The 2008 Broadway musical “Shrek” required its star Brian d’Arcy James to spend at least two hours in makeup to turn himself into the spitting image of the famed green ogre. To director Tina Landau’s ...

Literature, Rachel Eisendrath likes to tell her students, is “a history of retrospection.” In “Gallery of Clouds,” her divagating, fragmented meditation on Philip Sidney’s divagating, fragmented ...

Were “Book Club” an actual book, a page turner it would not be. The romantic comedy would be more of a lazy read – its plot developments range from sloppy to almost non-existent – but one with ...

The Mississippi River, even before Mark Twain spun his tales about the mighty waterway, has captivated countless people. More than anyone, perhaps, are those who've lived in the little "boathouses" ...

With the sudden closure of its store in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, used and rare bookseller Bedlam Book Cafe of Worcester had to rethink its business and shift to online platforms. Owner ...