11 stories by "Alex Traub"
He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol's films, and made his apartment into a singular exhibit of Americana.
After she married Mark Rylance, the two often collaborated; her specialty was arranging music for Tudor-era plays. Then she wrote a period piece of her own.
Her passionate portrayal of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation won enduring acclaim. In 2023, she sued over the circumstances of a nude scene.
In an impoverished orphanage in Sierra Leone, she longed to dance ballet. After being adopted by American parents, her improbable dream came true.
She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for "Grease" (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more.
He brought an all-embracing enthusiasm to about 4,000 articles for The New York Times on modern dance, tap, ballet and practically every other genre.
After facing homelessness in his youth, he became an admired theater and television actor, playing tough and weathered but vulnerable characters.
Mr. Barry's scripts for a hit Broadway play and later a Hollywood movie about that rule-breaking comic helped give Mr. Bruce a lasting place in pop culture lore.
She and her husband invented a model for faithfully adapting acclaimed literature, illuminating an alternate path for independent cinema.
"Throw the note over your shoulder!" Debbie Harry, Kathleen Hanna, Justin Vivian Bond and other singers recall Barbara Gustern, a beloved vocal coach who was killed last month at age 87.
Steve Ross will always sing 'Always.' A certain Cole Porter tune still gives him a frisson. The entertainer, who could very well be the last of a dying breed, has devoted himself to the Grea…
