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“Screwball Comedy” by Norm Foster, now playing at The Public Theater in Lewiston, isn’t fooling around. The title serves as more than just the definition of the genre.
Preston Sturges' 1942 screwball comedy The Palm Beach Story has a twist ending that you definitely could not see coming.
Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding bring screwball comedy energy to horror movie "Heart Eyes." It's not great, but it is fun and incredibly entertaining.
Screwball comedy celebrates silliness, even as it magnifies the razor-sharp line between luck and misfortune. It celebrates the joy and whimsy of fun, particularly in moments of grief and uncertainty.
While generally categorized as a “comedy of manners” in the tradition of Oscar Wilde and Somerset Maugham, Private Lives can actually be viewed as one of the first, and best, examples of the ...
The Public Theatre plans to present “Screwball Comedy,” by Norm Foster April 29 through May 8 at the theater, 31 Maple St. in Lewiston, and video-on-demand May 3-8.
STAGES From fringe companies, a timely drama, a screwball comedy, and a fairy tale By Terry Byrne Globe correspondent,Updated June 15, 2022, 5:09 p.m.
Movies ‘She Came to Me’: Flawed but fanciful screwball comedy Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway star in a fitfully funny comedy of urban manners and moral quandaries ...
Best described as a screwball comedy, “She Came to Me” focuses on Dinklage in a scene-stealing role as an opera composer – who’s been blocked for five years — whose marriage to Hathaway ...