John Donne

Traditionally, this is the time when we reflect on the past year's highs from a variety of stellar acting and musical performances by established local groups in Anne Arundel County. In 2011, we also welcomed two new theater companies of surprisingly high...

June Wayne, who helped pioneer a revival of fine-art print making in the 1960s when she founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, has died. She was 93. An accomplished artist in her own right, Wayne died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles...

Bay Theatre's season-opening production of Margaret Edson's "Wit" may be the most compelling theater experience in the company's 10-year history. By all critical standards, this show is a winner, starting with artistic director Janet Luby's selection...

The movies don't do romantic longing very well any more. It's trickier than it was in the old “An Affair to Remember” days, when love on the big screen had patience. But Felicity Jones will break your heart at least once in “Like Crazy.&...

'Wit' coming to Broadway with Cynthia Nixon...

National Endowment for the Humanities issues $40 million in grants, including $3.2 million to California museums, scholars and documentary filmmakers. Documentaries win the biggest grants; others sponsor seminars aimed to improve college and secondary...

FantasyLand Theatrical Productions at the Pointe Performing Arts Center (Ppac) has dubbed its upcoming 2012 season “Portraits of Life.” It's the second season for the company, which plans its seasons based on the calendar year. The season will...

James Franco is getting Oscar buzz for his leading-role, almost only-role turn in Danny Boyle's “127 Hours.” But the happy-go-lucky actor almost didn't land the part, playing Aron Ralston in a spiritual/survival ordeal in the Utah desert. &#...

As a boy, I wasn't much of a joiner. Although I knew many kids, I never aligned myself to one particular group. But as I think back 47 years I remember running with a bunch of guys from the gym where I boxed. We formed a club called The Knights. Many of...

Let's talk below about Thursday's episode of "Supernatural," "Two Minutes to Midnight." Now that's what I'm talking about. We got Death. We got Pestilence. We got brain-melting moral dilemmas for the Winchesters. We got Crowley snarking away. All that,...