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Larry Charles is by every standard a seminal figure in contemporary humor, on the tube and in movie theaters. Why doesn’t everyone know his name
There is a moral to this story, besides the obvious one, that murder is a horrible crime whether the body is found or not. If there are wealthy women with weaknesses to exploit, predators will find them.
Audiences prefer that political messages be buried under heaps of horror, but this film may be extreme enough to alert some viewers to look beneath the bloody spectacle.
The concluding chapter in the Downton Abbey saga is a classy and entertaining multileveled melodrama that features excellent production values and a script with a light touch.
This is a light, diverting show, well-suited as background fodder, but unlikely to garner the same following as “The Office” or “Parks and Recreation.”
This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.
This week’s poem: Mark Pawlak’s 4 poems from “Special Operation,” Ukraine
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call — a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.
We have a biography that reads like a novel in its range and intensity, a biography that forces us to dig deeper into our own preconceived prejudices and understand another man — a famous writer — in ways that neither he nor we might have ever thought possible.
Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam, Christoph von Dohnányi (1929-2025)
Christoph von Dohnányi was a rare breed: a truly great artist whose mind never rested and whose standards never settled.
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