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Film Reviews: Its amusingly off-kilter humor underserved by pedestrian packaging, Dave Boyle's sophomore feature, 'White on Rice,' is the kind of comedy that hinges on a protagonist near-imbecilic in all matters social, physical and especially romantic.

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Sarah Ruhl's new work about the use of mechanical devices to treat female 'hysteria' in the late 1800s, will be presented this fall on Broadway (at the Shubert) by Lincoln Center Theater. The play had a successful premiere last month at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California....

Exclusives: Joel Silver producing Dark Castle thriller -- Juame Collet-Serra will direct 'Unknown White Male,' a thriller for Dark Castle.

This new play, based on (or at least inspired by) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Christabel," is a diverting, idiosyncratic little fable that turns primal.

Jane Fonda is opening up about the death of Natasha Richardson, who Jane says she first met on a movie set when Natasha was a child.On her Web site, Jane blogs of Natasha: "I first met her on the set of 'Julia.' She was a little girl but already beautiful and graceful. It didn't surprise me that she became such a talented actor. "I wanted to go to the Lennox Hill Hospital where I was told she had been taken to see if there was anything I could do for Vanessa [Redgrave], any comfort I could bring but today was a two-show day and as the curtain went up tonight I heard the tragic news. It is hard to even imagine what it must be like for her family. My heart is heavy."

When Minal Hajratwala was growing up in Michigan, 'a shy brown kid' in an upscale white suburb, she often felt invisible, 'culturally isolated.' This was in the 1980s, long before 'Slumdog Millionaire' became a box office and Oscar-winning phenomenon, long before Bollywood kitsch had found a Western audience.

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe's Youth Theater Project, in partnership with Brava Theater Academy, presents 'T.N.T. - Explosive Youth Theater 2009'. T.N.T. Youth Arts Festival has one main goal: to partner younger, less experienced actors and technicians with professional theater practitioners at both organizations. The collaboration creates powerful new theater pieces with an authentic youth voice.

How European journalists are reacting to the fast-moving trial in St Pölten, AustriaIn the Salzburger Nachrichten, ­Manfred Peter wrote: 'The press pack is hungry for prey. It needs feeding. Otherwise it simply starts making stories up.'The cost of dispatching expensive journalists and crews to cover the story meant they had to justify their existence by reporting on what was essentially a non-event, he said.'It's all about money - every day in St Pölten costs money, particularly for the TV people. Expensive satellite links have to be paid for in advance,' Peter said.He claimed the Austrian judiciary was walking a tightrope by holding a daily press conference even though there was nothing to say, and what little they did feed to the hungry press pack could become 'sexed up and ­distorted'.But better this than feed them nothing - a bored journalist was a dangerous thing, he suggested.In the Braunschweiger Zeitung, Cornelia Steiner argued it was right that the press and public were exclu

Memoirs do not have to be sensational or celebrity-driven to move us. The crime writer Laura Lippman picks her favourite tales of the quotidianThe crime writer Laura Lippman was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at the Baltimore Sun. Since 2001, she has been a full-time novelist. Her novels have won almost every prize given for crime fiction in the United States, including the Edgar, Anthony, Nero Wolfe and Agatha awards. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, the writer David Simon, who created the hit TV series The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street. Her most recent novel, Life Sentences, is published by Avon. Buy Life Sentences at the Guardian bookshop. I love memoirs, although I have promised my family members that I will never try my hand at one. ('Can I get that in writing?' my sister asked.) However, I'm generally not drawn to the addiction/dysfunction stories that have been popular of late; I wanted no part of A Million Little Pieces even when it was masqueradi