This surrealist satire follows a bourgeois couple, Roland ( Jean Yanne) and Corinne Durant ( Mireille Darc ), who travel across the French countryside to collect an inheritance from Corinne's dying ...

Dharmesh Patel, at home with Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions across the UK, is taking on a new challenge as Lincoln – a character caught in a series of dilemmas in the timeless tale ...

'We are not asking for your resignation. We are asking you to assume your rightful place as an ethereal lodestar in the hopes and dreams of your people' You can save this article by registering ...

Today, the term fascism has taken on a looser political definition and is often evoked as a catch-all for efforts to spread oppression and racism — as well as to decry dictators or leaders who ...

Up against the wall: Ward Sutton’s comic panels get the gallery treatment (“Civil Whites,” 2024, acrylic on canvas, 26x30”). Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in ...

The line between news and satire has blurred so much that the latter has been shared on social media as fact, where it quickly spreads misinformation. This continues to get worse, especially when ...

A headline reporting that Elon Musk pledged $5 billion to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, comes from a satirical article. Musk, CEO ...

One of the best jokes in new comedy show The Franchise surrounds a mystery character named 'Shane', who plays a key role in the superhero satire. With the series following a group of filmmakers as ...

“Gershwin Brothers’ Two Political Satire Musicals in Concert” ran at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Oct. 12. —Staff writer Ria S. Cuéllar-Koh can be reached at ria ...

You’d expect this to be an opportunity for some vicious mockery. What we get instead is satire — if you can even call it that — that’s disappointingly soft and toothless, and takes small ...

The Franchise (Sky Comedy, Now) is a knives-out HBO/Sky satire in the tradition of Succession or Veep, in which the Hollywood sausage factory that stuffs endless superhero hero movies down the ...