Few playwrights of the modern era have captured the paradox of human nature with as unsentimental an eye as Harold Pinter, who depicted in curiously menacing comedies the precarious balance between ...

Harold Pinter, who has died aged 78, was a playwright, poet, actor, director, and screenwriter, and the most original, stylish and enigmatic writer in the post-war revival of British theatre.

Katonah Classic Stage opened its impressive new season with The Pinter Play Festival. The opening show is Betrayal, turning the age-old story of an extramarital affair on its head because of the ...

Pinter 1 and Pinter 2 are already launched, featuring their own galaxy of acting talents. The first act of Pinter 1, directed by Lloyd himself, is often harrowing to watch, but these political pieces, ...

The Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. England’s Harold Pinter is a playwrighting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock. He can also pose ...

The Jamie Lloyd Company presents an extraordinary season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays on the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner's death, performed in the theatre that bears his name.

No one made silence a more potent force in playwriting than the late Nobel Prize-winning author Harold Pinter. In sinister, menacing works like “The Dumbwaiter,” “The Homecoming” and the pitch-black ...

Michael Smith’s January 12, 1967, Village Voice review of the U.S. premiere of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Music Box on Broadway. I several times ...

"Who supposes I'm striving for lucidity?" Harold Pinter wrote to a director who asked for clarifications on "The Birthday Party." The director was staging what became the first London production of ...