Chris Vognar

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Chris Vognar

“Born With Teeth” began its life as a world premiere at Alley Theatre in 2022. Liz Duffy Adams’ drama, about the rivalry, friendship, intrigue, and, just maybe, romance shared by William Shakespeare and fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe, then found its way to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in Ashland. That’s a nice run for any homegrown play. But the stage is about to get a lot bigger.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Chris Vognar

When Paul Hunter started shopping around his script for an autobiographical movie called “Government Cheese,” about a Black family living a surreal life in the San Fernando Valley during the late 1960s, he kept getting variations on the same rejection: We don’t know any Black people like this. These aren’t Black characters that we’ve ever seen. “I was like, ‘Dude, this is my family,” Hunter recalled recently.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Chris Vognar

When Paul Hunter started shopping around his script for an autobiographical movie called “Government Cheese,” about a Black family living a surreal life in the San Fernando Valley during the late 1960s, he kept getting variations on the same rejection: We don’t know any Black people like this. These aren’t Black characters that we’ve ever seen. “I was like, ‘Dude, this is my family,” Hunter recalled recently.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chris Vognar

If you’re Pedro Pascal’s Joel in “The Last of Us,” you’ve spent decades staving off a zombie apocalypse, battling “clickers” and non-infected guerrilla fighters. Most of your family is dead, and your 19-year-old adopted daughter is now sullen and distant — perhaps she knows you killed a bunch of people to save her and then lied about it. In short, you’ve got issues. It only makes sense that you’d need to see a therapist.

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Chris Vognar

The most imaginative and relevant show on TV isn't the one about tourists from hell turning a tropical paradise upside down, or the one about corporate drones who separate the professional from the personal. It has been on the air for 14 years, and its new season, which premiered Thursday on Netflix, might actually be its best yet. Yes, "Black Mirror" is back for a seventh installment, ready to poke and prod at all of your technological future-shock anxieties.