Arthur Miller

Scarlett Johansson in Broadway's 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof': What did critics think?

2013-01-18 07:19:00

Scarlett Johansson is the latest star to take a shot at “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Tennessee Williams’ feverish 1955 classic about a wealthy Southern family with two daughters-in-law who all but scratch each other's eyes out over who&...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Katie Holmes gets mixed reviews on Broadway, gold star as a mom

2012-11-30 16:58:00

Katie Holmes' new Broadway effort "Dead Accounts" has finally opened for New York audiences after weeks of previews, and the reviews are in. The verdict: a mixed reception for former "Smash" show-runner Theresa Rebeck's play, but Katie herself won...

Katie Holmes in 'Dead Accounts': What did the critics think?

2012-11-30 06:30:00

Theresa Rebeck’s "Dead Accounts" is on Broadway, loaded with stars -- including two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz in the lead as an unscrupulous Wall Street go-getter who has landed back home in Cincinnati, lavishing ill-gotten gains on...

Taking note of a wave of shorter plays

2012-11-25 06:00:00

As artistic director of L.A.'s Center Theatre Group, Michael Ritchie reads more than a play a day on average — perhaps 500 a year — in quest of the 15 or 16 he'll pick each season for his company's three stages. But lately he's noticed...

The literary side of Marilyn Monroe

2012-07-29 00:00:00

Since her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...

Scarlett Johansson, Benjamin Walker set for 'Cat' revival

2012-09-20 12:08:00

Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker are officially set to get all hot and bothered in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The actors will play Maggie and Brick in a new production that is expected to open Jan....

Tony Awards 2012: For 'Once' daring trumps commerce

2012-06-11 08:00:00

Will wonders never cease: David overcame Goliath in a rare victory at the Beacon Theatre that will force us to rethink the old truism that commerce trumps independent vision on Broadway. "Once," the little musical spun from an Irish art house film,...

Christopher Durang, Will Eno, Adam Rapp win PEN drama awards

2012-08-29 13:41:00

One of the highest honors in the field of letters, the PEN Literary Awards, were announced Wednesday,�and among the honorees are three playwrights.�Christopher Durang is receiving the Master American Dramatist award, while Will Eno and Adam Rapp are being...

Tony Awards 2012: The complete nominees and winners list

2012-06-10 00:00:00

Here is the full list of Tony nominations for 2012 (WINNERS are noted): Play "Clybourne Park,"� Bruce Norris WINNER "Other Desert Cities,"� Jon Robin Baitz "Peter and the Starcatcher,"� Rick Elice "Venus in Fur,"� David Ives Musical "Leap of Faith"...

Andrew Garfield is 'getting on the fridge' as Biff, Spider-Man

2012-06-01 08:13:00

NEW YORK — Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain's rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models. But his...

Tony Awards 2012: Mike Nichols wins for 'Death of a Salesman'

2012-06-10 18:19:00

Mike Nichols picked up his sixth Tony Award on Sunday for directing the recent revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Nichols, 80, thanked Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the playwright, as well as the cast and crew of the production. The...

Jack Klugman and Nancy Linehan Charles as Willy Loman and Linda Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" in 1998.

2012-12-24 16:01:26

Scarlett Johansson in the 2010 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge."

2012-09-20 11:39:00

The movie goddess and the Yankee great married in 1954. The marriage fell apart after 274 days. But he came back into her life when she and Arthur Miller were divorcing, and he was the one who arranged her funeral when she died.

2012-09-05 21:02:41