The following text is adapted from a keynote address given to the recipients of the 2017 Whiting Awards for emerging writers. When my mother’s mother began to die of a mysterious, undiagnosable ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls. By ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Parul Sehgal “Everywhere there is cholera, everywhere ...

What do Clint Eastwood, who transformed from cowboy to cantankerous old man, and Marilyn Monroe, who transcended the blond bombshell stereotype, have in common? Both have the teachings of Michael ...

Movies are filled with tropes, those sometimes overused plot devices that we can see coming from a mile away. Sometimes it comes off as lazy, other times we are misdirected in such a way that we might ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Theatre is presenting “Funny Chekhov,” the lighter side of Chekhov with a selection of his short, comedic one act plays. Performances are scheduled for Feb. 22-24 ...