From the daily newsletter: why the season’s plays and musicals are bringing an artistic and audience frenzy not seen in years ...

There was a period of time in 1966 when Neil Simon had four shows running simultaneously on Broadway: “The Odd Couple,” ...

A new film blending historical speculation with personal imagination puts a spotlight on Abraham Lincoln's private life.

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George Saunders’s critically acclaimed 2017 novel follows the death of Abraham Lincoln ... The night Lincoln was assassinated, he and Mary Todd were joined at Ford’s Theater by Clara Harris ...

The Telegraph presents the first of two parts on the life and successes of the late John Rohnert of Lexington, a 1940s boxing champion and 24-year Dawson County sheriff.

Mary, born in Louisville, KY, passed away on March 27, 2025. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Ila Bogard, brother Robert Bogard, and husbands Richard Todd and Russ Mooney.

I had one fresh fact, pulled out of Carl Smith’s book, “Chicago’s Great Fire": Mary Todd Lincoln was living here at the time of the fire. This floored me. I had no idea. Smith tucked that in ...