In 1920, a German silent film made cinematic history. It is still revered by film buffs a hundred years later. The film focuses on a mad hypnotist (Dr. Caligari) who brainwashes a man and then forces ...

In a banner year for horror films, it's somewhat telling that The Conjuring: Last Rites blew past Sinners and Final Destination Bloodlines at the box office. As popular as horror films with gratuitous ...

Ball's adaptation, as directed by Jed Allen Harris, imagines the show-within-a-show as an unfinished adaptation by Bertolt Brecht. We are in East Germany, circa the early 1970s, where Brecht's widow ...

This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up here to get it every Wednesday afternoon. Quantum Theatre took a bit ...

Dan Krell plays the title role in Quantum Theatre's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." A carnival sideshow performer, an old man, promises his audience wonders. He opens a coffin-like wooden container to ...