Perhaps no television program is better remembered for silly, cheesy gags than Gilligan's Island . Yes, there's appeal in its warm ...

spoilers I step into a room built of cardboard boxes. At its center stand two tables, for cards and pool, and making my way between I inv...

I am not one of the pesky many perpetually scoffing at programmatic music for being "limited." Yet. . . in this one case ...

"At any time between 1750 and 1930 if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art, or music, they would have repli...

Directed by Al Pacino. 1996. Al Pacino walking around Manhattan asking people what they think about Shakespeare was not such a bad idea. ...

Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Shakespeare's Rome , leads a disc...

Last year we discussed in a pair of essays works of art which we said created the experience they depicted. We saw some which pulled the vie...

Selections from  Playing Shakespeare , a series of workshops conducted by John Barton, co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and feat...

One of the pleasures of getting on in years is getting to revisit art. How different a work can seem after more living. How much more truth...