Meet acclaimed writer and director Arthur Laurents, a 2008 Tony Award nominee for direction of his masterpiece, Gypsy.

Of Mice and Men 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays through June 8 Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena $25-$65 356-7529; ...

President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added domestic funding combined to kill - for now - $163 billion to support U.S. ...

California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, ...

Andrew Schafer is only in eighth-grade, but his desire to enlist in the Marines shows he has a sense of service to his country.

In the computer-manipulated universe of fantasy-film franchises, we've gotten to the point where filmmakers automatically assume that more is better.

It's hard to complain about the recent resurgence of the epic fantasy film. Yet, the "Narnia" films give off a slightly overcooked odor, as though they're resigned to always being served as a side dish to "The ...

"Immediately after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [Japanese Emperor] Hirohito convinced the Japanese militarists to surrender, but there was a coup to prevent the surrender and commence a fight to the death," Conroy ...