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In "On the Count of Three," the director explores depression and hopelessness.

Awoye Timpo directs a brilliant cast in a new production for Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.

The series opens May 13 with one of the two films for which Wong Howe won an Academy Award: Hud (1963), directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman.

Wandering the aisles of the long-abandoned, spider and bat-infested video store, the Phantom pauses in the section devoted to horror to consider, for your approval, 1982’s “Cat People.”

On May 1, 1886, the American Federation of Labor organized militant actions demanding the right of all workers to an eight-hour workday. On that day, workers walked off their jobs and withheld their labor from being exploited by the bosses. As Martha Grevatt, a WW managing editor and retired Chrysler…

A reprint of Roger Ebert's review of Do the Right Thing, with an introduction from Brenda Robinson.

Mr. Moore, who was of African American and Native American descent, was committed to preserving the past as a curator, author and savior of New York City landmarks.

John Weir's short story collection 'Your Nostalgia is Killing Me' is made of linked stories that span a 40-year period, illustrating the power of nostalgia to alternately bring us to tears and make us laugh with a familiarity.

TFANA will present Alice Childress’s Wedding Band. Director Awoye Timpo’s new staging, running April 23–May 15, brings Childress’s masterpiece to New York audiences for the first time since 1972, when it made its New York premiere in a production directed by Childress and Joseph Papp.

Heights Rotarians and their guests recently gathered at Saltgrass Steak House, 1803 Shepherd Drive, to host a “Why I Joined Rotary” reception for members and community-minded residents and business owners