Aimé is a Haitian construction worker and poet who is played by Jimmy Jean-Louis and meets Sonia, a wealthy white Dominican widow portrayed by Mercedes Morales. Andrés Farías Love, loss and cultural ...

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, ...

Omaha Community Playhouse gets ready for 'Titanic the Musical' during a rehearsal on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Cue the popcorn throwing. Hissing and booing are encouraged. St. James and St. Elizabeth Ann ...

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 ...

The Melodrama Theatre's annual "Holiday Extravaganza" opens later this month continuing a Central Coast tradition. This year's Holiday Extravaganza features a Christmas Carol, a Fairytale Opera, and a ...