Geffen Playhouse’s 2025-26 season has Athol Fugard and Pearl Cleage plays
So far, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s inaugural season at the helm of the Geffen Playhouse has spanned a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size,” a co-production…
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel laureate, dies at 89
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He…
Lost Lionesses play ‘is coming home’ to Bedfordshire, writer says
Alex PopeBBC News, BedfordshireLloyd McDonaghThe Lost Lionesses is being performed in Bedford after a successful run in LondonA theatrical production about the rebellious, unofficial England…
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ and writer Marco Ramirez debut on Broadway
Officially, playwright and screenwriter Marco Ramirez began working on the Broadway musical “Buena Vista Social Club” a little more than six years ago. But if…
Top ITV Emmerdale writer told partner he would kill her then ‘chop up her face’ in horrific abuse campaign
AN EMMERDALE script writer narrowly escaped jail after he suffocated his terrified girlfriend - and threatened to "chop her up".Vile Martin Fustes, 47, spat in…
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard bore witness to apartheid
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the…
Guest writer: President Trump came through for Los Angeles
As the Eaton and Palisades fires raged in Los Angeles, more than a few Democrats and at least one Times columnist claimed President Trump would…
Why Israelis and Palestinians should read each other’s poetry
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are…
Chappell Roan responds to writer who criticized her Grammy speech
Chappell Roan challenged the author of an op-ed critical of her speech at the Grammy Awards to match her in donating $25,000 to “struggling dropped…
Sundance 2025 photos: Juliette Lewis, Questlove and more
PARK CITY, Utah — The 2025 Sundance Film Festival is officially underway, which means we’re back on Main Street documenting the actors, writers, directors and documentary…
Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones to star in new Netflix thriller from Missing You writer
Following the success of Missing You and Fool Me Once, the cast for the latest Netflix adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel has been announced…
Down but not out in ‘Hollywoodski’ with writer Lou Mathews
Lou Mathews is unequivocal in his devotion to Los Angeles and its environs. “I love it — and I don’t understand people who don’t,” says…
A culture that’s ready for a different kind of closeup
Book Review Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies By Manuel BetancourtCatapult: 240 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
Op-comic: What my 5-year-old taught me about the Velvet Underground
I set out to introduce her to my favorite band, but in the end she showed me what I had missed. Source link
'I'm a TV writer and these are my Christmas film top picks and where to watch them'
TV writer Jake Hackney has pulled together his favourite festive films from Disney+, Netflix, Sky and Amazon's Prime Video and how you can watch them…
Nikki Giovanni, poet and civil rights activist, dies at 81
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess…
‘Anora,’ “I Saw the TV Glow,’ ‘Shōgun’ lead Spirit Awards noms
Anyone looking for clarity regarding this year’s particularly diffuse and opaque awards season will likely not find it in the nominations for the 40th annual…
The ultimate holiday gift guide you need in Los Angeles
Credits Creative Director: Amy KingFeatures Editor: Brittany Levine BeckmanLead Gift Guide editor: Marques HarperProject editors: Jen Doll, Philip Gray (books), Betty Hallock (food), Michelle WooWriters:…
I’m a beauty writer – this £35 Bobbi Brown lipgloss trio should be at the top of your Christmas list
BOBBI Brown has launched its festive makeup collection - and I'm predicting mass sell-outs of the iconic gloss trio this Christmas.The £35 set of three…
Writer Extraordinaire Don Afrika Beukes, An African In London, Paris and Spain
AG: Do you believe in the power of writing by hand?DB: Most definitely. It is a surging energy almost electrical. For me, holding a pen…