MARK KENNEDY

September 19, 2018 at 11:30 am

Editor of The New York Review of Books out after uproar

NEW YORK (AP) — The editor of The New York Review of Books has abruptly left his post following an outcry when the magazine published...

Business

September 9, 2018 at 6:29 pm

John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice now EGOT winners VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's live version of "Jesus Christ Superstar" won an Emmy Award on Sunday and that made three men extra happy —...

Nation & World

September 7, 2018 at 4:04 pm

Mac Miller, who collaborated with rap royalty, dies at 26

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mac Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, and earned...

Nation & World

August 26, 2018 at 12:41 pm

Gentle humor was the lifeblood of playwright Neil Simon VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — When master playwright Neil Simon accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006, he was visibly nervous. But his...

Nation & World

August 26, 2018 at 11:01 am

Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies at 91

NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," ''Barefoot in the Park" and his...

Nation & World

FILE — Neil Simon on the stage at the Music Box Theater on Broadway during preparations for his new play “Dinner Party,” in 2000. Simon, the playwright whose name was synonymous with Broadway comedy and commercial success in the theater for decades, and who helped redefine popular American humor with an emphasis on the frictions of urban living and the agonizing conflicts of family intimacy, died on Aug. 26, 2018. He was 91. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) XNYT15 XNYT15

August 26, 2018 at 8:46 am

Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies at 91 VIEW

In the second half of the 20th century, Simon was the American theater’s most successful and prolific playwrights, often chronicling middle-class issues and fears.