Culture
“A Taste of Honey”: A jazzy kitchen-sink drama
October 12, 2016A Taste of Honey has a fascinating and distinguished pedigree belying its humble origins.
Read more“Seminar”: Fraud, class conflict, sex, toxicity in a writers’ group
October 6, 2016The playwright raises a whirlwind of questions about the craft and the business of writing.
Read more“The Birth of a Nation” receives standing ovation
October 3, 2016Never has a film captured the profound history of American slave rebellions as powerfully and artistically as this one.
Read moreBlinded by the bright lights of Hollywood and “Café Society”
July 29, 2016How Woody Allen keeps 'em coming on such a high level of interest is a phenomenon of continued creative juices still flowing in the senior decades.
Read moreAmerican Gods: Cast, producers talk whitewashing, Mike Pence, new trailer
July 25, 2016Imagine a world where supernatural personifications of the internet, capitalism, and media are newly formed gods hell-bent on taking power.
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