Estelle Parsons

It ends its Broadway run today, but the Lincoln Center Theater production of Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" will find a new home at Hartford Stage. The acclaimed Broadway production, staged by Hartford Stage artistic director Michael Wilson, will...

Downtown Hartford is going to have the presence of another major arts institution. The New Britain Museum of American Art will have a satellite gallery as part of a renovation of the Pearl Street building that houses TheaterWorks and various small arts...

Paul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...

It's hard to believe that exactly one year ago, no one knew anything about Tracy Letts' family tragicomedy-melodrama "August: Osage County" other than the handful of raves it received during its Chicago premiere. Here was a new, three-hour-plus play by...

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood By Mark Harris Penguin, 490 pages, $27.95 By today's standards, the Academy Awards ceremony of April 10, 1968, was a tame affair. No one denounced a war or declined an Oscar to...

Random notes on the blissfully strike-free Oscars as less than a week of voting remains and there is evidence of some races tightening: One race that isn't is best picture, where a gallant attempt by "Michael Clayton" to overtake apparent leader "No...

John Waters went to a party last night with 20 of his closest friends and 779 people he'd never met. Perhaps only at the opening night bash for "Cry-Baby" might one find impeccably-coifed drag queens rubbing shoulders with movie stars. Sometimes, you...

As the second-term president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis tries to divide his time each day between academy headquarters in Beverly Hills and the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, where he's headquartered with his...

The last time New York received news from Horton Foote's quasi-fictional town of Harrison, Texas, it came in the form of exquisitely understated monologues from three elderly sisters in "The Carpetbagger's Children." Foote, astonishingly prolific at 88,...

'WHAAAR IS SAAHL-O- MAY? . . . Whaaar is th' prinsuss?" Yes, folks, Al Pacino is back - out there, loose - in the dramatic literature again. Other movie stars give lip service to the theater; this one puts his mania where his mouth is. One of the...

THE FIRST THING to notice at "Morning's at Seven" - after we marvel at the veteran star power of the cast list - is the set. We are meant to be in 1938 in small-town America but, in John Lee Beatty's bright picture-postcard backyard setting, the world...

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...