Disney's upcoming streaming service won't try to compete directly with Netflix and Amazon, but will focus instead on quality — namely original programs from Disney's "Star Wars," Pixar and...

Boz Scaggs, "Out of the Blues" (Concord Records) Sometimes with more gloss, at times with more grit, but always with great feeling, Boz Scaggs has kept some form of the blues close to the surface...

In previous "Mission: Impossible" movies, action often came first, and story second. It's almost ironic then that when writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise decided to focus on...

"The Real Deal" (St. Martin's Griffin), by Lauren Blakely Being the only single person in the family is sometimes annoying. It's worse when parents get involved, aggressively pushing every...

In the world of opera, few works hold such distinction as Giuseppe Verdi's famous masterpiece Aida, with performances of the classic staged repeatedly every year around the globe. For most opera...

What's the television industry's top summer destination? A hotel in which 200-plus U.S. and Canadian entertainment reporters and critics gather for an early look at next season's shows and the chance...

There's a date on Josh Geartz's calendar that the former U.S. Army sergeant has been looking forward to for quite some time. Aug. 10 will mark Geartz's fourth retreat with the nonprofit...

"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again " is a wholly ridiculous movie that I thoroughly enjoyed. It's the kind of movie that feels and sounds like a summer vacation should: Fizzy, lively, low-stakes and...

"Rescued: an Andy Carpenter Mystery" (Minotaur), by David Rosenfelt Defense attorney Andy Carpenter is known to win seemingly unwinnable cases. In "Rescued," the 17th of David Rosenfelt's novels...

They say that truth may be stranger than fiction and, certainly, the story of the battle to perform Anthony Neilson's Stitching in Malta is one worthy of a play. Famed for the headline-hitting...