The Baroness” which could more accurately be called “The Baroness and Rolf,” builds up two minor characters from the Rodgers ...

Maybe Happy Ending,” a rom-com musical about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday’s ...

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday.

South African playwright Athol Fugard has died. He wrote about life during and after apartheid in plays such as "Blood Knot" and "Master Harold... And The Boys." He was 92 years old. With more ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The Blood Knot" and "’Master Harold’ ...

While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa ...