A Streetcar Named Desire (movie)

"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" "I'm calling you crazy, crazy," a woman says to the ramshackle excuse of a man who has caught her eye at the bar. "What you don't know is, I'm crazy too." She's also drowning in a stew of guilt and loneliness, which is...

Like every other form of art, operas can be inspired by just about anything — historical events, myths, epic poems, plays, even movies. Often, such operas go on to eclipse their inspiration. Puccini's "Tosca," derived from a play by Victorien...

Hollywood makes movies, of course, but just as important — or maybe more so — it makes stars. But as Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr argues in “Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame,” the manufacture and maintenance of...

[This post has been updated.] "Family Guy" on Fox gave its satirical regards to Broadway on Sunday in a new episode in which Brian and Stewie face off as rival playwrights battling for supremacy in the Griffin household.  Sunday's episode featured...

The period from the new year through the end of March invariably includes some of the most highly anticipated events of Chicago's classical music season. Here are 10 such events, listed in chronological order: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo...

Writer/director Lee Breuer, a founding co-artistic director of the New York-based experimental theater company Mabou Mines, explores the work of Tennessee Williams in a workshop production of "Glass Guignol: the Brother and Sister Play" Saturday, Feb....

The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...

Andrew Upton is staying on at the Sydney Theatre Company, assuming the position of sole artistic director starting in January. For the last four years, Upton and his wife, actress Cate Blanchett, have served as co-artistic directors of Australia's most...

On the surface, Cate Blanchett would seem to be the least Chekhovian human being on the planet. No idle longing for Moscow for this international stage and screen star, whose frequent flier mileage must have broken the million mark since she and her...

Here is the full list of Tony nominations for 2012 (WINNERS are noted): Play "Clybourne Park,"  Bruce Norris WINNER "Other Desert Cities,"  Jon Robin Baitz "Peter and the Starcatcher,"  Rick Elice "Venus in Fur,"  David Ives Musical "Leap of Faith"...

Think of striking oil in your own backyard and you'll have the perfect metaphor for "Enlightenment.com," the second and final offering of Vanguard University's professional arm, the American Coast Theater Company. The playwright, Warren Doody, has taught...

— Is it any wonder that a city renowned for its lofty skyscrapers has created a stunning park in the sky? The High Line Park, a 1930s-era elevated rail line, has been transformed into vibrant green space, perched some 30 feet above Manhattan. There...