Robert Bolt

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...

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...

NEW YORK — For much of Act I, Robert Bolt's celebrated drama of the martyrdom of Sir Thomas More fails to assert itself as a play for all seasons. Even with the superb Frank Langella in the title role, the Roundabout Theatre Company's production too...

Connecticut Repertory Theatre opens its 2008/2009 season with Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons," beginning tonight and running through Oct. 12 in the Nafe Katter Theatre in Storrs. Gary M. English, CRT's artistic director, stages the play set in...

MOVIES BODY OF LIES. Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio are CIA agents on a terrorist hunt. Opens Friday. See story on page CX. CITY OF EMBER. Bill Murray makes another foray into science fiction (don't forget "Ghostbusters") in this story about an...

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...

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,...

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....

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....

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...

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...