Playwright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included "Equus" and "Amadeus," has died at the age of 90. Shaffer's agent, Rupert Lord, says Shaffer died Monday while on a visit to ...

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Costume Design John Napier 2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Lighting Design David Hersey 2009 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design of a Play David ...

When Equus, a 1974 play by Peter Shaffer, returned to Broadway in 2008 after a successful revival in London, the sensation surrounding the stage debut of movie star Daniel Radcliffe—Harry Potter! Nude ...

Peter Shaffer's Equus starts with the stark news that a young man has blinded six horses — and the wild ride deep into his psyche easily sustains the play through to its conclusion. In Promethean ...

It's tempting to fixate on the "edginess" or "controversy" of Equus, Peter Shaffer's 1973 psychosexual exploration of a boy who deifies horses and yet willfully blinds a half-dozen of them, as if it ...

Peter Shaffer's Equus is an incredibly challenging play in which sex, religion, morality, family, society, psychology and the law collide with dramatic fury. The playwright imbues his work with a ...

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Costume Design John Napier 2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Lighting Design David Hersey 2009 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design of a Play David ...

Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning Equus is as unsettling today as it must have been when it premiered almost 40 years ago. ---Its violence and disturbing themes make it one... Peter Shaffer’s Tony ...