Simon Beaufoy's script for Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the Academy Awards on February 22, 2009. Other films in contention included The Curious Case of ...

The Last Station is a new film starring Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his wife. The Last Station is a film about the final troubled year ...

Three time Academy Award winning director and screenwriter Oliver Stone has produced many controversial and politically charged movies, but says: "I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas ...

The play Mother Courage by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) deals with the 17th century Thirty Years War. However, it is a play about all wars. The ...

The cycle of ancient Greek tragedies known as The Oedipus Plays was written over a 36-year period by the dramatist Sophocles, during the 5th Century, B.C. The cycle, which ...

During a career that has spanned over six decades, American author, dramatist, actor, social and political critic, Gore Vidal has produced countless influential novels, essays, and dramatic works for stage ...

Ben Jonson was a contemporary and rival of William Shakespeare, whose satirical plays are some of his most successful and well remembered works.

Ewan MacColl (25 January 1915 - 22 October 1989) was a British folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was the father of singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl ...