When you hear the name Ava Gardner, perhaps you envision an image of her in a black satin dress, her hair falling across her face in a sultry fashion. Or maybe you conjure snapshots of her painting the town red with Frank Sinatra. Their tempestuous relationship, which ended Sinatra’s first......
On and off camera, actors Ginnifer Goodwin and Allen Leech are extremely charming people. When they're together, the effect is magnified. This shouldn't be a big surprise — Goodwin rose to fame playing a literal Disney princess (Snow White/Mary Margaret) on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Leech stole hearts......
With an endless stream of bad — or, at best, confounding — news monopolizing our every waking hour, it's safe to say we could all use a laugh. In fact, there's quantifiable evidence that's the case: Saturday Night Live's ratings are the best they've been in two decades and late-night TV......
When Linda Park takes on the role of Maggie the Cat in Antaeus Theatre Company's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she'll be the first Asian woman to ever portray the character in a professional production. “It was both a dream role, and something that I never thought would......
For fans of Downton Abbey, one of the period drama's primary delights was its sartorial offerings — deliciously decadent beaded gowns, ornate hats, the particulars of Edwardian white tie and the proper uniform for a lady’s maid. Those still suffering from Downton withdrawals nearly a year after the final season......
It’s a hazy and peculiarly bright Sunday afternoon, a 70-degree day when the quality of the light, if not the thermometer, tells you it's winter in Southern California. A group of musicians, actors, playwrights and singers gathers in the living room of a Silver Lake condo whose fuchsia walls echo......
From the moment Broadway and television star Matthew Morrison saw Gene Kelly on the silver screen as a kid, he knew what he wanted to do with his life. “You’re either an Astaire guy or a Gene Kelly person ... Gene Kelly was the proletariat, the working man," Morrison explains......
From the corsets, petticoats and hip-hop beats of her Broadway debut as Eliza Schulyer Hamilton in the smash hit Hamilton to the cobbled streets of Paris as the shy, whimsical Amelie in a new musical based on the 2001 French film of the same name, Phillipa Soo has had one......
With Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, a new anthology, editor David Kukoff seeks to engage with and push beyond the cliches about 1970s Los Angeles....