To graduate from my school’s theater department every candidate had to do a portfolio presentation. There you’d present to a three-person committee letters of recommendation, pictures from shows you ...

As part of a series called "My Big Break," All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into ...

Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio have made a two-part, four-hour documentary about a comedy idol, "Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!," premiering Thursday on HBO and HBO Max. It follows Apatow's "The ...