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 ...

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 ...

On her upcoming Ultrasound world tour, Lorde is playing major venues like New York’s Madison Square Garden and Inglewood’s Kia Forum. Lorde seems to admit, though, that she was hesitant to go for ...

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 ...

Everyone was feeling the melodrama back in 2017, including Taylor Swift. On the sixth anniversary of her sophomore album’s release, Lorde revealed how her close friend Swift responded to Melodrama. In ...

Corruption. Wealth. Authoritarianism. Torture. These are the words many people associate with Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda. But in 1965, on the day of ...