Amadeus (movie)

Arriving this week on Seattle stages: a play partly written in Esperanto, a romp with J.S. Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists. 'Bach at Leipzig' This Itamar Moses farce...

Do you believe the oft-quoted axiom, "The book is always better than the movie?" The College of Southern Idaho's new class, "English 126: Film and Literature," will, among other things, try to figure out whether that claim is true. Some of the texts...

May 09 (TheWrap.com) - With apologies to Ernest Hemingway and "A Moveable Feast," you can call this one a Moveable Fest. The Czech That Film Festival, which begins five days of screening in Los Angeles on Friday, is a festival on the go, hitting three...

Choreographer Twyla Tharp, whose work spans ballet, modern dance, jazz and Broadway, is to receive a lifetime achievement honor during this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Tharp is scheduled to receive the honor at the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation...

Really, the violins' highest notes said it all. It's so easy for those upper-register sounds to come across as ragged, boarding on squeaky. But the violinists of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields showed how those notes can thrill in an engaging...

* (out of four) Following "Stoker" and last year's "Bernie," "Dead Man Down" marks the second time in two weeks and the third time in 10 months that a movie has featured a dead body in a freezer. Criminals need new storage ideas. Perhaps they'd enjoy a...

Mad Cow Theatre opens George Bernard Shaw's classic play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" on Friday, Feb. 8, in its Black Box theater. Written in 1893, the play was at first banned in London. After being performed at private clubs in the early 20th century,...

[This post has been updated.] "Family Guy" on Fox gave its satirical regards to Broadway on Sunday in a new episode in which Brian and Stewie face off as rival playwrights battling for supremacy in the Griffin household.  Sunday's episode featured...

This may come as a surprise, but the smart people responsible for Showtime's Emmy-winning "Homeland" could take a lesson from the gang behind "Jersey Shore." MTV's signature series will come to an end later this month, a mere three years (seriously,...

Milos Forman, 80, will receive the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction at the 65th annual DGA Awards on Feb. 2. The ceremony will be held at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby...

A memorial celebration to honor the life and career of Cheshire Connecticut native Ron Palillo, best known as Horshack on TV’s "Welcome Back, Kotter" will be ob Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. at The Triad Theatre, 158 West 72nd St. in New York....

BAY VIEW -- The Sunday Sunset Vesper Series at Bay View continues at 8 p.m. on Sunday, July 29, in Hall auditorium with a program called Epic Movie Themes, featuring composers that include John Williams, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Scott...