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Can you imagine a chess book, written by a master, which contains exactly one chess diagram, and the notation of a single 17-move game? And that you would not be able to put it down? That is what happens with this unique work, written by chess master Asa Hoffmann, with his wife Ginny. Asa has spent a lifetime hustling game in the clubs, parks and streets of New York, and his account of his days there is absolutely compelling.

In real life, Nicolas Cage is having an extended moment. His indie drama “Pig” got rave reviews last year, a just-released book called “Age of Cage” articulates the importance of his long, eclectic career and the new movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is his first live-action starring role to receive a wide theatrical release in ages. Film critic Jesse Hassenger reviews.

The author of August: Osage County returns to Broadway with a play about small-town government.

If you set out to imagine the dullest possible setting for a play, you might come up with something much like the one Tracy Letts puts before you in &

NEW YORK — When I first saw Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” in 2017 in Chicago, director Anna D. Shapiro’s sizzling Steppenwolf Theatre production felt like a takedown of Donald Trump’s

This will be the Chicago company's first full season in its new expanded home.

The Chicago stalwart will also give a regional premiere to Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night .

The playwright also stars in his latest Broadway production, a dark-hued drama about a town council meeting

Small town governance? Tracy Letts’ play says we’re all beasts underneath.

In Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.