Call him a master wordsmith, formal innovator, Booker prize winner, Nobel laureate-in-waiting, a sorcerer. Call him Sir ...

For most of his adult life, stage legend and Oscar-winning actor Laurence Olivier swam daily. “He really made it a commitment,” recalls his son Richard Olivier to Closer. “He would swim 30 lengths, ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until ...

She won many accolades — and was honored with a damehood — during a seven-decade career on the London stage, in film and on Broadway. By Anita Gates “Maestro” isn’t the first time a supersize sniffer ...

Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth has created such a deep and varied collection of plays and films, it's hard to ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in her ...

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To play or not to play? This toy theatre was produced to help publicise Laurence Olivier’s Oscar-winning version of Hamlet. Ian McKellen remembers getting one for Christmas.

“Maestro” isn’t the first time a supersize sniffer set off a whiff of controversy. Here’s a look at the most notable schnozzes onscreen. By Sarah Bahr Acclaimed in Britain, he had the unique ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was ...