Philip Barry

The Westminster Community Theater marked its golden anniversary in 2011, and topping that playhouse's artistic achievements was a solid gold production of Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "The Shadow Box." Directed by Lenore Stjerne,...

Rebecca Brooksher (Lortel Award nomination Best Actress for Lincoln Center’s “Dying City”), Scott Bryce (twice nominated for a Best Actor Emmy Award for TV's "As the World Turns") and Kieran Campion (Westport Country Playhouse’s...

It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor. As the acid-tongued Lucio in the Bard's comedy, Rogers quipped, cast a wry eye and generally...

It's got all the dramaturgical creakiness and unabashed name-dropping one associates with famous-person-ruminating-onstage vehicles. But darned if Melissa Carlson's game-and-gamine turn for First Folio Theatre as Katharine Hepburn in Matthew Lombardo's...

She may only play a doctor on television, but actress Kate Walsh apparently knows good bones when she sees them. The Spanish-style gated estate in Los Feliz that she has listed at $4,295,000 retains its original 1929 details, such as an intricately tiled...

For the final production of its 50th anniversary season, the Westminster Community Theater has chosen a play whose vintage makes WCT look like the new kid on the block. Philip Barry's "The Philadelphia Story" first appeared during that brief period of...

A Brooklyn money manager was arraigned in court Tuesday after authorities charged him with operating a 30-year $45 million Ponzi scheme that allegedly pumped investors' money into a pornography mail order business. Philip Barry, 52, of Bay Ridge, is...

Horrible, horrible women are everywhere, just waiting for other women — lucky, lucky women — to exact revenge on their former employers by writing modern urban fairy tales about them. (Men do it, too, of course.) Sometimes these Manhattan-...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

Was Maurine Dallas Watkins a playwright masquerading as a Chicago Tribune reporter? Or was the originator of "Chicago" an ink-stained wretch who sold out her reporter's soul to show biz? It all depends on whose opinion you believe. This much is known...

Katharine Hepburn, who transcended her screen roles by showing several generations how to be a woman in a way that combined sublime beauty and sexuality with fiery intelligence, died Sunday. She was 96. Her executor, Cynthia McFadden, said Hepburn died...