If J.C. Leyendecker isn’t the household name that Norman Rockwell is today, that certainly wasn’t always the case. The Golden Age illustrator, whose heyday spanned the first three decades of the 20th ...

Seth Brundle's stomach-churning transformation in David Cronenberg's The Fly is laden with metaphor. The most obvious parallel is terminal illness, but there's extra subtext in there you may not have ...

SubText: A Bookstore launched June 13. “It was a good day to open a small business in a dying industry,” says Sue Zumberge, the owner of the modest-sized bookstore, located in the basement of the ...

Subtext is the underlying meaning or message of a text that isn't explicitly stated. It is the words that aren't said, but which audiences can intuit and actors should understand. For actors, this has ...

Noël Coward knew precisely what he was doing. Although mention of him might, to the unenlightened, conjure dressing gowns, dry bons mots and even drier martinis, his best plays are far more acute and ...

Jurassic Park is about more than an amusement park full of prehistoric reptiles. The perils of playing god is a foreground theme, but there's a lot going on beneath the surface too. There's a sneaky ...