A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Hollywood’s Woke Era Is Over. Now It’s Turning the Culture War Into Camp.
Hollywood used to be vexed by political debates. These days it turns both sides into frothy, cartoonish entertainment.
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Lamorna Ash Goes From a D.J. Set to Church, and Back Again
When the writer Lamorna Ash set out to explore young people’s relationship to faith and religion, she found herself questioning her own.
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Bahram Beyzaie, Filmmaker Who Led Iran’s New Wave, Dies at 87
Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning praise from luminaries like Martin Scorsese.
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How a Travel Writer Became Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Nemesis in ‘Marty Supreme’
For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected voyages.
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To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Question Filmmakers Can’t Resist
The Shakespearean monologue that is featured twice in “Hamnet” has long informed the movies, often in surprising ways that can make us rethink the words.
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Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts Want to Get Under Your Skin
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
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John Darnielle on His Favorite Books and Annotated Lyrics
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
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Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
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Cynthia Erivo on Her Favorite Books, “Wicked” and Her New Memoir
“I have to be still for a certain amount of time,” says the “Wicked” star and author of “Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much.”
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Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.
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Movies Written by Tom Stoppard to Stream
Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.