Read more » LONDON — Playwright Arnold Wesker, known as one of the “Angry Young Men” of the British literary scene in the 1950s, has died at the age of 83.

Arnold Wesker’s 1959 play “The Kitchen,” set in the kitchen of a hectic London restaurant, helped define an era of English drama: It eulogizes the values of teamwork (read: socialist ...

British playwright Arnold Wesker came to prominence in the 1950s with stark dramas about working-class life. Many of his works were influenced by his childhood in a leftist Jewish family in London.

reporting from LONDON — Prolific British playwright Arnold Wesker, who drew on his heritage as a working-class Jew to create plays that captured the dialogue and struggles of the common man ...

Arnold Wesker, the prolific playwright and author of the 1962 play Chips with Everything, died on April 12, 2016, at the age of 83. He was best-known for his trilogy of plays Chicken Soup With ...

Sir Arnold Wesker "never lost his sense of human potential" says The Guardian's theatre critic Michael Billington Leading British playwright Sir Arnold Wesker, who came to prominence in the late ...