Chris Vognar

Shipwrecks and castaways provide steady grist for storytellers and sustenance for readers and viewers who inevitably ask themselves: What would I be desperate enough to do in such a situation?

Matthew Pearl’s tale of a real-life shipwreck reads like a novel.

The show, part of the Memorial Hermann Broadway at the Hobby Center series, suffered some technical difficulties Tuesday but the ribald humor still shines

The performer is bringing his Mighty Midnight Revival gospel choir to play with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall on Thursday.

There's more than one ghost in the machine in “ Death of the Author ,” Nnedi Okorafor's new sci-fi-adjacent novel finely attuned to our age of AI and AI panic.

A strongman ruler practices the fine political art of divide and conquer, insisting on loyalty at all costs.

David Naughton and Jack Nicholson are among the actors who’ve sunk their teeth into lycanthropic roles.

Playwright Marisela Treviño Orta and director Marcela Lorca are working in the tradition of Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, and San Antonio’s Naomi Shihab Nye

Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin Hannah discusses bestseller ‘The Women.'

One of the best hip-hop albums presents the challenge of separating the art from the artist—or devastation in which the artist was directly involved.