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Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.

Several current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.

“These Seven Sicknesses,” a condensed adaptation of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.

God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.

In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne’s 1956 landmark play, “Look Back in Anger,” Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.

The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.

“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”

Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.

Three short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").

The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.

Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.

A closer look at the poster for the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of John Osborne's 1956 play.

One of Broadway’s greatest flops, “Carrie” is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.

A curator at the New York Public Library minutely analyzes the floppy disks left behind by Jonathan Larson, creator of the mega-hit musical "Rent.''

Lead producer Scott Rudin has pulled out of backing Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park," calling into question whether it will open on Broadway this spring.

Ms. Hilty will be playing the Lorelei Lee role made famous by Marilyn Monroe (and Carol Channing).

Ms. Neway, who won a Tony for “The Sound of Music,” was also heroine of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “The Consul.”

The theater company Van Cougar mashes up staged snippets of Hollywood war movies with testimonials from real-life veterans in “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din.”

“The Philanderer,” a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw about “advanced” relationships, is worth seeing, if only because of Shaw’s admission that the cad was something of a self-portrait.

Lincoln Center Theater will open its new Claire Tow Theater with "Slowgirl," a new play by Greg Pierce.