cheesy made-for-tv movie Smash-Up on Interstate 5 for today because it is set on July 4. I watched the film when it premiered in December, 1976 as part of the ori…
Fetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous, say the team behind new play Home, I'm DarlingJudy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She wa…
Connecticut Repertory Theatre CRT announces the casting for the first production of the2018 Nutmeg Summer Series Disaster, the hilarious new musical straight from Broadway. CRTwelcomes the c…
A series about preparations for nuclear attack is a fascinating glimpse into the bunker mentality