John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” was first produced in 2004, near the zenith of the long-lasting crisis over abusive priests hiding in plain sight in the Catholic Church. At the time, it felt like a ...

In the roughly six months after Doubt: A Parable premiered off-Broadway in 2004, the play swept the Tony Awards and won its author, John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Arriving amid a ...

(RNS) — “The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy,” explains the Wizard of Oz, played by Jeff Goldblum, in “Wicked,” the new movie version of Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel ...

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.

War and Peace. When a massive novel is adapted for the stage, what the playgoer almost invariably sees is the skeleton of the book and the embryo of a play. A sense of events and characters killed for ...

Three brothers set off on a journey—each choosing a different path, each moving at his own pace. Their choices shaped their experiences, their struggles, and ultimately, their satisfaction with the ...

The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period — a sneaky-smart way of nodding to one of this pastel-colored ...