The 29th LA Shorts International Film Festival is about to get underway in downtown Los Angeles, an Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying event that will showcase 470 films between July 16-28. The festival ...

The playwright and actor (and shiv) Wallace Shawn, left, with Larry Pine in a 2013 performance of “The Designated Mourner” at the Public Theater.

Wallace Shawn and Gina Gershon are standing by Woody Allen. The two performers are starring in "Rifkin’s Festival," which tells the tale of a retired film studies professor (Shawn) who ...

Wallace Michael Shawn is an American actor, playwright, and essayist. His film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. James Hall in Clueless and the ...

Wallace Shawn: Well, it's been a little more than 15 minutes now, and I've got a friend who will be waiting to see me in about 20 minutes. Do you think that's enough time for your questions?

Wallace Shawn (left) wrote an op-ed about why he's choosing to still work with Woody Allen. (Getty Images) In 2014, Farrow wrote an open letter for The New York Times where she alleged Allen ...

Wallace Shawn might be best known for Louis Malle’s 1981 two-hander film “My Dinner With Andre,” which takes place almost entirely inside a restaurant during one meal between old friends. As ...

From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts. In new versions of “The Designated Mourner” and “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” Wallace Shawn brings moral horror right to your ear.

To most, Wallace Shawn is the scene-stealing, short, nasal-voiced supporting player in “The Princess Bride,” “Clueless” and the “Toy Story” films. To the theatrical world he’s ...

Wallace Shawn, Hollywood’s favorite comic villain, and the writer/star of the new movie, "A Master Builder," wrestles with the double life.

Elena Anaya and Wallace Shawn in Woody Allen’s 2020 film “Rifkin’s Festival” (Vision Distribution) I’ve considered the possibility that I’m too biased to consider the subject objectively.

Watch a recording of Wallace Shawn and Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan as they tackle these issues—and attempt to answer your questions. Share Date Jun 09, 2021 Time 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET ...