CHEYENNE — If you’ve never been to a melodrama before, you should know there are two main rules: be vocal during the show, and embrace the chaos. Every year, the sheriff and card girls will remind the ...

CHEYENNE — The Historic Atlas Theatre carries on the 68-year tradition of its melodrama performance during CFD this year with a Hamlet-inspired production. Many things make a melodrama iconic, but ...

Zozobra, that adorably monstrous effigy of gloom created by artist Will Shuster, had its first annual burning in 1924. Though in recent decades his big night has been moved around the calendar a bit, ...

Audiences can count on a mystery or two in a melodrama, but whom the audience should root for? That’s usually pretty clear. But as it’s proved in the past, Black Gold Productions isn’t an average ...

The Great American Melodrama in Oceano has begun the summer season with "Le Rue's Return" by Edward Thorpe and Scott Cherney, told in the classic melodramatic style with booing, hissing, cheering and ...

Sofia Coppola has taken a 1971 Southern Gothic psychodrama directed by a man and remade it from a female perspective — and the result is powerful. This is FRESH AIR. Writer-director Sofia Coppola won ...

Eric Bentley tried to break down the current "prejudice against melodrama" as he resumed his Charles Eliot Norton lectures last night. Though melodrama is accused of exaggerating emotions, he said, it ...