This Oscar®-nominated* adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play erupts on the screen with the same power and passion as the stage original. Richard Burton gives "one of his best ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Shaffer's play, Equus, won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play. His screen ...

On the eve of the first—and highly publicized—Broadway revival of "Equus," Broadway.com tunes out all that Harry-Potter-in-the-buff racket and recounts the history of Peter Shaffer's audacious drama.

Is it a blessing or a curse for the play Equus to always be identified with nudity? The one advantage to that is the fact that it always keeps people curious — and interested — and that can pack in ...

Both Burton and Firth were duly recognized with Academy Award nominations for their respective roles (neither won). Shaffer was also nominated for his writing, though the filmed adaptation seems to be ...

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included “Equus” and “Amadeus,” has died. He was 90. Shaffer’s agent, Rupert Lord, said the playwright died Monday ...

Incredibly, some three decades have passed since Peter Shaffer’s once-edgy “Equus” first awakened London and New York audiences to the steamy and sensual fusion of first-time sex, wide-eyed horses, ...

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Daniel Radcliffe is exposing himself in a big way on Broadway this month, and not just because the 19-year-old “Harry Potter” star is doing a nude scene in “Equus.” As a teenage stable boy in trouble ...

Peter Shaffer, the Oscar-winning playwright whose work included the award-winning drams “Amadeus” and “Equus,” died Monday, the Associated Press reported. He was 90. According to Shaffer’s agent ...