Tom Stoppard

'Downton Abbey' star Dan Stevens cast in Broadway's 'The Heiress'

2012-05-14 06:30:00

Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley in the transatlantic hit television drama�"Downton Abbey,"�will make his Broadway debut later this year in a revival of "The Heiress," starring Jessica Chastain. Stevens will play the role of Morris Townsend, a...

Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship

2012-02-23 00:00:00

Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...

Critic's Notebook: In Václav Havel's plays, politics was personal

2012-01-15 00:00:00

PASSINGS: John Wood, Charles L. Gittens

2011-08-12 00:00:00

John Wood Award-winning British actor John Wood, 81, a British actor who won a Tony Award in 1976 for his role in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," died Saturday in his sleep inEngland, his agent announced. Best known for his...

Monster Mash: Guggenheim's Abu Dhabi project; Ai Weiwei's Taiwan show

2011-10-24 16:32:51

Judy Davis returns to stage in Australian production of 'The Seagull'

2011-06-16 16:33:28

Fashion News: Rachel Zoe meets her customers at Saks

2011-09-07 16:32:12

Monster Mash: Artworks go home; 'Book of Mormon' creators chat

2011-09-26 16:33:11

HBO greenlights WWI miniseries 'Parade's End'

2011-06-03 16:36:15

Book review: 'The Information' by James Gleick

2011-03-13 00:00:00

The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick Pantheon: 531 pp., $29.95 Partway through "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as "one of...

Theater: Amid the many bloated musicals, originality sneaks in

2009-12-20 00:00:00

Millennial anxieties ushered in the new decade with Y2K panic, 9/11 made it seem as if the paranoid were on to something, two quagmire wars were launched and the Great Recession left everyone wondering about the prognosis of the American economy as it...

Theater review: 'Rock 'n' Roll' at the Open Fist

2010-11-11 21:32:37

Mandela, standing behind Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, joins a royal gathering at St. James' Palace in London to mark the centenary of the Order of Merit.

2013-03-09 10:14:00

Barney Rosset founded Grove Press, which took on American censorship laws in the 1950s and '60s and championed the work of William S.

2012-02-23 13:22:37

Fresh from her sweetly seductive Honey in the Steppenwolf Theatre�s production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," Carrie Coon forged an intensely complicated young actress at the center of Michael Halberstam�s sexy production of the Tom Stoppard drama of infidelity.

2011-12-22 08:27:22