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A surprising choice for a commander-in-crops

William Oldroyd's enthralling adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's novel swerves toward the unexpected

The Bodyguard star will appear in a new play as part of Michael Longhurst's last season at the Donmar.

The poet pays homage to Chekhov in her second collection, in which boredom is both feared and acknowledged<em> </em>and desperation tussles with wit

The same conflict that ended Kevin McCarthy’s tenure created chaos in October and elevated Mike Johnson — but the underlying conflict remains unresolved.

Director Andrei Malaev-Babel explains why Checkovian drama isn’t all whining and moping.

Sunset Boulevard is a re-telling of the Oedipus story set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood. Pick a side in this tortured yarn. There’s Norma, a burned-out sex-goddess, who wants to make a comeback as a teenage ballerina in a dance epic. Or there’s Joe, a penniless scribbler, who becomes Norma’s reluctant toyboy while he

Theater Review: ‘DruidO’Casey,’ a six-hour-plus marathon of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin plays at the Skirball Center at NYU.

"In the South Donetsk area, the eastern battlegroup, supported by artillery and aviation, repulsed an attack of two groups of enemy infantry in the direction west of Novodonetskoye and four attacks in the direction of Priyutnoye," Eastern Battlegroup Spokesman Oleg Chekhov said

To me, George Saunders is one of our best, and most brilliant, “Catholic” writers (without calling himself, or for all I know, even being a Catholic).