To McKeen, the Boston University professor, there were two huge influences on a young Thompson’s life in Louisville: the ...

Joe Iconis spent years writing "The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical," before finally being invited to walk in the famed journalist's footsteps.

Here & Now 's Scott Tong speaks with Joe Iconis, playwright and composer, and Eric William Morris, star, of “ The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S Thompson Musical.” ...

Signature Theatre’s high-octane rock musical paints Hunter S. Thompson as a counterculture icon, but leans too hard on hero worship and too little on meaningful insight.

Still inhabited by Thompson’s widow, Anita, the home was in many ways exactly as the idiosyncratic author left it when he took his own life there in February 2005 at age 67.

I was milling around with some ambivalence at my 25th high school reunion, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when Hunter S. Thompson delivered a jump scare from beyond the grave. Days before I was scheduled ...

Iconis’s propulsive score is peppered with protest anthems, beat-poet swagger and a recurring rock ’n’ roll hymn to outsiders and misfits. “All hail Hunter S. Thompson,” the ensemble chants.

What can one say about Hunter S. Thompson, the infamous “Gonzo” journalist who wrote about the Hell’s Angels, The Kentucky Derby, who wrote prolifically in Rolling Stone Magazine and who ...

Maybe the best way to make sense of things in politics is to break out into song. Is this what Joe Iconis had in mind when he ...

After years of scandal and silence, Johnny Depp returns with ‘Modigliani,’ his first film as director in 20 years.

Remarkably, the author’s signature humor—satirical at times, lighthearted at others—prevails in the exact proportion ...