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Connections forged over five decades gave him insider access to everyone from Jessica Chastain and Harvey Fierstein to the late Broadway publicist Susan Schulman and the legendary Lynne Mead…
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) " Dior turned the Musée Rodin into a celebrity waiting room " then into a garden " on the first day of Paris Couture Week. Guests packed into the museum as the …
Thornton Wilder's classic American play is transposed for the inaugural production of National Theatre Wales. The result is heartfelt, though its emotional bite can feel uncertain
A revival …
Jodie Foster said in a new interview with NPR that she was "saved" from Hollywood sexual abuse because she earned power in the industry at such a young age. Part of that power came from scor…
Suffused throughout the epic length, depth and breadth of the masterpiece The Inheritance Part 1 gifted here by Zoetic Stage is a profound sense of searching, With fierce anger, incisive wit…
A new documentary reveals how the comedian overcame her insecurities to reach the top in a male-dominated industry
Scholars and artists at Sorbonne University trained artificial intelligence to imitate the French playwright's themes, structures and sense of humor. The result is a new play.
The Toronto Theatre Review: Crow's Theatre's Rogers v. Rogers By Ross Walking into Toronto's Crow's Theatre for Rogers v. Rogers, I was already annoyed, borderline hostile, if I'm being hone…
By JESSICA NEU Directed by Hal Chambers and written and performed by Richard Marsh, Yippee Ki Yay The Parody Celebration of Die Hard is a clever one-man show that brings the iconic 1988…
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
Tom Stoppard: a life in pictures
A b…
That "Zootopia 2" is as fresh, funny and densely packed as the first film feels like a miracle, but the truth is that there's nothing miraculous about it: it's just made by humans who put a …
When Madeline Austin saw a live adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice" last year, Jane Austen's humor and wit leapt from the stage.
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THREE WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL In 1978, five women gather in an upper-middle-class home in Karaj, Iran, to primp and prepare themselves; one of them is getting married and being that they are …
The TIFF Film Review: Gus Van Sant's "Dead Man's Wire" By Ross NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE " United States of America | 2025 | 104m | English The smooth radio tones of Roberta Flack and such dri…
By Alix Cohen "Dotty had a mind like a steel trap- and a tongue to match." Robert Benchley Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a poet, short story writer, screenwriter, critic, and satirist known…
By AARON KRAUSE A small, dark statue of a woman rests among the items in Jacob Brown's realistic set design for Main Street Players' (MSP) shining professional production of Lauren Gunderson…
This sterling production of a flawed play announces to the theatergoing public that Tin Drum"which was launched only last year"is a company worth watching.
The production, starring Rich's close friend Patricia Clarkson, transferred to Broadway that same season. Over the next three and a half decades ...
"The music is a zany mashup of classic Broadway, Renaissance style, and tongue-in-cheek parody," says Trask. The show has several full-chorus ...
To give tribute this great American playwright, who died on July 4 at the age of 67, we assembled a party of colleagues, friends, and admirers.
A friend and colleague remembers the director as a private but passionate man who treated new plays like classics, and classics like new plays.