Vanya on 42nd Street News

'As a student I'd always liked Malle best of the new wave directors ... I didn't work with him until 1992.

This Friday, two Pixar Animation classics, Toy Story and Toy Story , are joined together for a triumphant return to the big screen as part of two-week special engagement in Disney Digital 3-D. The double-feature marks the first time since 1995 that the original "Toy Story" has been available on the big screen, opening the experience to children who ...

Essays By Wallace Shawn Haymarket Books, 161 pages, $18.95. Reading Wallace Shawn's new collection of essays, it's hard not to hear his distinctive nasal chirp declaiming aloud in the mind's ear.

Paul decides to store his soul with the help of Dr. Flintstein in Cold Souls . Cold Souls Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, and David Strathairn Star in a Film Written and Directed by Sophie Barthes Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Faster than you can say "Paul Giamatti stars in a fiction film about Paul Giamatti, soul storage, and soul trafficking," the name ...

Louis Malle's directing career was notable for its diversity, as if powered by a will to make each film different from the one before.

Now that spring is here, can the end of the world be far behind? Two independent theatre companies in our bilingual city are offering a double take on our bleak and dreary existence, in both official languages.

Will American art-house moviegoers finally catch up to Chekhov? They didn't turn out in huge numbers even for Louis Malle 's glorious Vanya on 42nd Street .

Theater J, the Washington, DC, company devoted to Jewish voices and subjects, ends its current season with a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, here called The Seagull on 16th Street , opening June 21.

What kind of kid attends a book reading by Julianne Moore? A 7-year-old with a Robert Altman fetish? The first time you hear that Moore writes children's books, your reaction is mild, unsurprised a ' Huh, well, of course.

London's Royal Court Theatre has made this spring a Wallace Shawn season. In addition to showing Shawn's cult movies "My Dinner with Andre" and "Vanya on 42nd Street" , the theatre has staged his 1990 one-man show, "The Fever" , his 1985 play "Aunt Dan and Lemon," and Shawn's first new play in more than a decade, "Grasses of a Thousand Colors," in ...