In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of ...

Once upon a time—this time, in fact, and many of the ones that came before it—there was a story that never grew dull in its telling. It possibly leaped the porous cultural and national borders of ...

If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton's 'Here in Avalon' provides ...

Once upon a time, the NCAA tournament was all about fairy tales. It was when logic flew out the window, nobodies became darlings of March and tiny universities from places you’ve never heard of ...

An unusually varied spring season is in store for local theater devotees, who will be able to see a classic play, a ...

When I started as a drama critic in 1980, I learned how little I knew about how the theater business actually works.

So we didn’t do that this time." According to Zegler, the biggest problem with Snow White—a timeless fairy tale that has lasted ... uplift and bring hope. Once upon a time, Disneyland ...

Florence and Ed Clark who opened Clark’s in 1928 as a roadside attraction and originally featured Eskimo sled dogs, before purchasing their first black bear in 1931. Their sons, Edward and Murray, ...

Broadway’s 2024-25 season has gotten off to a rather extraordinarily fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful ...

In that most compelling of autobiographies Father and Son, Edmund Gosse tells of how works of fiction were not admitted into his parents’ stern Plymouth Brethren household: Never in all my early ...

From Jake Gyllenhaal's Donnie Darko to Keanu Reeves' Point Break, YouTube's library of free movies has something for everyone ...

A fantasy patched together from books (in my case ... when I moved to New York in the 1970s did not match that fairy tale. The neighborhood was blighted by prostitution, porn, and drugs; the ...