You might know her as Lisa from Six Feet Under. Or maybe you remember her as the depressive folk singer in Say Anything, or as Andy Warhol's would-be-killer Valerie Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol. Lili Taylor has stolen a lot of scenes over the years -- ...

Right now, New Yorkers can see Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline performing in Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children at the fiftieth annual Shakespeare in the Park festival. This isn't the first time a playwright other than Shakespeare has crashed the festival. WNYC's Sarah Montague ...

The author T. Coraghessan Boyle has turned himself into a brand name -- which is remarkable since Boyle doesn't write within a specific genre. If anything, T.C. Boyle's fans expect the unexpected topic with each book, but they always count on Boyle's wit and charm. Kurt ...

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In the late 1930s, Edgar Kaufmann told the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright he wanted him to design a country home by a waterfall in Pennsylvania. Wright informed Kaufmann he intended to build the house over the waterfall — and an icon of American architecture was born.