In "Only for the Wicked", Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg immerse viewers in a grotesque world of sin and foolery.

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

What was candy like in colonial America? Candy today is popular during the holidays. We have different kinds of candy that we use for different holidays. It’s a very seasonal th ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...

The Huntington has announced the cast and creative team of The Triumph of Love, the classic romantic comedy written by Pierre ...

FOR anyone who can’t wait seven months for the next Downton Abbey movie, how about a visit to the real-life village instead. The beloved TV series and franchise was filmed all over the UK, ...

The Gagliano cello created in the early 18th century with which Pál Hermann gave concerts all over Europe in the 1920s and with which he had to hide from the Nazis and go into exile in the 1930s ...

Meaning "clown" in Korean, gwangdae refers to traditional ... the gwangdae and spirits who have safeguarded the theater for a century appear alongside Obangshin, guardian spirits rooted in Korea ...

interspersed by acts from a clown. This was the humble beginnings of Asltey’s Circus, one of London’s great 18th and 19th century venues, which pretty much invented circus as we know it.

The 18th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. It left Australia in early May, trained in Egypt from mid-June until mid-August, and on 22 ...

On a recent Saturday a little past noon, Jennifer Hernandez sat at the dining table in the South Gate home where she grew up. She focused intently, holding a handheld makeup mirror as she used ...

It was an assessment often echoed over the ensuing half-century. Later that year Benjamin moved to London. Television casting directors incorrectly assumed he was Jewish “because my name was ...