John Barrymore, who appeared in over 40 plays, 60 films, and 100 radio shows during his forty-year career, was perhaps the most influential and idolized actor of his day. The best known of America's "Royal Family" of actors, the...

John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 29 1942 in Los Angeles, California), was an American actor. He gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III, and is frequently...

Legend has it that Italian opera star Enrico Caruso rode out the 1906 earthquake in the Palace Hotel, finally running into the rubble-filled street wearing only a towel to declare, "I will never set foot in San Francisco again!''The shaken Caruso walked up to the...

The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those...

This is Oskar Eustis’ first season as artistic director of the Public Theater, and of course we all wish him well. The Public is just about the last of our major nonprofit theaters not to sell out to Broadway (though it’s had its shaky moments)....

This is Oskar Eustis’ first season as artistic director of the Public Theater, and of course we all wish him well. The Public is just about the last of our major nonprofit theaters not to sell out to Broadway (though it’s had its shaky moments)....