118 stories by "Bruce Weber"
Mr. Cook had a conversation with a co-worker named Sam Shepard at a West Village club in 1964, and a theater career was born.
Mr. Rogers came to fame as a versatile Shakespearean in his native England and later won a Tony award for his performance in Harold Pinter's harrowing family drama "The Homecoming." &nb…
Ms. Harris had a lengthy résumé as an actress, with dozens of movie and television credits, including the 1955 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel of brotherly rivalry, "East of Eden…
Mr. Bevan, who was a longtime caricaturist for the Broadway bistro, and Edmund Trzcinski were inspired by their incarceration in a Nazi camp to write a play about the search for a spy. …
Mr. Sahlins was the last survivor of the three founders of Second City, the Chicago nightclub that nurtured generations of comedians.
Mr. Cromer, a hoofer and comedian who was always coy about his age, was part of a team that played the black theater and nightclub circuit from the 1930s into the '50s, including the Apollo …
Mr. Sickinger was a director who nurtured a network of troupes and theaters that is the city's equivalent of Off and Off Off Broadway.
Mr. Griffiths, who played Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies, reached a career peak as a schoolteacher in "The History Boys" on Broadway and the West End.
Ms. Prida was a longtime writer for The Daily News and El Diario/La Prensa in New York.
Ms. LeGon's career in movies was frustrated by Hollywood racism that relegated her to maids' roles.
Mr. Neumann forged the New York experimental troupe Mabou Mines which, by 1990, had produced eight works of his friend Samuel Beckett.
Mr. Richards won an Oscar for the film adaptation of the musical "Chicago" 27 years after he helped bring it to Broadway.
Mr. Denker's large output ranged from novels and movies to TV and Broadway plays.
Mr. Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, produced work that was politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking.
Mr. Grosbard's work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though his career stretched across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects.
Mr. Murrin, a playwright and avant-garde impresario who became known as the Alien Comic, was apt to put on performances almost anywhere.
Mr. Williamson was a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a cocaine-sniffin…
Ms. Henderson wrote books that have become standard works on America's players and playhouses.
Mr. Duell's understated comic flare enlivened Broadway shows ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"), television series ("Police Squad!) and Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuc…
In her Broadway debut, in "Stick Fly," Condola Rashad is demonstrating gifts that go far beyond her experience or her famous name.
Mr. Deiber was an actor and director with the Comédie-Française for nearly three decades who brought his dramatic expertise to a second career as an opera director.
Mr. Friedman was a ubiquitous presence in and around New York theaters in the 1950s and 1960s
Mr. Woldin also traveled with the Ink Spots and Lionel Hampton, and played in the "Hello, Dolly!" orchestra on Broadway.
Mr. Hastings's best-known work, "Tom and Viv," about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha.
Mr. Hastings's best-known work, "Tom and Viv," about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha.
