For all its faults, for the most part, Jon Gunn’s “The Unbreakable Boy” doesn’t sugarcoat these challenges and others that ...

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Flying high in one of the world’s most male-dominated film industries, Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu follows up her ...

By Nicolas Niarchos A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer ...

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Carson City’s Proscenium Players present Seven Keys to Baldpate, the outlandish, melodramatic, locked-room mystery at the Brewery Arts Center, transporting audiences back to a time when ...

California’s Central Coast has lots of venues for performing arts, plays and concerts — including The Great American Melodrama Theatre, which has staged productions for 50 years on the ...

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