Heidi Ewing

For all it’s seeming simplicity, the Wooster Group’s latest show is complicated, dense experience.  Let’s start with the  title: “The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State…

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp on the witchcraft at Five Car Garage.

When ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ showrunner dream hampton was conducting interviews with women who had been in the thrall of the infamous singer-songwriter, she had to choose her words.

Mary Ruefle reads the entirety of her glorious and gruesome essay about shrunken heads, the title essay in her book My Private Property.

Matthew Bourne’s “Cinderella” at the Ahmanson is fascinating as much for what it isn’t as for what it is.

The strange story of the postwar pop standard "Nature Boy" and its enigmatic creator, eden ahbez.

"Cold Pursuit” finds Liam Neeson once again in avenger mode—it’s a given that he’s recapitulating the spirit of “Taken.”

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp visits a survey at CSUN and at Edward Cella’s Gallery.

For his new film ‘Never Look Away,’ director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck spent weeks cozying up to German artist Gerhard Richter, whose remarkable life story inspired the movie.