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Barbara Maier Gustern was pushed to the ground outside her Manhattan apartment building by a woman who remains at large.

To celebrate the release of 'My Cousin Vinny' 30 years ago, the cast and crew discuss how the iconic film was made.

Theaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.

If you haven’t seen "She’s Funny That Way," and you probably haven’t, then you’re in for both a treat and a retreat into the world of Old Hollywood farce in the spirit of Sturges and Lubitsch.

The Park Theatre, 19 Main St. in Jaffrey, will present a special screening of the Warner Bros. comedy “Whats Up Doc?” as a tribute to the late filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who died Jan. 6 at the age of 82. The movie will be shown Sunday, Dec. 16 at 2...

The death of the director Peter Bogdanovich caught me by surprise and saddened me yesterday. The New York Times obituary by Margalit Fox captures something of the vagaries of his life and career. In my memory he will always be the boy wonder who arrived seemingly out of nowhere with the brilliant black and white throwbacks The Last Picture Show (with the unforgettable performances of Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman)

Jack Serio directs Rita Kalnejais' drama.

The production by Ruth Stage has moved plans for the revival to Summer 2022.

Meryl Streep strikes me as one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Also one of the great actresses, but her down-to-earth quality is what struck me in "Theater of War," a documentary about the Public Theater's 2006 production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in Central Park. She rehearses, she works with the composer, she never raises her voice, she endures full-dress rehearsals during a heat wave. The only complaint she has is that ...

If you see “Drive My Car,” which you should, you might be curious about Anton Chekhov. He's the writer everyone’s wrestling with in rehearsal, and in spirit, as they go about their Chekhovian lives.