Elaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era underground scene in Chicago that gave us the O.G. “Saturday Night Live” cast and film director ...

FILE - Elaine May accepts the best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for "The Waverly Gallery" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, in New York. May is this year's ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Elaine May was the last to arrive and the first to leave at the Governors Awards on Friday in Los Angeles. Her fellow honorees, Samuel L. Jackson, Liv Ullmann and Danny Glover, all ...

“Whatever happened to Elaine May?” a Life magazine profile asked in 1967; the question is rephrased in typically pugnacious fashion in Carrie Courogen’s new biography as “What the hell happened to ...

"Elaine May might be the least sentimental woman storyteller since Flannery O'Connor in her stark refusal to sweeten the pill. If her relentless realism evokes the epic sweep of Erich von Stroheim's ...