Theater review: Guthrie’s ‘Midsummer’ is the Shakespeare of your dreams
New production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is an extraordinarily imaginative, disarmingly sincere and very funny love ...
‘Mona Acts Out’ Review: All Her Life’s a Stage
And there’s the dilemma—one of many in Mischa Berlinski’s witty, mournful novel “Mona Acts Out”: Six opioids will likely be insufficient to get Mona through this particular day. After all, it’s ...
Cozy up with a 'cozy mystery' this month
This month’s book recommendations from the Public Library are all cozy mysteries. Cozy mysteries feature amateur detectives normally solving crimes in small communities, and any sex or violence ...
Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
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The five best historical novels of all time, according to Jessie Burton
When Jessie Burton published The Miniaturist in 2014, it became the fastest-selling debut of the decade, shifting over a ...
UK university adds 220 trigger warnings to Shakespeare plays — including ‘popping of balloons’
If I was a University of the West of England drama student, I’d be furious about being treated like such a snowflake,” Free ...
Ian McEwan’s next novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ is science fiction ‘without the science’
The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s ...