The dark side of the screen

By Foster Hirsch

Laurence Olivier on screen

By Foster Hirsch

A Method To Their Madness

By Foster Hirsch

Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life: The Films Of Woody Allen

By Foster Hirsch

"Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur with the creation of such classic films as Sleeper, Annie Hall, and Hannah and Her Sisters, a...

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

By Foster Hirsch

"Since The Dark Side of the Screen first appeared two decades ago, when film noir was still a little-known group of dark, brooding postwar B movies, it has become the essential take on what has bec...

A Method To Their Madness: The History Of The Actors Studio

By Foster Hirsch

The Dark Side of the Screen

By Foster Hirsch

Show Boat

By Rita Balducci

Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1...

Show Boat

By Edna Ferber

The classic tale behind MGM’s blockbuster movie directed by George Sidney, starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Bringing to life the adventurous world of Mississippi show boats,...

Kurt Weill on Stage

By Foster Hirsch

"The words are by Bertolt Brecht. The music is by Kurt Weill. The song is "Mack the Knife," the number-one song of Weill's internationally famous Threepenny Opera, originally performed on a stage i...