In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie ...

"I have always had this knowledge that I could make any man fall in love with me if I really tried... And I think maybe it's ruined my life." This line really cuts deep. A24 has revealed an official ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, in JANET PLANET. Courtesy of A24 In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker has long been a master of silence; her work delights in long, sometimes torturous pauses, letting audiences ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The film is in theaters June 21. In rural Western Massachusetts, ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler in "Janet Planet." In Janet Planet, silence is everything. Playwright Annie Baker's directorial debut thrives in the stretches of time between words, entire scenes ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Does anybody have a rocket ship they can lend me? When I started doing my research after watching Janet Planet and saw that it was written and directed by a playwright, I said, ...

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

It appears we’ve reached some sort of millennial inflection point wherein all the new nostalgic coming-of-age films are set in the summer of 1991. But where Snack Shack was a rowdy, boisterous ...

Amid the current crop of summer movies, I can’t think of one that captures the feeling of summer more evocatively than Janet Planet. Much of the story takes place in a rustic house in woodsy Western ...

“What are we even talking about when we talk about mothers?” The question, posed by Regina (Sophie Okonedo) in the midst of a drug-hazy cuddle puddle, is the central idea that animates Annie Baker’s ...