The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the mic may prove to be even more powerful than the written word. Read more...

There are certain stories, such as the battle at Troy or the impossible love of Romeo and Juliet, that audiences watch over and over even though they know exactly how they will end. Read more...

As soon as the last horse race finished at Hollywood Park on May 9, the excited crowd hurried over to a makeshift stage to the side of the track. Read more...

Two households, both alike in dignity, in punk-rock Berlin, where we lay our scene, Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers leaves courtly Verona to inhabit gritty 1980s Germany. Read more...

With a sophisticated humor, David Mamet captures a slightly older audience with his “Two Unrelated Plays,” a fitting title for the two one-act plays showing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre until June 8. Read more...

This weekend, I watched what has to be my favorite movie of 2008 thus far. Read more...

In the 1960s, blues rocker Janis Joplin turned the music industry upside down with her soulful ballads, becoming the emblem of San Francisco rock and the hippie movement. Read more...