Peter Frechette

Today's Birthdays Author Gore Vidal is 83. Composer Steve Reich is 72. Singer Alan O'Day is 68. Rock 'n' roll star Chubby Checker is 67. Actor Alan Rachins is 66. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is 65. Magician Roy Horn is 64. Singer Lindsey Buckingham is...

A recent essayist on National Public Radio related how she and her five siblings took turns caring for their Alzheimer's-stricken mother. The rotating home care was fraught with tensions for all the family members, many of whom had been raised with...

Unless you count the preposterous box-office demand, there is nothing odd - or even a teensy bit peculiar - about "The Odd Couple." The hysterically anticipated revival, which opened its sold-out, six-month run last night at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre,...

IN HIS PROGRAM NOTE for this odd and irresistible new high-wire act of a play, Richard Greenberg makes an altogether disarming statement in his typically intriguing way. "'The Dazzle,'" he admits, "is based on the lives of the Collyer brothers, about whom...

An increasingly absorbing antidote to the concept of "spring cleaning," Richard Greenberg's play "The Dazzle" is based on Homer and Langley Collyer, who squirreled away much of their lives together in a Harlem mansion, surrounded and eventually swamped by...