Theater Review | 'Fables de La Fontaine': On the Surface, the Moral. Beneath That, the Blood.
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Robert Wilson and the ComÃ©die FranÃ§aise have uncovered the rush of pulsing blood beneath the lapidary drollness of La Fontaineâs moral tales.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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New plays by Michael Murphy and John Patrick Shanley explore the reaction of church members to suspected sex abuse by priests.
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âWe Own the Nightâ is a bloody, passionate melodrama, self-consciously Shakespearean â or Biblical, or Greek, take your pick of atavisms â in its intentions.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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LOS ANGELES  - If there's one lesson that should have been learned from Thomas Harris' dipping into the Hannibal Lecter well once too often, it's that backstories detract from the mythos of a character.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families.
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Arts & entertainment: Theatre: Transcendent puppeteering turns Michael Morpurgo's war novel into the ultimate horse play.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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While âThe Maddening Truthâ is fascinating as a character study, its weakness as a play is the paucity of dramatic conflict.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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Shakespeare, specialist in flawed heroes, would have had a field day with Yasser Arafat. His life, his secrecy-shrouded illness and his death in Paris on Thursday were rich with symbolism of the aching tragedy of missed potential.
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Fable succeeds as a plain-ol' fantasy action game where you kill things to buy stuff to kill bigger things. But given the expectations that preceeded it, the game is ultimately disappointing. Lore SjÃ¶berg reviews Fable.
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A new arts festival tries to show why political theater doesn't have to taste like medicine.
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There is plenty of sorrow to be found in âInto the Wild.â But though the filmâs structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.