Arts & Culture

James Rasheed's comedy about misbehaving accountants deals with pre-Enron corporate corruption.

By Bill Marx

Wellfleet, MA –

Geoffrey O'Brien's new book charts the terrain for "Castaways of the Image Planet."

By Tim Riley

Boston, MA –

Twenty years ago, the stately "New York Review of Books" didn't deign to cover much pop culture, aside from analytic examinations of boxing (via Joyce Carol Oates) or the peculiar ruminations of John Updike on his crushes for such movie stars as Doris Day. The exceptions prove the rule: Joan Didion got a free pass on pop subjects, but that was because she turned in rigorous pieces on cultural politics.

Steven Spielberg's latest creation is an Oedipus story retold as a futuristic thriller.

By Stephen Metcalf

Providence, RI – Listen to Here and Now's review.

Hershey Felder's one-man homage chronicles the life and music of one of America's most successful songwriters.

By Bill Marx

Cambridge, MA –

A Broadway hit, "Wit" revolves around a female professor's tragicomic battle with cancer.

By Bill Marx

Providence, RI –

Samuel Johnson said that death concentrates the mind. In our touchy-feely age, mortality is also expected to do wonders for the heart. In our movies and plays, death provides more of a lesson in humility than a tussle with the spiritual.

The Perishable Theatre's Tenth Annual International Women's Playwriting Festival serves up three new plays about women in distress.

By Bill Marx

Providence, RI –

"Copenhagen" is an unlikely stage hit: it revolves around what two physicists remember about developing the atomic bomb.

By Bill Marx

Boston, MA –