Olivia Williams

When two characters in a Neil LaBute play head into a forest — dark and deep or otherwise — one does not anticipate either an enjoyable stay or an easy exit for either party. But the latest LaBute drama, now in its American premiere at the...

Neil LaBute is a playwright who keeps on giving to the storefront Chicago company Profiles Theatre. Profiles announced Tuesday it has received permission from LaBute to stage the U.S. premiere of his two-character play, "In a Forest, Dark and Deep,"...

For Bill Murray, playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the new film “Hyde Park on Hudson” meant risking some serious derision. Now 62, Murray carries with him a huge recognition factor thanks to a host of comedies: "Stripes," "Caddyshack,"...

The music’s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient “Hyde Park on Hudson,” starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood,...

The events of the film Hyde Park on Hudson are seen through the eyes of Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), neighbor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams). In June 1939, FDR and Eleanor hosted the king...

On Demand DVD New Releases April 8-14 highlights include Bill Murray in a Golden Globe award-nominated role as FDR and Laura Linney as the president's cousin Daisy in Hyde Park on Hudson, James Gandolfini and Famke Janssen in Down the Shore, Kevin...

The most promising new shows this fall are on cable. HBO's stunning gangster drama “Boardwalk Empire” arrives in two weeks. FX's terrific “Terriers,” debuts at 10 p.m. Wednesday. “Terriers” is a quirky, modern private-...

Clint Eastwood was surrounded by old friends Sunday evening as he accepted the Tolerance Award at the first Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival. "I'm 80," Eastwood said. "I wouldn't normally admit that, except that Eli [Wallach]'s here, and...

Starring role: As reported in Culture Monster after the Emmy awards in August, Matthew Fox, formerly of the hit series "Lost," will star in the London production of Neil LaBute's "In a Forest, Dark and Deep." Olivia Williams ("The Ghost......

In a remote snowy forest in the far north, a figure in camouflage stalks a reindeer with bow and arrow. An arrow flies, the deer tumbles off across a lake to die an agonizing death. But the hunter, a teenage girl , gives chase. “I just missed your...

Live chat with playwright-filmmaker Neil LaBute on Feb. 2...

Rather than merely doing an impersonation, Bill Murray makes a surprisingly credible Franklin Delano Roosevelt in director Roger Michell's ("Notting Hill") portrait of the president during a weekend visit from British royalty (Samuel West, Olivia Colman)...