Culture and Society

Blessed Unrest's adaptation of the controversial psychologist's "metaphorical memoir" delivers a powerful punch to both lobes of the brain.

Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.

Thank you, Mo’Ne Davis, because of you the meaning of the words “You throw like a girl” will never be the same again.

If you are a celebrity, should you go public that you have Alzheimer's or quietly retire from the spotlight and cope with the coming darkness and silence? Glen Campbell in keeping with his maverick and legendary career took on another momentous career bending move. He was the first celebrity to publicly reveal the Alzheimer's diagnosis. What he and his family decided to do next is nothing short of extraordinary. Their decision and their actions in the subsequent months to maintain their joy and richness of life is captured in James Keach's amazing and award winning documentary of Glen Campbell's. You will walk away uplifted from this authentic portrait of a family bonded together through a time of crisis. As for Glenn Campbell, the truism may remain that that one's waning years may actually hold more power and wonder than one's youth.

There are plenty of laughs in the show, and laughs have to be enough because there is little else.

In a nation where media hype is stirring anxiety about a very difficult-to-catch virus into near-panic, it's good to laugh, and especially good to laugh at our own fears.

Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson's characterizations are a reflection of us; they intimate future sinister developments of a broader cultural scope.

'Odd Birdz' combines a hint of vaudeville and a touch of the Marx Brothers with moments of zany 'Laugh-In'-era humor and a dose of performance-art archness.

To understand the potential severity of nonfatal injuries and how to respond to them after a car accident, take a look at a case study.

Many people believe that the condition of their spirit affects their health.