Aimé is a Haitian construction worker and poet played by acclaimed actor Jimmy Jean-Louis (left), who meets Sonia, a wealthy white Dominican widow portrayed by actress Mercedes Morales. Love, loss, ...

Before we get down to business, I have a confession to make: I wrote two whole paragraphs of the story you’re reading right now, calling the film “Reminders of Him” by the wrong name. That also means ...

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral ...

Music rang out this weekend in Oceano as The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville theater closed out the second week of its 50th Anniversary Spectacular. The community theater has been operating on ...

In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret from the past ...

The history of the Santa Fe Melodrama is a long and storied one, dating back almost the full century that the Playhouse has been around. Over that time, audiences have come to expect the usual stock ...

Baz Luhrmann once said, “All good, clean stories are melodrama; it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.” He should know: The director is the king of melodrama, from the ...

As a woman suffering the cruelties of what appears to be Alzheimer’s disease, desperately trying to recall the lost memories of her life’s great love, the veteran stage actor Maryann Plunkett gives a ...

In May 2021, Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, burst to life without warning. Lava erupted from fissures and flowed down the mountain toward cities below, leaving ...

2021 was another remarkable and demanding year for the Transparency International movement. As the pandemic continued to disrupt and reshape global affairs, our international secretariat, chapters and ...

Music contains so many multitudes that sweeping generalizations about it rarely ring true, but this one still does: There are few things more exciting than an excellent debut album. It’s a thrill to ...