Robert Bolt

He is big. It's the plays that got small. If America had a national repertory theater, Frank Langella would be luxuriating now in the official ranks of theater royalty. Three decades after he oozed seductive grandiosity as the irresistible but trivial...

It could be the best of times; it might be the worst of times. No, really. A musical adaptation of"A Tale of Two Cities" - think "Les Miz" by way of Charles Dickens - kicks off the hectic and ambitious fall season in a couple of weeks. More to the point,...

Decapitation: it's the fad of the fall of Broadway! Just as Sydney Carton mounts the guillotine in "A Tale of Two Cities," Sir Thomas More is similarly led up the stairs to meet the axeman. But as it turns out, losing your head is not the equivalent of...

Where have all the new plays gone? On Broadway this fall, it will be a lonely pair -- To Be or Not to Be and Dividing the Estate -- that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry revivals such as Equus and All My Sons. To Be or Not to Be...

Amway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....

Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. Scofield, who had been suffering from leukemia, died Wednesday in a...

MORAL PASSION AND THE RULE OF LAW For those of us who lived it the trial was better theater than the play. The principal characters were the court and the accused. A canny and sensitive federal judge, Roszel C. Thomsen, obviously pleased to entertain...

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....

Conventional wisdom holds that "The Departed," by winning four Oscars, including best picture and director, was the big winner Sunday night at the Academy Awards. But for my money, the evening's truly triumphant were the screenwriters. Going beyond even...

"I only wish I were still in the movie business." That's Howard Hughes at his 1972 news conference, dialing in from the Bahamas to refute his purported autobiography, the one ostensibly written in conjunction with mythomaniac and Mailer-lite Clifford...

'MORE WOMEN died in the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz." Is this line more offensive to Jews than an editorial cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a turban bomb is to Muslims?...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...