It’s still difficult to think of going to an animated film as a trip to bummersville, even when “Bambi” makes us cry, Ralph Bakshi skeevs us out, or Don Hertzfeldt turns stick figures into avatars of ...

Rarely is a white audience afforded a lucid and freewheeling response to the deluge of indignities blacks still endure. Instead, reaction to the barrage of stereotypes embodied in many Tyler Perry ...

Often a haven for the most groundbreaking theater, music and dance in the Southland, Royce Hall isn’t exactly “Nutcracker” territory. Indeed, no production of the Christmas classic has been seen there ...

In George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 satire “Arms and the Man,” romantic notions of soldiering smack into the violent reality of combat. And the same goes for romance itself, where idealized, good-on-paper ...

Ah, togetherness! As the reassuring title of Tom Lehrer’s contemplation of nuclear annihilation puts it, “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” That jolly singalong, written in 1958, anticipated by ...

It’s common knowledge that some serious problems plague the MBTA. Now a local theater production is trying to give harried commuters some comedic relief. They are staging a satiric musical called “T: ...

This hilarious novel by comedian Julia Langbein is also about something serious: a young woman trying to have her voice heard and find her place in a world that seems bent on diminishing her. This ...

At the beginning of “The Red Chapel,” the 2010 exposé of North Korean society directed by Danish comedian Mads Brügger, the filmmaker establishes his ruse from the outset, swiftly enunciating his ...

If the gossip columnists have it right, Britney Spears has reconsidered striking a pregnant pose, a la Demi Moore, on the cover of Vanity Fair. But in the mind — and on the blog — of a wickedly snarky ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures while speaking in San Francisco in September. Women’s rights advocates are criticizing him for vetoing a workplace protection bill. AP file This week in the world ...