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In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...

In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...

"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...

Lee Marvin (1924–1987) brought a distinctive brand of amused and often bemused virility to over 60 action films from 1951 to 1986, the best of which are being shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center from May 11 to May 24. Marvin won his...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2007. There are 83 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.On this date:In 1446, the Korean alphabet,...

Tommy Tune will return to musical theater, directing "Turn of the Century," a world premiere that will be part of an ambitious 2008-2009 season at Chicago's Goodman Theatre."The show is an original — not based on a movie, a novel, or a made-for-television anything," the...

Max Bialystock, the spark plug that drives "The Producers," is a New Yorker first _ and then he's Jewish, according to Mel Brooks, the man who created the rapscallion who uses money from little old ladies to finance what he thinks will be a flop...