In "The Shack," a grieving father struggles to come to terms with the abduction and murder of his youngest daughter.

A good Sondheim show has the sinewy strength, both musically and dramatically, to thrive in the barest of renderings.

If the rich are different from you and me, how much more different, then, are royalty?

A number of the Oscar winners and nominees have played disabled characters, but only two of them identified as disabled.

Sor Juana Inés found both tension and sustenance in her religious life.

Ava DuVernay's "13th," a documentary about mass incarceration of African Americans nominated for an Oscar, is full of good words and bad images.