Maureen Stapleton

Peter Gallagher loves the old alley behind the Broadway theater where he's co-starring with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Some 30 years ago he was just starting out, appearing on this very stage in his first...

However the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...

"MAYBE I shouldn't say this, but so often during the last 30 years, you're trying to make something better than it is," actress Mare Winningham confides. "You're trying to find richness where there isn't any. You're trying to find complexity where there...

The most popular guy in Hollywood tonight is a dude who's a little over a foot tall and shiny. No, not E! red-carpet host Ryan Seacrest. It's Ocsar night, which means three-plus hours of showbiz people thanking their agents, publicists, families, co-...

Martin Scorsese's gangster epic "The Departed" was named the best picture of 2006 at the 79th annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening at the Kodak Theatre. Scorsese won his elusive first directing Oscar for the film, which also won for adapted...

Maureen Stapleton, whose lengthy career included Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony wins, died Monday (March 13). Stapleton was 80. According to media reports, Stapleton died from chronic pulmonary disease. Born in Troy, New York, Stapleton moved to the...

June 19: Actress Gena Rowlands is 69. R&B singer Al Wilson is 66. Singer Spanky MacFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang is 63. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 57. Singer Ann Wilson of Heart is 55. Actress Kathleen Turner is 51. Country singer Doug Stone is 49....

Paul Gleason, best known for playing the grumpy high school principal who presides over detention in the 1985 film "The Breakfast Club," has died. He was 67. Gleason died Saturday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of mesothelioma, a...

From The Times: Feb. 9, 1971 The 28th Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton was the kind of evening and entertainment that leaves the audience hoping for an encore. It was more of a fun event than any big awards ceremony I recall in recent years,...

The Belasco Theatre has a ghost. Stanley Tucci has a friend who swears he observed her wafting about. Edie Falco, wandering around the old Broadway house, "got completely creeped out in a stairwell just knowing about the possibility of running into...

By the time Rick McKay made it to New York in the '80s with dreams of becoming a singer, he discovered that the Broadway he had learned about in movies and TV while growing up in Indiana no longer existed. Imports, shows with prerecorded music and...

1. "Splendor in the Grass" (Elia Kazan; 1961) 4 stars Superb, vibrantly emotional drama of a blighted teenage love in 1920s small-town Kansas, with young Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis (played by off-screen lovers Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood) driven...