Dec 25th, 2008 · Playwright Harold Pinter came into prominence at a time when Tennessee Williams' and Arthur Miller's plays were being performed in the U.S. and Bernard Shaw and the Boulevard Comedies dominated London's West End. In contrast to the work at the time, Pinter's plays dealt with the theater of menace.
Dec 25th, 2008 · 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.
Dec 25th, 2008 · The Nobel Prize winning writer died Christmas day at the age of 78. He was widely viewed as one of the most influential British playwrights of his time.
Dec 25th, 2008 · Influential British playwright Harold Pinter, who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, died Christmas day at the age of 78 after a long battle with esophageal cancer.
Dec 9th, 2005 · In his Nobel Prize speech Wednesday, British playwright Harold Pinter delivered a scathing critique of U.S. and British foreign policy. Some reviews of his speech praised it for its dramatic force, while others derided it as childish and uninformed. We hear two excerpts from that speech.
Oct 16th, 2005 · The work of playwright Harold Pinter is most often recognized by Pinter's use of tense, aggressive dialogue, punctuated with long silences. Guest host Brian Naylor speaks with Tim Sanford, artistic director for the theater company Playwrights Horzions, about how Pinter has influenced the way playwrights use language.
Oct 15th, 2005 · Nobel laureate Harold Pinter is noted for his use of "silence" as a playwright. Long, tense pauses between his characters became a technique and a trademark of his plays, often making audiences squirm and wonder what people do not -- and perhaps cannot -- say to one another. We revisit one of Pinter's most well-known plays, Betrayal.
Oct 13th, 2005 · An excerpt from Harold Pinter's recent play, Voices, which premiered Oct. 10 on BBC's Radio 3, as part of the BBC's celebration of Pinter's 75th birthday. Voices is a collaboration between Harold Pinter and composer James Clarke.