Michael Kilian

Is this a time to be messing with the minds of Islamic clerics by staging a satirical play about religious death edicts? Indian-born Anuvab Pal, now an American businessman and...

Of all the reasons for an actor to go to Hollywood, I have this summer heard perhaps the strangest. "I need to actively pursue more film work," said New York...

The skyscraper does have a future, but it may have nothing to do with being the world's tallest building. New York's Museum of Modern Art has opened "Tall Buildings," an...

To paraphrase the great Leo Tolstoy, all middle-class families are alike; every rich family is rich in its own way. Consider the way slammer-bound Martha Stewart has been rich. Her...

It's an illness that can announce itself with screams in the night. Or, there might be slow withdrawal from the world into delusion and even catatonic trances. It can involve...

Saving the best for last, the capital's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is concluding its summer-long Tennessee Williams festival with his saddest and at times funniest play, "The Glass...

Impressionism has always been such a French thing, don't you know. Chicago's grandly wealthy but secretly bohemian society queen Bertha Palmer was a passionate Anglophile (King Edward VII and Oscar...

Black people are loud in restaurants, tend toward criminal behavior, have ridiculous names, are promoted beyond their level of competence and invented barbaric rap music. White people are inherently racist,...

Grace Kelly has returned to New York. It's only in a photograph, but it's a spectacular one. The setting is one of those grand saloons (as opposed to salons) wherein...

One of the most challenging roles for any performer is the wrenching transition from major movie star to mere actor or actress. It's a continuing phenomenon, as the megamillion likes...