BroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing of playwright and performer Andy Halliday. Halliday passed away at age 73, ...

Amid the chaos that followed the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert, a Norman mercenary named Russel de Balliol exploited civil war and foreign invasion to carve out his own principality in Asia Minor.

SHE became the youngest ever Bond girl at 21 – and Gemma Arterton thinks one reason she landed the role as MI6 agent ...

The crusaders reach Constantinople, strip the countryside for supplies, break the chain at the Golden Horn, and launch a siege that exposes the empire’s paralysis under Alexius III. When the emperor ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

This talk explores how Byzantium operates as a queer cipher in modern culture, appearing as an adjectival modifier, “the Byzantine,” rather than as a distinct historical referent. Analyzing Gore Vidal ...

While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at Istanbul's Greek roots, its transformation into the capital of a Christian empire and reveals how clashes forced eastern and western churches apart. Simon Sebag ...

New films from Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Guillermo del Toro and Ryan Coogler are heading to audiences in the new year. By Mia Galuppo, Bryan Antunez The movies of 2025 are ...

There’s a downside to our ocean-of-content culture: It can be overwhelming. Scanning all those titles, all those options, you feel at moments like you’re drowning in possibility. Yet there’s a serious ...