From enchanted lamps and flying carpets to talking animals, hidden kingdoms, shape-shifting creatures, and journeys across ...

Director Miguel Gomes cameos in his own massive three-part film, Arabian Nights, as a director who cannot handle the pressure of making a movie while his country of Portugal is enduring a massive ...

A new twist on the old magic in the tales of the Arabian Nights. Scheherazade by Léon Samoilovitch Bakst 1896. The Tales of a Thousand and One Nights – the Arabian Nights – start with a terrible ...

The characters in the dreamy fable of memory and loneliness, "Arabian Night," are the types for whom metaphor happens while life is passing by. Almost on a dime they find themselves transported from a ...

The latest film from acclaimed Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (“Our Beloved Month of August,” “Tabu”) is his most ambitious work by far. Divided into three feature-length “volumes” — “The Restless One ...

The Opa-locka Company Administration Building in approximately 1926. Courtesy of Alex Van Mecl It has been far more than 1,001 nights since Opa-locka held its marquee Arabian Nights parade and ...

Dancer Scheherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the caliph in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of caliph Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which failed at first, but supported ...

First devised during the Gulf War 16 years ago, Mary Zimmerman's revived "The Arabian Nights" arrives at another moment when some positive appreciation of Islam and the Arabic world is particularly ...

Mary Zimmerman’s brilliant and hilarious The Arabian Nights, now playing at the Berkeley Rep, is a terrific capper to a tumultuous political year. Iraq was explicitly on Zimmerman’s mind when the play ...