No one wrote about sex with more breathless comic verve than Preston Sturges, the ringmaster of 1940s screwball comedy. In “The Palm Beach Story,” Mary Astor, who plays a ditsy socialite, throws ...

Sebastien Lecornu’s resignation is not just another Parisian drama, says Sean O’Grady – it’s a warning that France’s political centre and Macron’s presidency are collapsing before our eyes ...

Farce, declares the Encyclopædia Britannica, is “a form of the comic in dramatic art, the object of which is to excite laughter by ridiculous situations and incidents.” I would go further: farce is ...

“Fake It Until You Make It” may be a farce, but no one was laughing about it 18 months ago. That’s because due to financial struggles, Center Theatre Group — for the first time since its first season ...

Opening night is always a high-stakes endeavor. But with Geva Theatre Center’s production of “La Cage aux Folles,” the stakes must have felt a little higher than usual on Saturday. It was the first ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Family lore isn’t just innocently passed down. It’s carefully scripted, ...

Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance - which until the 40's was called simply Humanisme et Renaissance - was founded in 1934 by Eugenie Droz and Abel Lefranc. The magazine quickly established ...

Danny Quintero stars as the title character in Amphibian Stage artistic director Kathleen Culebro's "The Amazing, Fabulous, and Spectacular Untruths of Juan Garcia." It's an adaptation of Spanish ...

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Quelle surprise? The French prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, has resigned only 27 days after he was appointed by President Macron. Without being unkind – it’s hardly his fault – his truncated ...