Mixed reviews didn't dissuade mass audiences from buying tickets to the "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie," which scored the biggest opening of the year for a Hollywood movie. The Illumination and ...

Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to. By Lisa Brown Lisa Brown is the author-illustrator of ...

Mike and Colleen Miller, who have operated the Music Box Supper Club for 12 years, are converting the event center-music venue into an Employee Ownership Trust to secure its future. The couple is ...

The Old Globe commissioned Fiasco Theater to create a new play based on Herman Melville’s 1853 short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." The result is a workplace comedy that proves some things never ...

In Herman Melville’s 1851 short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a hyper-efficient Wall Street clerk up-ends office norms by saying he’d “prefer not to” do any of the additional tasks his boss tries ...

There are few phrases in literature more quietly unhinged than “I would prefer not to.” And in Fiasco Theatre’s "Bartleby”, now playing at The Old Globe through March 22, that polite little sentence ...

Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” about a Wall Street lawyer’s clerk who decides to decline his duties with the words “I would prefer not to,” might not seem a natural fit for ...

Performances begin February 20, 2026, and are now extended through March 22, 2026, with the opening on Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys ...

Everyone loves a good thriller, but not everyone can define what a thriller is. There’s a lot of overlap with action and horror movies, since thrillers often feature threats and/or acts of violence ...

Hours after a federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released last week, an immigration judge — who is a Department of Justice employee — entered a document ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...