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Cate Blanchett is Blanche in Liv Ullmann’s new production Despite her decades-long career on both stage and screen, actress Liv Ullmann has somehow never played the iconic role of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ “A...
One of India’s oldest English-language theatre groups, The Madras Players, turns to Pakistani literature for their latest production. When Girish Karnad in the 1960s worked as an actor, director and translator with The Madras...
It's a week full of film festivals, including the Seattle Polish Film Festival in America at Seattle Art Museum's Plestcheeff Auditorium, New Italian Cinema Festival at SIFF and Burning Fuse Film Festival at Grand Illusion.
NEW YORK - Sex, drugs, prostitution, pedophilia, rape: Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humour. But the acclaimed maste...
NEW YORK - But the acclaimed master of Spanish cinema - who claims he has gone so far as to demonstrate X-rated moves on an actress to show how he wanted it done on film - still maintains some modesty. In a recent interview in...
The werewolves have it all over the blood-suckers in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. What bogs down this tale of teenage Bella , her vampire beau Edward and werewolf buddy Jacob is the morose nature of Bella and Edward's romance....
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending A Life in the Theater - An Evening With Stephen Sondheim, which took place at the lovely Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Mass. The event comprised a conversation, of sorts, between...
DURING his lifetime George Baldessin was known for his prodigious artistic output, the ambiguous sensual narratives of his figurative prints and drawings, and the power of his sculptures. The sculptor, painter and printmaker...
The late Stan Brakhage slandered Ingmar Bergman by saying that the Swedish filmmaker made his films to elicit approval from U.S. art-house audiences and critics. Envious, the U.S. filmmaker expanded this lie by adding that...
Sweden's cultural heritage is virtually unknown outside the country's borders. Swedes should be better at using culture to promote their own country, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
