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Dramatist Lydia R. Diamond makes an honorable effort to adapt Toni Morrison’s novel to the stage, but with mixed results.
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In this collection, Carolynn Kingyens discloses what lies behind the veneer of our relationships.
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What is the most depressing thing about Pam & Tommy? The series provides the most sympathetic portrait of Pam Anderson that is out there.
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If this film accomplishes anything, it’s to remind us of how much we lost when Jimi Hendrix died.
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A relaxing family vacation story morphs into a quietly riveting character study.
Read MoreMusic Review: “Someone/Anyone? A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Todd Rundgren’s Something/Anything?”
Someone/Anyone? is packed with lots of great music and makes a strong complement to the album it compliments, Something/Anything?
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With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.
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Unlike musicians who operate on the surface and create a beautiful veneer, pianist Lennie Tristano’s music asks harder questions.
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In our intersectional age, the stories of the fools of Chelm belong on the shelves of any child with a taste for the ridiculous and — with the clarity of kids — an ability to see through self-delusion.
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Edward Loder’s well-crafted Raymond and Agnes (1855) captures much of the eerie glow of its Gothic model, Matthew Lewis’s once scandalous novel, The Monk.
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