The year is 1821, and the Park Theatre, run by an impresario named Stephen Price, shuts down the Grove’s production twice, ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, a small market town in eastern England, where her father edited the local newspaper. Joan Plowright after being made a Dame in 2004. Picture: AFP “You’re ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.

Beloved star of stage and screen Dame Joan Plowright - The widow of Lord Olivier was one of the outstanding actresses of her ...