The events are expected to raise about $3 million. Tickets for the sold-out Foo Fighters event started at $250 per person. Entrance to the more intimate dinner is significantly costlier: $35,800 -- the maximum

Kazurinsky is best known for his 1981-84 "Saturday Night Live" stint. But propelled by the success of "About Last Night ..."— his and Denise DeClue's 1986 film adaptation of the David Mamet play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" — he had spent more than...

Jewish dramatists include Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Neil Simon; composers range from George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Leonard Bernstein to Jerry Bock and Stephen Sondheim. The critic-director Harold Clurman, who co-founded the...

Turns out the Boss read Walker Percy’s novels, too. I acquired my taste for O’Connor from Russell Kirk; maybe the Boss might start with some of Kirk’s literary criticism of T.S.Eliot, or his ghost stories, and then slide into The Conservative Mind? ...

The replies - Deb Margolin's Seven Palestinian Children, Richard Stirling's Seven Other Children - were not, like Churchill's play, on at the Royal Court but at less prestigious venues. It needed a writer of similar fame - Ronald Harwood, say, or David...

His play "Race," which opened on Friday at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, makes that point vividly as it takes on two topics Americans lie about all the time: Sex and skin color. Reveling in harsh, muscular language that practically blisters your...