Like her sisters, she does have a backbone and, like them, she deserves so much more. Especially Masha, at 23 years old ...

How is snow in Nepal?” I heard H. ask. “In the Himalayas it must be beautiful.” It was early November, and we were in the lecture hall of Mr. Cohen. After a murmurous buzz, which usually precedes the ...

After early roles in ‘American Werewolf in London’ and ‘After Hours,’ the actor’s career rebounded as part of the cast of ...

Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize-winning novelist, was raised and lives in Tasmania. His new book, “Question 7” (Knopf, $28), ...

With a starry The Seagull opening soon at The Barbican, the peerless playwright is in vogue right now, his unstable worlds of ...

On the page, it’s not always obvious why the characters in “Uncle Vanya” are perverse enough to stay in the same room together. Sure, blood and economic codependency bind them, but if they drive each ...

Why did turn-of-the-20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov name “Uncle Vanya” after his play’s most unhappy, most aimless, most pitiful and ...

Chekhov sets the Globe alight A new production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters somehow shoehorns a whole world onto one ...

Season 3 of HBO's addictive black comedy anthology is finally here. Times writers will be unpacking the latest mystery each ...

If Shakespeare is the gateway drug for most of those interested in historical theatre, Moliere is often the next step on the ...

Big stars (George Clooney!) and daring writers will grace area stages with shows that escape or confront the current moment.

The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business ...