When legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” first opened on Broadway in 1981, the results were quite disastrous. Critics thrashed the production and it closed after only two…
Darker and driven by grandiose feelings, “Wicked: For Good” concludes director Jon M. Chu’s stirring fantasy that, in the end, proves to have always been about the intricacies of friendship. Chu’s adaptation…
Art can be a matter of both survival and resistance. That understanding gives a timeless relevance to the “Kiss of the Spider Woman” novel by Argentine author Manuel Puig, who published it in…
Being a genius does not make life any easier, quite the opposite. Stories of great artists can be so compelling because of their pains and heartaches. Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” manages to…