In playwriting and fiction, we call it deus ex machina – literally, the “god out of the machine” – which has come to mean a miraculously happy or fortuitous ending to a long and agonizing drama.

Aeschylus, 480 BC Democrats have a long history of maintaining control over the middle class by rewriting history. By ...

It has been a busy winter for numerous indie theater companies in Salt Lake City. The Utah Review offers reviews of three ...

What is it about William Shakespeare that makes people so eager to mess about with him? Never content merely to reduce, ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

A major London retrospective of Jacques Rivette’s work over half a century offers cinephiles a precious opportunity to watch his masterful, enigmatic 13-hour epic Out 1 on the big screen.

He corners me for hours at a stretch to ask me such questions as, “But, Mr. Marx, don’t you feel that Pinero was undoubtedly influenced by Aeschylus?” I’m all a-twitter when he tells me he ...

Father Brown season 12’s latest episode will see a murder investigation underway following an unexpected death among a group of writers.

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