Early in the twentieth century, American theater critics and drama scholars wondered where the native modern dramatists were--the American equals to Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Anton Chekhov--and why the United States had failed to produce a the...

In the early 1960s it was customary to find the names of four young playwrights linked: Edward Albee, Jack Gelber, Arthur Kopit, and Jack Richardson. These, and certain others like them, wished to prevent theatre in the United States from retreating furt...

In the early 1960s it was customary to find the names of four young playwrights linked: Edward Albee, Jack Gelber, Arthur Kopit, and Jack Richardson. These, and certain others like them, wished to prevent theater in the United States from retreating furt...

Barry Nelson, an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theater career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, has died. He was 89.Nelson died on April 7 while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., his wife, Nansi...

Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to be published in English and one of New Zealand's most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86.Tuwhare died Wednesday in a home for the elderly in the southern city of Dunedin. He had been in poor health...

Hamptons High Vs. Low! High and low culture are again at war in the Hamptons. Tom Wolfe—the last properly dressed man in New York, along with Gay Talese and Lady Bunny—hosts afternoon tea amid the grassy, botoxed WASP splendor of the Meadow Club, while a...

The following recalls have been announced:_ Wang Globalnet is recalling 360 packages of Lotte Margaret Brand Korean Crackers because they might contain undeclared egg. People with an allergy or severe sensitivity to eggs run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they...