PITTSFIELD — Playwright William Luce has fashioned a successful career writing one-person plays about notable figures in the arts — poet Emily Dickinson ("Belle of Amherst"), actor John Barrymore ...

I don’t know that I have ever read this good a rescue job. Columbia historian Alice Kessler-Harris’s biography of dramatist and screenwriter Lillian Hellman made me feel like a stupid cliché: just ...

A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist... Lillian Hellman: A 'Difficult,' Vilified Woman ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour, set in an all-girls boarding school, is getting a shot at the small screen with Anonymous Content and Bess Wohl adapting. The play was ...

In the summer of her 17th year, Rosemary Mahoney hired herself out as housekeeper to the writer Lillian Hellman. Almost two decades later, Mahoney has produced “A Likely Story,” an account of her ...

Lillian Hellman (1905-84) has not lacked for biographers. In “Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman” (1986), William Wright produced a credible first effort, concentrating on Hellman’s fraught ...

The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli The first coronavirus shutdown caught ...

The June 2 Another View column by Richard K. Brunner glorifying the goddess of the radical left, Lillian Hellman, and seeking an anti-McCarthy era epitaph for her, was sickening. Hellman’s literary ...