William Inge was one of the most successful American playwrights during the 1950s. No American writer of serious drama has matched his unbroken series of critical and popular successes during that decade. Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953),...

William Motter Inge was one of America's most successful playwrights during the 1950s. No American writer of serious drama has matched his unbroken series of critical and popular successes during that decade. Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic...

Songwriter Ron Miller, whose tunes included pop classics "Touch Me in the Morning" and "For Once in My Life," has died, his daughter said.Miller died Monday of cardiac arrest at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center after a long battle with emphysema and cancer, Lisa Dawn...

Today is Thursday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2007. There are 242 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1494 - Columbus discovers Jamaica.1660 - Peace of Olivia is signed, ending war between Brandenburg, Poland, Austria and Sweden.1765 - The first U.S....

Pat Boone calls it his museum. The walls of his office are covered with paintings and photos of the singer in his prime, as well as covers of his albums, which sold in the millions _ more than Elvis.There's a bronzed bust of the singer...

A monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that _ surprisingly _ are dominating the first half of the season."The lineup of production for the fall season should...

The similarities in characters and situations in [the work of William Inge and Tennessee Williams] are obvious: sexual fantasies, frustrated women, the devirilization of studs—"homosexual spite"—homosexual characters studied covertly etc. However, Inge's plays add to the list of ruses the homosexual dramatist has been forced to employ in depicting his own experience, particularly with regard to "virile friend-ship," the caustic description of heterosexual rel...

Until the appearance of A Loss of Roses (1959), Inge had a reputation as a playwright whose work did not fail. Following the modest success of Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Inge's next three plays, Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), established him as one of Broadway's most successful playwrights; because of our strange belief in the corollary relationship between income and reputation, Inge also came to be accepted as one of America's leadin...

The successful playwright, whose dramatic scope is never outwardly wide, whose characters are as commonplace as old shoes, and whose subject matter rarely rises above the ordinary routine of small-town life, necessarily must possess compensating gifts. William Motter Inge … has an abundance of such gifts. Possessed of extraordinary perception, sensitivity, and compassion, he has the rare and admirable trait of expressing the frustrations and dilemmas of "the so-called little man without being ...