Bob Balaban

Martin Landau to receive career award at Israel Film Festival

2013-03-19 13:33:00

Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau will receive the 2013 Israel Film Festival's Career Achievement Award at the 27th opening night gala April 18 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Past recipients of the honor include Richard...

Review: Wes Anderson finds near perfect balance in 'Moonrise Kingdom'

2012-05-25 16:55:00

It seems fitting that "Moonrise Kingdom,"arguably Wes Anderson's most grown-up film yet, is a warm and funny fable about kids on the cusp. Here the writer-director's tendency toward the allegorical casts a magical spell with Anderson finding a near...

Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

2012-05-18 16:37:02

'The Good Wife' recap: The gambler

2011-11-07 16:36:11

From a California courtroom to Broadway: A reading of '8'

2011-09-20 16:33:19

Paul Dooley's romantic 'Head Over Heels' steps into Hollywood Film Festival

2009-10-23 04:37:50

Arthur Miller's one-act noir 'Some Kind of Love Story'

2008-08-22 00:00:00

Who knew Arthur Miller yearned to be Mickey Spillane? In his 1982 one-act, "Some Kind of Love Story," now at the Hayworth Theatre, the playwright serves up a dime novel plot complete with trench coats, bishop-tempting blonds and cops on the take....

'Girls' recap, episode 8, 'It's Back'

2013-03-04 03:37:00

The "it" in question is Hannah's OCD, which apparently was a serious problem when she was in high school. With the first real deadline for her e-book on the horizon, she's regressing into obsessive behaviors, namely counting to eight. A lot. She counts...

Julia Roberts to star in ‘The Normal Heart’ on HBO

2013-01-04 16:41:50

Ben Affleck's 'Argo' dazzles -- Oscar bait for certain!

2012-10-11 21:05:09

"IS THAT your best bad idea?" "That's the best bad idea I've had today!" So goes one of the many surprisingly funny exchanges between Ben Affleck and Bryan Cranston in Ben's astonishing, riveting, hugely entertaining and mostly-historically accurate...

Blythe Danner Returns To Williamstown For 'The Blue Deep'

2012-06-24 00:00:00

Blythe Danner feels right at home on stage in the Berkshire hills. After a 12-year absence, the actress is returning to the Williamstown Theatre Festival that shaped her early career nearly 40 years ago and where she continued to return over the decades....

Tyne Daly Leads Acting Roster At Williamstown Theatre Festival

2012-05-23 04:55:00

Tyne Daly, Lili Taylor, Alison Fraser are among the actors featured this summer in the plays and musicals at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Massachusetts Berkshires. As previously announced, the 58th season will feature: Oscar Wilde’s...

Bob Balaban.

2013-03-15 13:20:39

"Gosford Park" costars Bob Balaban and Maggie Smith arrive at the 74th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on March 24, 2002.

2013-01-02 15:57:00

Bob Balaban, left, as the Narrator, Jason Schwartzman as Cousin Ben, Bill Murray as Mr. Bishop, Wyatt Ralff as Rudy, Jake Ryan as Lionel, Frances McDormand as Mrs.

2012-06-28 00:00:00