William Inge

Logan Marshall-Green to star opposite Lily Rabe in 'Miss Julie'

2013-03-07 08:00:00

Logan Marshall-Green, who appeared last summer as one of the doomed space voyagers in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," will co-star alongside Lily Rabe in the Geffen Playhouse's revival of Strindberg's "Miss Julie." Marshall-Green will play the role of...

'Picnic' on Broadway: What did the critics think?

2013-01-14 08:25:00

This post has been updated. "Picnic," the 1953�Pulitzer Prize-winning play by William Inge, is getting a rare revival on Broadway from the Roundabout Theatre with a cast of young, good-looking actors paired alongside more seasoned veterans. Maggie...

James Gammon dies at 70; craggy character actor excelled on stage and screen

2010-07-18 00:00:00

James Gammon, a character actor whose gravelly voice and craggy face made indelible memories in Sam Shepard plays, a spate of western TV shows and films, plus a comic turn in the baseball movie "Major League," has died. He was 70. Gammon died Friday...

Mt. Bassett Revisited

2010-09-11 04:33:09

Saturday's Highlights: 'Colin Quinn Long Story Short' on HBO

2011-04-08 21:36:55

Robert Ellenstein dies at 87; actor and director

2010-11-04 00:00:00

Robert Ellenstein, an actor and director with a varied career, including a long list of Los Angeles theater productions over several decades, died Oct. 28 of natural causes at a nursing home in West Los Angeles, said his son David. He was 87....

Jeffrey Richards: big man on Broadway

2009-06-07 00:00:00

On the opening night of the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," Kevin Spacey, Naomi Watts and a crush of theatergoers pressed into the St. James Theatre. But the man most instrumental in its transfer from Chicago's Goodman Theatre was...

Dick Berg dies at 87; television and film writer and producer

2009-09-03 00:00:00

Dick Berg, a longtime television and motion picture writer and producer, died Tuesday from a fall at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87. A pioneer of the made-for-television movie format that revolutionized network programming in the 1970s, Berg helped...

Pat Hingle dies at 84; veteran actor was perhaps best known for 'Batman' role

2009-01-05 00:00:00

Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four "Batman" films, has died. He was 84....

West capsules

2007-03-11 00:00:00

1. KANSAS LOCATION: Lawrence. ENROLLMENT: 29,624 HOW THEY GOT HERE: Won Big 12 tournament. RECORD: 30-4. RPI: 11th. RECORD VS. FIELD: 5-3. NCAA HISTORY: This is 36th appearance, and 18th in a row. The Jayhawks won it all in 1952 and 1988; they also...

Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo!

2008-08-04 00:00:00

Great actors, even those who have been blessed with longevity, often bear a tragic mark. It's not just the ups and downs of stardom that can make for a cruel career. Rough inner seas are typically the very reason someone seeks to be among what William...

Scoreboard -- March 7, 2013

2013-03-06 22:27:00

|TV SPORTS| Girl’s High School Basketball--South Dakota State Tournaments: Class AA, Aberdeen Central vs. Sturgis, Noon, Sioux Falls Roosevelt vs. Sioux Falls Lincoln, 1:45 p.m., Sioux Falls Washington vs. Sioux Falls O’Gorman, 6 p.m.,...

A scene from the Roundabout Theatre's revival of William Inge's "Picnic" at the American Airlines Theatre in New York. Ellen Burstyn, left, co-stars with Sebastian Stan and Maggie Grace.

2013-01-13 18:43:00

In the 1956 drama "Bus Stop," based on William Inge's Broadway hit, Monroe played Cherie, a down-on-her-luck chanteuse who dreams of going to "Hollywood and Vine." Don Murray played Beau, an exuberant, naive cowboy who pursues her.

2012-08-03 12:28:22

Baltimore's Center Stage is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, as well as its first season under artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah (pictured).

2011-05-04 00:00:00