“Film” and “Notfilm": Playwright Samuel Beckett meets Buster Keaton
On the face of it, a collaboration between Beckett and Buster Keaton sounds like an unlikely alliance of artists.
"A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
“Spies Are Forever”: When genres collide
The conventions of the espionage thriller meet the attributes of the musical, with lots of comedy along the way.
Spies, lies, and glanders: “The Americans” season four premiere
Season four of FX's The Americans begins with a troubling image from character Philip Jennings' past.
“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
Singing for change: Soundtrack of a movement
There is a soundtrack to the rising movement for social change.
Last tango in Kabul? “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and the embedded reporter
"Tango" perpetuates that age-old Hollywood tradition of setting stories in the "exotic" Third World.
