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 ...

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.

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

AEschylus lived in that brief gleam of splendor between the war which made Greeks discover ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...