Critics' Forum

“Why do you collect?” I inquired over a casual dinner conversation as we were discussing his most recent acquisition.

Comedy is the genre that has the most difficulty traveling. The Hollywood filmmaker trying to transcend markets, the stand-up comedian...

Over the past year, the feedback to my writings on theater included two particularly interesting responses.

Two translations in two years. Two translations of Krikor Beledian’s monumental Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France, 1922-1972, From...

If only there were two more like Aram Kouyoumdjian. Just two more working in Los Angeles, so that the theater...

I spent part of this summer in Armenia – mesmerized by the free flight of “tsitsernakner,” birds purported to return...

Armenian theater in Los Angeles offered stunningly little over the past year that was authentically new. Several pieces passed off...

A few weeks ago, an Armenian theater artist/producer in Los Angeles posted on Facebook that she was selling her collection...

I must admit, picking up a book with a narrative already too familiar is a tall order. The task is...

BY KAREN JALLATYAN Gariné Torossian is a Lebanese-born Canadian-Armenian filmmaker who for more than two decades has been making numerous...