If you think a valentine is a message from the heart to someone special, and that someone special for you is Lawrence Ferlinghetti — considered by many to be the bestselling poet of the modern era — then...

It’s a strange phenomenon. When we try to grasp the reality of six million souls slaughtered during Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, the mind and heart grow numb, but when we let ourselves glimpse just two lives in...

The ancient Greeks believed an oracle was a kind of priestess that the gods spoke through. And there’s many an actor alive today that believe that their teacher, Stella Adler — arguably the most influential...

Ambitious, brilliant, challenging, daring, enlivening, formidable — you could go through all the letters of the alphabet and not exhaust the number of adjectives for his genius. His style and subject matter...

(Editor’s Note: Read on for an exclusive interview with American singer and actress Kirsten Holly Smith.)

Dusty Springfield, remember her — that sexy songstress of the swinging 60s and beyond that...

No artist was more aware of the power and pathos of the human body, its ability to evoke the most primal of emotions from us, than Alina Szapocznikow. It’s no surprise then, that the Museum of Modern Art’s expansive...

The Redgraves, Donald Spoto’s newest biography, is described as a “family epic.” And it is an epic story of sorts — a multi-generational band of actors, living out their lives on stage and off, with the fame...

Chasing one’s memories down the decades is a little like trying to catch butterflies in a snowstorm. You know they’re there — if you’re patient enough, persistent enough, you’re sure to capture something,...

From Ocean Park, California to Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, dreams come in many forms. Between wakefulness and slumber, the artist can find inspiration for his or her next creation. For West Coast abstract painter...

In Craig Wright’s play, Grace, currently premiering on Broadway, “Grace” is not an angry housewife set on mortal revenge. Rather, it’s a message-loaded melodrama of what can happen when two otherwise...