'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet

Veils off to Kristen Wiig as feeling and farce marry, says Joe Morgenstern. Meanwhile, a fiery Joseph Gordon-Levitt is dampened by "Hesher."

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Remembering the Divide

"Freedom Riders," on PBS, recalls the culture of bigotry and violence that plagued the Deep South in 1961 and pays tribute to the heroic men and women who risked their lives to change it.

George Bernard Shaw, With Passion

Balanced on a knife-edge between post-Sondheim musical comedy and full-fledged opera, "A Minister's Wife" takes one of Shaw's talkiest plays and transfuses it with the hot blood of pure lyricism.

Get to the Good Part: In Praise of Shortened Attention Spans

Being too impatient to work through some of the masterworks of our culture isn't such a bad thing.

The Classical Cavalier

As he prepares for American Ballet Theatre's spring season in New York, Cory Stearns reflects on his road to becoming the company's newest principal dancer.

When Death Is Merely a Paddle Stroke Away

"I cruised down the initial part of the whitewater, turned into an eddy too late and flipped—just above where the Class III waterfall tumbled into the abyss."

Overdue but Underdone

The gorgeous "Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay," at the Cooper-Hewitt, may be cause for celebration, but it presents barely half the story.