Oprah Winfrey has named her newest book club pick: "Little Wonder" by Sophie Chen Keller. It follows a mother, Song, and her son, River, who spend years searching for each other after they are ...

What a difference 50 years makes. The country that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July will be a radically different place than the country ...

Audiences are welcomed into a lively stage mastered by Jackie Donovan (Nancy Robinette), the probable* human narrator, for a debate on whether animal testing should be banned. In addition to combining ...

Arena Stage, in partnership with HEART: DMV AAPI Theatre Alliance, will host The Motion: In Conversation with Christopher Chen, a pre-show Q&A event with the playwright of THE MOTION. The event will ...

Cast and creative team are set for Arena Stage's upcoming production of Obie winner Christopher Chen's The Motion. The play, which journeys through memory, identity, and the fragile boundaries of ...

Aaron Chen found his comedic voice in Australia and a global audience thanks to Fisk on Netflix. Now living in New York City, Chen and his deadpan style of observational comedy reflects on his new ...

Christopher North, founding keyboardist for prog- and soft-rock standouts Ambrosia, has died. He was 75. Described in Ambrosia’s statement as the “Hammond B3 King” for his work on the instrument, the ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announced the names of the two outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights who will be celebrated with 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards in the amount of ...

The recipients of the 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards (the “Mimi” Awards), presented by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, are Christopher Chen and Zora Howard. The $100,000 award is ...

In this well-researched, rakish debunking of the many myths surrounding Christopher Columbus, Restall demonstrates that conspiracy theories, far from originating with modern social media, are ...