‘Miller’s Girl’ Review: Teacher’s Dirty Looks

As a young girl, I inherited my mother’s library of Betty Cavanna books. Cavanna was a Y.A. novelist who wrote sensitive, intelligent coming-of-age stories about teenagers, often featuring well-researched milieus: a struggling Vermont inn, a Pennsylvania ranch, a fishing community. “Paintbox Summer,” in which the aimless protagonist is sent to Cape Cod to work as…

Hi I’m Bradley Cooper. I co-wrote and directed ‘Maestro.’ It was very important to me, at the onset of this scene, that she be in a position of power. So, her on the windowsill, the light haloing her behind, waiting for whoever was gonna come in to be scolded. And then he’s sort of like…

Hylton tells the story of Crownsville Hospital, a segregated asylum on 1,500 acres in Anne Arundel County, Md. Based on the ludicrous but stubbornly persistent theories of Dr. Cartwright and others, at the turn of the 20th century, Maryland lawmakers claimed to notice rising insanity in Negroes, which they blamed on freedom — willfully ignoring…

A couple of months ago, the artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith gathered a bare-bones crew for a guerrilla-style shoot — no permits; the locations half-scouted, half-figured-out on the fly — around the land that she calls her home and her obsession: Los Angeles. They were filming the city — four days and nights in a…

Some casting choices are blindingly obvious. That does not make them lazy; it makes them right. Such is the case with Sutton Foster as the eccentric Princess Winnifred in the Encores! revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” which opened Wednesday at City Center. The central role in this broadly goofy musical was exuberantly, indelibly originated…

Now that she’s released the deluxe edition — in honor of her 78th birthday, on Friday! — Dolly Parton’s already sprawling double album “Rockstar” runs nearly three hours long and clocks in at an indefatigably rockin’ 39 tracks. This makes finding the album’s buried treasures that much more exhausting, but luckily one sparkles out from…