Silver-screen legends from the golden age of Hollywood enjoy reverential status in the history of show business. Nowadays, movies and TV are saturated with pseudo-celebs and even nonentities. But back in the halcyon days of the studio system and t...

I had never seen a production of Art, which caused quite a stir in New York and Los Angeles productions five years ago. So, much as one anticipates laying eyes on a well-known painting such as the Mona Lisa, I was looking forward to seeing, up clo...

Everyone has hurdles to overcome, but playwright Wendy Hammond really stacks the deck against her main characters in Julie Johnson. These Hoboken housewives not only have to deal with abusive partners, unruly kids, financial woes, and nasty smokin...