The Graduate (movie)

  Stefon received a deliriously wacky sendoff this weekend on "Saturday Night Live," the high point of the 38th season finale. New York correspondent Stefon (Bill Hader) revealed that he was getting married to someone who would treat him with more...

Patrons who supported The American Theatre in past seasons will find much to like in the 2013-2014 brochures that drop in their mailboxes in the coming week. The upcoming season offers a strong mix of the programming that has given this venue its unique...

Hollywood makes movies, of course, but just as important — or maybe more so — it makes stars. But as Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr argues in “Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame,” the manufacture and maintenance of...

Terry Johnson's theatrical adaptation of the American movie classic "The Graduate" will take the stage Friday, Feb. 1, at the new Rocking Horse Theater Factory. In case you never saw the 1967 film, or read the novel by Charles Webb, "The Graduate" tells...

A constant in Orlando is the shifting of theatrical venues. It's a time of transition for FantasyLand Theatrical Productions, which lost its lease at Pointe Orlando on International Drive. "We have already been in search of a newer home prior to...

Need someone to play a potty-mouthed, ex-alcoholic nun? An abusive, alcoholic wife of a college professor? A washed-up, alcoholic writer? Call Kathleen Turner, an actress who has made a career of hard-edged, in-your-face, booze-soaked roles. Now add...

While designing what is now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in the late 1960s, architects John Kelsey and Thornton Ladd expressed a belief: Space that houses art "can be part of the event and experience." When it opened in 1969 as the Pasadena Art...

Tony award-winning actress Elizabeth Wilson, and Branford resident, will receive the Jerome Lawrence Award at  the 31st Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, April 20 at Independence Community Collegein Kansas. Named for writer Jerome Lawrence, ("...

Buck Henry arguably made his showbiz debut at the age of 2, when his mother, the silent film star Ruth Taylor, took him to the Paramount lot to show him off. She denied then that she wanted him to go into movies. Sorry, Mom. Henry has become a polymath of...

More than a quarter century ago, the critic Robert Hughes called the public's response to Modern art "the shock of the new." The role of art was to stimulate ideas, provoke thought, challenge ways of seeing. Today, we are experiencing a different,...