Boris Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago,” whose views of Bolshevism appalled Soviet authorities, very nearly made him an exile. Pasternak, subject of “The Real Doctor Zhivago” (Monday, Acorn TV), ...

The musical is unexpectedly easy to follow despite heavy exposition, multiple character arcs and constant action...The songs are soft and often moving. And while it's admirable that the creators ...

Oh, the agony of it all. Wolves howl. Snow falls. Grenades explode. Guns blare. Vodka flows. Bodies fall. Marching boots stomp. Depressed and dying lovers search the Russian steppes for each other in ...

Into one of the most sordid episodes in Russian literary history, the Soviets' persecution of Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago," a Russian historian has injected a belated piece of intrigue: ...

Broadway’s “Doctor Zhivago” is an epic miss. Based on the acclaimed Boris Pasternak novel, this miscalibrated musical is yet another attempt to bottle page-to-stage lightning a la “Les Miserables.” ...

At least one of the musicals that I see on Broadway each season leaves me shaking my head and muttering 'What were they thinking?' on the way out of the theater. 'Doctor Zhivago,' which purports to be ...

Boris Pasternak with his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, and her daughter, Irina, in the late 1950s. Pasternak channeled his love for Ivinskaya, and his frustration with their relationship, into ...