Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, receiving a slick and professional production at the American Conservatory Theater under Carey Perloff’s direction through Feb. 4, is a curious cultural artifact.

Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most celebrated and iconoclastic playwrights of the past 50 years, died Wednesday in London after a long battle with cancer.

Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright who addressed the isolation, fear and brutality of life in an original style that changed the face of 20th century theater, has died. He was ...

British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter -- who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- has died, his widow said Thursday ...

To visit him in his Holland Park home was to enter unwittingly into a Pinter play. After greeting me at the door of his office—which was in a separate cottage in the grounds of the house where he ...

British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter has died. He was 78. Pinter was known for his brooding portrayals of domestic life and his barbed politics. From NPR News, this is All Things ...

nepalnepal — Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter was buried at a London cemetery Wednesday in a small private funeral attended by family and close friends. Poems and excerpts from his plays ...

EXCLUSIVE: British actor Danny Dyer is to star in a Sky documentary about Harold Pinter as he prepares to tread the boards in the legendary British playwright’s The Dumb Waiter. Dyer, a charismatic ...

NOTHING in Harold Pinter's life explained the rage in him. A happy lower-middle-class childhood in an “immaculate house” in east London, the cherished only son of a Jewish tailor. Enjoyable years at ...

From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel. Sir Harold Pinter, playwright and 2005 Nobel Laureate, has died. Pinter was best known for such plays as "The Birthday Party" and "The ...

I think it depends how long you hold them. Pinter introduced the ambiguous power and terror of emotion that’s found between the lines—in the unspoken. And with ...