In one of the most quoted movie lines ever, a girl at a dance in the movie “The Wild One” asks biker Marlon Brando, “Hey, Johnnie, what are you rebellin’ agains...
Vladimir Nabokov asked his literature students a famously difficult question on their final exams: “What is the overarching tone of Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchar...
British playwright David Hare's “The Judas Kiss,” running through June 11 at Actor’s Express, is a reminder that the story of Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas (Clift...
Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” is an actors’ play, with two roles that allow for a rip-roaring evening: raw sexuality, rough physical tussling, comic bits and wi...
Out of Hand Theater could be forgiven for feeling a bit waterlogged these days. Members have been workshopping playwright Margaret Baldwin’s work-in-progress “W...
An "All in the Family" for the New Yorker set, "August: Osage County" features a dysfunctional family whose erudite vocabulary and references to T.S. Eliot prob...
With good parody, the more you know about the original, the more you can appreciate the jokes. So “Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits: Vol. 1,” which just opened ...
There’s something about Spoon Lake that just gives folks the blues -- and possibly a rap sheet. Good old boys are so broke that they turn to burglary to prevent...
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman, no stranger to controversy, recently riled his base with a suggestion that there are too many arts org...
Few projects exemplify the notion of the university as an incubator of the arts quite like the biennial “Brave New Works” festival presented by the Playwriting ...
