Theater Review | 'Black Watch': To Tell These War Stories, Words Arenât Enough
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Itâs not until the first body pushes itself out of the pool table, a few minutes into the show, that you begin to grasp just how thrilling â and how disturbing â âBlack Watchâ is going to be.
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Jordan Harrisonâs brash play turns fragments from the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, into a story that is funny and thought provoking.
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VENICE, Italy  - Ang Lee's lugubrious spy epic "Lust, Caution" brings to mind what soldiers say about war: that it is long periods of boredom relieved by moments of extremely heightened excitement.
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VENICE, Italy  - Paul Verhoeven's World   War II drama "Black Book" is an ambitious throwback to the days   of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid   loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy.
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Iraq News, Baghdad: Black Watch soldiers in Iraq&#39;s &quot;triangle of death&quot; said the killing of four of their comrades had strengthened their resolve to stay and see their task through.
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Reviews of works performed by Robert Weirich, Andrew Rangell and Lisa Bielawa.
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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Iraqi doctor turned film-maker Omer  Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life  portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of  "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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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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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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In this age of âShrekâ and âEnchantedâ comes âThe City That Cried Wolf,â a theatrical take on fairy tales that conjures its own magic.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina's tradition of cultural coexistence - particularly impressive when set against centuries of nearly continuous internecine warfare in Western Europe - offers a compelling lesson for the ...
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The loss of three Black Watch soldiers, one aged only 19, to a suicide bomber in Iraq is, as the battle groupâs commander said yesterday, a âpainful blowâ keenly felt by The Black Watch and the country.
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A film highlighting the story of North African soldiers in the French army in WWII looks set to intrigue the nation.
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Arts & entertainment: Is director Errol Morris's new film too soft on US army abuses, asks Geoffrey Macnab
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ÂIt Goes Without Saying,Â Bill BowersÂ zestful and endearing one-man show at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a classic story of growing up gay in an emotionally repressed 20th-century American family.
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Memory is a twisting knife in âFollies,â Stephen Sondheim and James Goldmanâs beautiful, broken-hearted musical from 1971.