Awkwardness is the operative word for Richard Nelson's "Franny's Way" at the Geffen Playhouse. It's a play about awkward characters in awkward situations. It's also an awkward play, awkwardly directed ...

Until a few days ago, a cartoon of mine hung on a wall of Franny’s, the amazing, inventive Italian restaurant and pizzeria extraordinaire on Flatbush Avenue, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I gave the ...

A flamboyant turn by Richard Gere is the heart and soul of “Franny,” an off-kilter character study of a Philadelphia philanthropist whose eccentricities both mask and manifest a dark side. The movie ...

Chef Johnathan Adler, an alum of Per Se and Blue Hill at Stone Bars, is leaving the kitchen of Prospect Heights staple Franny’s, the restaurant confirms. Franny’s sent out a letter to guests on Friday ...

This year marks the 60 th anniversary of J. D. Salinger’s short story “Franny”—best known as the first half of Salinger’s 1961 book, Franny and Zooey. But there has been no widespread celebration of ...

It was a beautiful January day near Asheville, North Carolina, with the sun rising over the mountains and shining on Franny’s Farm, said Jeff Tacy, CEO of Franny’s Distribution, painting a pretty ...

Richard Nelson's new play is a distaff companion piece to his last, "Madame Melville." It, too, is a bittersweet memory play narrated by a character looking back on a time of emotional and sexual ...