Alan Ayckbourn is at both his near-best and his laziest in "Damsels in Distress," the second in an ad hoc sequence of London theatrical trilogies. Three unrelated plays using the same cast on the same ...

The image of a lady in need of rescue could be one of the oldest literary tropes in history. In traditional stories, the Hero has to rescue a woman, one in some kind of danger or "distress" as it were ...

In a murky apartment, a muscular gent clad in trousers and slung-down suspenders plays the trumpet for a dark-haired vixen tied to a chair. He takes the instrument from his lips, but its tune blares ...

“There’s no logic to the algebra of love,” says one of the female characters in Damsels in Distress, an extremely dry and self-aware indie romantic comedy by director/writer Whit Stillman (The Last ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. In the case of Damsels in Distress, the created world is Seven Oaks University, which has all the earmarks of being one of those ...

Who knew anal sex could be so quirky and whimsical? Roping together everything from college-comedy stereotypes (toga parties, campus cliques, etc) to the origin of dance crazes to Catharism, ...