There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring classics as Private Lives and Hay Fever.

Executive producers Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, director James Ponsoldt and stars Byron Bowers and Josh Gad ...

Dog Man: The Musical fetches laughs, heart, and legit Broadway-level craft in a show that never talks down to its audience. The jokes land. The music slaps. And the Dog Man–verse insider bits fly fast ...

Nov. 23: There’s a new level of property tax rebellion this time. But it’s not all bad news. Scott Stantis editorial cartoon for Nov. 23, 2025, on the latest property tax bills. (Scott Stantis/For the ...

Creative mastermind Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” films have reinvigorated the ensemble murder mystery. As clever as they are entertaining, 2019’s “Knives Out” and 2022’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out ...

When I was in my early teens, I was both a devout churchgoer and an avid reader of mysteries. One of my favorite writers was P.D. James, whose Anglican faith informed her fiction in subtle ways. For ...

A small Texas town finds itself under stealth assault in Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman’s supernatural-mystery feature. Her brother Lucas (William Magnuson) has called Lynn from their late parents’ ...

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Rian Johnson’s third “Knives Out” mystery is out in theaters and will soon be streaming on Netflix. As a pop culture complementary piece, “Wake Up Dead Man” finds itself in an old small town chapel ...

Nine years ago, a little show called Stranger Things debuted on Netflix and captured the attention of the world with its winsome ’80s nostalgia, grounded action, and charming cast of mostly ...

There are photographs from the Vietnam War era that have become as iconic as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima or the inferno aboard the Hindenburg. One is the execution by handgun of a Viet Cong captain ...

Good news for the holiday season: Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, with both hair and accent appropriately shaggy. Rian Johnson’s Southern-flavored detective, who solved wickedly clever crimes ...