Opera's future needs more than its past. Lyric Opera's world premiere "Proximity," a stimulating mashup of three different one-act works, is Chicago's latest proof.
Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere of "The Factotum" is a hit in the city where it's set. This is "The Barber of Seville" meets "The Barbershop."
Families could do a lot worse this holiday season than to take out a home equity loan for a bucket of multiplex popcorn and take in "Mary Poppins Returns," director Rob Marshall's hectic seq…
When the Glasgow-born filmmaker Lynne Ramsay adapts a novel, she does what any responsive writer-director must. She listens to what speaks to her, personally, in the material, and creates co…
What's the going rate for a Spacey-ectomy? Ten million dollars isn't all the money in the world, but it's a lot. And it's the amount director Ridley Scott's backers paid to remove Kevin Spac…
"You know," Blair Brown says, her hand on a glass of foamy green tea she acknowledges looks like "pond scum," "it never occurred to me that I'd ever do television or film. When I was startin…
In "99 Homes," 41-year-old Michael Shannon gives his latest fiercely accomplished performance as an Orlando real estate broker whose name, Rick Carver, indicates a knife-like ability to slic…
In "99 Homes," 41-year-old Michael Shannon gives his latest fiercely accomplished performance as an Orlando real estate broker whose name, Rick Carver, indicates a knife-like ability to slic…
A new Stephen Sondheim song is news. Now on DVD and Blu-ray, the film version of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical "Into the Woods" features among its bonus content a new Sondheim so…
Wasson goes beyond the razzle-dazzle in his evocative biography of Bob Fosse "Bob Fosse was the best thing ever to come out of burlesque, and he would pay for it forever," Sam Wasson writes…