122 stories by "Bruce Weber"
The versatile Mr. Bedford gained renown at Stratford in Canada and on Broadway portraying dozens of characters, most notably in works by Shakespeare, Molière and Chekhov.
Ms. Allen appeared on and off Broadway when New York theater was not especially welcoming to black performers, and she helped integrate network television.
After his release from prison, Mr. Cluchey spent time in Europe with Samuel Beckett.
Mr. Gregory worked with Richard Burton as King Arthur, Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and many others.
Mr. Kass was nominated for a Tony for the 1978 musical "Ballroom," based on his Emmy-nominated teleplay about a Bronx widow who visits a dance hall.
After his years in New York, Mr. Seawell led The Denver Post and was a major force behind Denver's performing arts center.
Known for his astute casting and skillful work with actors, Mr. Bernhardt directed many leading stage performers on Broadway and won a Tony for "Da."
Mrs. Brecht-Schall managed the works of Bertolt Brecht and performed with the Berliner Ensemble, the troupe founded by him.
Mr. Phillips, a British theater director, added productions and brought in stars like Maggie Smith during his tenure as artistic director in the '70s.
Mr. Moody, a British character actor, flared to prominence in the role of Dickens's guru of thievery, in the stage and screen adaptation of "Oliver!".
Mr. Bailey, who performed in the guise of pop divas like Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, was a Las Vegas favorite, but he also played supper clubs, cabarets, Carnegie Hall and the London …
Author: Doug Wright
Producers: Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons
A man who writes about death for a living stepped into a stage coffin for a role in “Play Dead,” an Off Broadway show.
An obituary writer gets a role for a night in “Play Dead,” which milks entertainment from the universal human attraction to what repels us: most of all, death.
Ms. Stoddard, after a long career onstage and in television roles, brought the works of Noël Coward, James Thurber and Harold Pinter to Broadway.
Mr. McLure, who was best known for plays like “Lone Star” and “Pvt. Wars,” had a following in the West and in regional theaters.
Mr. Linney roved along many intellectual paths, refashioning classical works for modern times and adapting contemporary novels for the stage.
Ms. Stevenson, who appeared in a handful of movies and television shows, spent most of her career on the stage.
Marcia Lewis, an actress and singer known for bringing a comic brassiness to Broadway revivals of “Grease” and “Chicago,” died on Tuesday in Nashville. She was 72.
Ed Schmidt’s personal farewell to the theater, “My Last Play,” takes place in his Brooklyn living room.
Shannon spent seven months performing in the show before receiving a diagnosis of leukemia in April.
Mr. Bosley played the reliably kind father on TV’s “Happy Days” and won a Tony onstage for “Fiorello!”
Mr. Mantell was a character actor who, nearly 20 years apart, delivered two of movie history’s more memorable lines, one to Ernest Borgnine and one to Jack Nicholson.
Irving Ravetch, whose playwriting career stalled on the brink of Broadway but who became half of one of Hollywood’s most successful husband-and-wife screenwriting teams, creators of th…
