Spontaneity can be fun, but not when you’re looking for last-minute Broadway tickets. Making the trek to Times Square with your favorite show in mind only to find that you have very little ...

In Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller, a tense confrontation between Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) becomes all the more tense with the use of a medium long ...

“Giallo” translates to “yellow” in Italian, but it means far more in the context of cinema. Inspired by the pulpy crime novels with yellow covers of the late 1920s, giallo films merge the ...

Who doesn’t love a love triangle? They’re sexy, funny, painfully human, and filled with tension-laden drama—and when onscreen chemistry shines, you can’t look away. The storytelling trope ...

When Ridley Scott’s “Alien” debuted in 1979, it changed the game for sci-fi horror films. The extraterrestrial-themed movie, written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, transformed aliens ...

Contrary to its name, a greenroom isn’t a room that’s painted green. (Well, it can be, but it’s not a requirement.) It’s also not a secret space where actors turn into green-with-envy ...

Tyler Joseph Ellis had the misfortune of graduating from the University of Southern California in the spring of 2020. Ah well, he thought, so much for that newly minted theater degree and that ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

A crashing chandelier, a turntable barricade, a life-size helicopter—if these dazzling set pieces evoke misty, water-colored memories of “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Misérables ...

“Is this thing on?” That’s the now-clichéd and oft-parodied phrase used in entertainment to depict a soundcheck for a live event. But the reality of it involves a whole different set of ...

When the BBC’s BAFTA-winning “Peaky Blinders” wrapped up its six-season run in 2022, there were immediate conversations about a potential film follow-up. Now, after a few years of ...