theater
AP Likes Ferrell’s Bush Show

    AP has distributed a strongly positive review of Will Ferrell's ne...

theater
Ferrell to Show Bush One More Time

  Comedian Will Ferrell is going to the well one more time—some might say ...

theater
‘Screwtape’ Play Captures Brilliance of Lewis Book

      The theatrical drama The Screwtape Letters captures th...

manners-and-morals
Yes, There Really Is a World Air Guitar Championship….

A new competition proves Americans aren't the only ones with too much time on our hands.&n...

theater
The Ghost of Stalin in a New Staging of ‘Macbeth’

A new production of Macbeth shows that innovative stagings of classic plays sometimes work...

movies
David Mamet Swings to the Right

TAC correspondent Michael D'Virgilio analyzes the cultural implications of the political j...

music
Physical Beauty in Opera

If "Sexing Up Opera," as a Chicago-area Daily Herald article puts it, were a gim...

commerce
“Superbad” Opens Big

 The raunchy coming-of-age comedy Superbad opened big at the box office this past wee...

theater
A Disco Nativity

Who knows but that a disco Nativity is just the thing that might bring the Gospel message ...

theater
Making Fun of Muslim Politics

A sign of hope for the UK: a group of jesters at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has put on ...

genres
Billy Wilder’s “Witness” and the Pleasures of Genre Fiction

A commenter going by the cybernom of Pascal Fervor has made some interesting and  pro...

omniculture
A Fascinating New Sport . . .

Another item in our Everything Happens in the Omniculture series: professional pillow figh...

manners-and-morals
The Bane of Conservative Cultural Criticism

The Achilles heel of most conservative cultural critics is their tendency to characterize ...

movies
Mozart in the Trenches

In our ongoing Everything Happens in the Omniculture department, British filmmaker Kenneth...

omniculture
Obliterating Cultural Distinctions: Shakespeare at the Fringe

Shakespeare in a bouncy castle, or moon walk, is the Reuters writer's pick for zaniest Sha...

commerce
Depp, Burton to Make “Sweeney Todd” Film

Actor Johnny Depp and writer-director Tim Burton will combine their eccentric talents on a...

commerce
NYC Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival opens today in the city that never sleeps, kick...

commerce
Fringe Phenomena in the Omniculture

Another hugely successful "fringe" phenomenon (see my Lollapalooza post immediat...