There is nothing inherently wrong with movie and TV stars being big draws on Broadway, necessitating current top ticket prices of 140 bucks or so, along with seats in the mezzanine that are so narrow they make you feel morbidly obese.

This is nothing necessarily improper with any of this,...

Full indecent disclosure.

I cannot be impartial in describing the Firesign Theatre. I cannot be definitive. And I am not responsible, for those familiar with these four owners of vast tracts of comedic surreal estate in recordings, video, film, and the stage would...

Actor-playwright Tracy Letts, if he writes for another 40 years, will never exceed the wild commercial success of his play August: Osage County, which has just had its national tour reach the Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center. Its sold-out run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, where Letts cut...

Athol Fugard is a novelist, actor, director and first and foremost, one of the great playwrights in the world today. His roots in the Karoo, the arid, topographically unique landscape of South Africa, deeply inform his work. Fugard's compassion for his characters is laced with a rage against the injustice...

Months before he won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for The Fog of War, I was fortunate enough to interview Errol Morris for the first time, for Entertainment Today. Our one-on-one and his film shifted the rage I felt toward Robert McNamara to something more akin to sympathetic revulsion....

The 2009 version of the Palm Springs International ShortFest and Short Film Market is concluded and, as the largest festival of its kind in North America, press more easily can navigate the 315 films via not only the programs at the Camelot Theatre multiplex but their film library, abuzz...

Virtually no one in American film dares to do bleak political satire anymore. It's hard to nail the right tone in such an endeavor. And when filmmakers do, everyone compares them to the impossibly high standards set by Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or the...

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International. The anniversary is being saluted with a major film festival in Los Angeles and New York: June 11 - July 31. Huffington...

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International. The anniversary is being saluted with a major film festival in Los Angeles and New York: June 11 - July 31. Huffington...

Thursday night saw one of the grand set-pieces of this year's Mods & Rockers Film Festival - a 40th anniversary reunion celebration of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Brad Schreiber reports on the event.

Meeting the challenge of the highly-publicized 40th anniversary...

The Mods & Rockers Film Festival presented a free open-air concert on Sunday followed by a set of films that transported revellers back to Swingin' London circa 1966-1967. Writer Brad Schreiber took a ticket to ride. (He...

Martin Lewis as producer of the Mods & Rockers Film Festival is that perfect British admixture of well-spoken decorum and borderline lunacy. As he reopened the cranium of his brainchild at the Egyptian last night, a full crowd of Beatle-maniacs of all...