... Broadway and film actress Mabel Acker. She starred in the original "My Girl Friday," which opened on Broadway in 1929. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Daniel Raggett's enlivening instalment is the third in Sonia Friedman's bracing Re:Emerge season
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonEmma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton's two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design Damien Hirst's conceptual art i…
Journalist turned playwright Joseph Charlton on how the Anna Sorokin case inspired his play about identity and power, starring Emma Corrin One night, while out with friends in London and loo…
In this wide-ranging 2004 interview, the star looks back at her career and forward to what would become her second Tony-winning role in Doubt.
Shortly before she died in 2007, philanthropist Linda Pace had a dream in which she saw a shining red counterpart to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz which would hold her art collection …
“The only good thing in the story is the girl,” felt Henry James about his 1880 novel, Washington Square. He disliked the book, calling it “an unhappy accident.” “The girl” is Ca…
There's also a short history of "The History Boys"; saying farewell to "Kinky Boots" on Broadway and a nod to awards season.
PICT Classic Theatre is gearing up for its season finale by giving patrons the opportunity to bask in the world of privilege.
PICT Classic Theater’s third and final production of their 2018-2019 season will be The Heiress, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Adapted from the novel, Washington Square by Henry Jame…
Make sure to head over to BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow as Lorene Chesley takes over and shows us around a two-show day at Arena Stage's production of The Heiress
From the moment she enters"decked out in widow's weeds and descending a carpeted stairway"Nancy Robinette commands attention. That's not unusual, since this actor"awarded the 2018 Helen Haye…
Director Seema Sueko has cast her production splendidly, with Laura C. Harris holding the spotlight as a whip-smart but paralyzingly anxious Catherine.
We knew about autism in 1947, when Ruth and Augustus Goetz translated Henry James’ “Washington Square” to the stage as The Heiress, but we understood it only as a sum-zero …
Women are on the move today. A US Congress reflects the voices of women as never before. #MeToo movements everywhere are fighting the forces that would stifle those voices. So, on the surfac…
On Valentine's Day this year, Arena Stage will open The Heiress, adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square by playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz. While the play may se…
Playbill looks back to when Jones, currently on Broadway in The Lifespan of a Fact, first broke out in her Tony-winning turn in The Heiress.
One Cézanne painting fetched $1.5 million at a Freeman's auction Sunday of Campbell heiress Dodo Hamilton's household items. The second part of the estate sale - including a 16.56-carat dia…
The season announcement by one of Washington's best known theater companies.
In the 19th century, Sarah Winchester was one of the queens of Connecticut's armaments industry, as the wife of gun-making scion William Winchester of New Haven. But her most enduring legacy…
NEW YORK " Dina Merrill, the rebellious heiress who defied her super-rich parents to become a movie star, often portraying stylish wives or "the other woman," has died at age 93.
The family of Dina Merrill Hartley confirmed Tuesday morning that the actress and philanthropist, an icon of taste and sophistication in both worlds, died at home Monday in East Hampton, NY,…
Merrill, the daughter of Wall Street broker E.F. Hutton and cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, went on to become a leading lady in movies. She died Monday at her home in East Hampton…