Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...

A full quarter century after the premiere of "Dead Man Walking" here on the War Memorial Opera stage, it's hard to overstate the impact that Jake Heggie's first major offering has had, both on his ...

Directed by Francis Lawrence, “The Long Walk” (2025) depicts a bleak dystopian post-civil war United States in which teenage boys volunteer to compete in a last-man-standing race of attrition in the ...

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With ‘Frankenstein,’ Guillermo del Toro has not just summed up his career to date, but created a definitive adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic.

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The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Season 3, Episode 3, "El Sacrificio," which premiered Sunday, September 21, on AMC.

It all starts with the script, and Variety has selected just 10 of the up-and-coming wordsmiths to celebrate in their ...

Before Kathryn Bigelow’s new thriller A House of Dynamite, the presidential home has played many parts: a house of conspiracy, a house of romance, even a house of divine ...

Megan Trussell went missing from CU Boulder in Colorado after a fight with her roommate, and authorities say she died by ...