In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1937, 17 people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge." (All were convicted; all but four were executed.) In 1943,...

Lydecker (Tom Reilly), a plumy, urbane sort, who makes his living as a writer. Reminiscent of the late Alexander Woollcott in personality, Lydecker pouts when he doesn't get his way and occasionally breaks things he loves. Perhaps someone could annoy...

And, every summer, they reveled in welcoming close friends. The Lunt’s idyllic retreat beguiled and inspired the country’s finest actors, writers and artists: Noël Coward, Helen Hayes, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Julie Harris, John Gielgud,...

It was Parker who reviewed Katharine Hepburn in a Broadway show: ''She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.'' Another review, of a play called I Am a Camera, consisted of three words: ''Me no Leica.'' But, if memory serves me, Alexander...

The same can be said for the Peccadillo Theater Company revival that opened last night — which treats this period farce with too much reverence and not enough lunacy. Playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart based their main character, Sheridan...