Kubrick was keen that the film stay as satire rather than farce – hence excising a final scene in which the War Room descends into a pie fight – but on stage there is no choice. As a play ...

Read our review of Dr Strangelove, adapted from Stanley Kubrick's film by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley, now in performances at the Noël Coward Theatre to 25 January 2025. Nuclear annihilation might ...

Released in 1967 during the Golden Age of the French New Wave, Weekend, a class satire set against a collapsed society, shows how the end of the world can feel right around the corner. When Jean ...

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 ...

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 ...

and prior to walking into the Dr. Phillips Center on Tuesday night I was uncertain how the award-winning scatological satire from the creators of South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone ...

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 ...