One look at Albert Nobbs and you can tell he's not your typical 19th-century butler. The fact that the picture exists at all is a testament to Close’s perseverance. After earning rave reviews in the ...

Will the 5-time Oscar nominee finally take home the big prize? By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Period drama meets questions of sexual identity in this Rodrigo Garcia-directed drama. Glenn ...

To say that “Albert Nobbs,” starring Glenn Close as a woman passing as a man in 19th century Ireland, is a portrait of conflicted soul doesn’t begin to touch the murky depths of the difficult ...

Most people are probably familiar with the story of Albert Nobbs through seeing the 2011 film starring Glenn Close. But when librettist Deborah Brevoort was presented with the idea of turning the ...

There’s a lovely scene in “Albert Nobbs” in which two women, dressed in frilly dresses and bonnets, stroll the streets of 19th-century Dublin before arriving at a beachfront. Then one starts to run, ...

On a cold and dreary November afternoon, the cozy lobby of the Chateau Marmont calls to mind Dublin’s once historic Morrison’s Hotel, where Albert Nobbs, the title character in the new gender-bending ...

Early in her career, Glenn Close was often cast in the "good girl" role: the idyllic muse in The Natural; the understanding friend, wife and mother in The Big Chill. Things took a sharp turn for her ...

"Such a kind little man." The object of this offhand remark, delivered from the lofty height of 19th-century British aristocracy, is Albert Nobbs, a Dublin hotel waiter flattened so unobtrusively ...

One look at Albert Nobbs and you can tell he's not your typical 19th-century butler. Her eventual match, Rodrigo Garcia, has made a career of telling femme-centric stories (from “Nine Lives” to ...

Check out M. Night Shymalan's 'Unbreakable,' 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi,' and more before they are no longer available. Our Blu-ray review of director Rodrigo Garcia's ALBERT NOBBS, starring Glenn Close, ...

Albert Nobbs's journey from page to stage to screen has been long and bumpy. Simone Benmussa adapted a short story by Irish writer George Moore into the play The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs; this ...