Comedy should be taken just as seriously as tragedy, Associate Professor of English Benedict Whalen said at the Lyceum’s ...

It can seem heartless to talk about bringing a comedic sensibility to the treatment of something sad or traumatic. But the term comedy has technical meanings apart from the seriousness of the subject ...

It can seem heartless to talk about bringing a comedic sensibility to the treatment of something sad or traumatic. But the term comedy has technical meanings apart from the seriousness of the subject ...

Lenny Bruce was a comedian before he was a chapter in the history of American obscenity law. Because so much of his myth is wrapped up in matters that weren’t cause for laughter, it’s easy to forget ...

Sometimes people do crazy things after a breakup - in the movie world, really crazy, like scrubbing all memory of your ex from your mind, as happened in "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" ...

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven or thirty-eight plays (the exact number is debated), I've never stopped to count how many I've read, let alone ones I think are the best. Of his three play categories — ...

My father was an actor, and I myself was involved in theater. Besides school plays and performances, I had the privilege to perform in a couple of professional shows at the Papermill Playhouse in New ...

Alexander Howard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Horror is full of well-worn tropes that genre fans have come to expect. From doomed sexually active teens to the tried and true jump scare, we’ve seen it all. But some of these tropes aren’t so ...