Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of ...

Actor Ronnie Marmo stars as comic Lenny Bruce in the one-person show he also wrote, “I’m Not a Comedian … I’m Lenny Bruce.” Courtesy Doren Sorell Photography. Social standards may have changed quite a ...

On Nov. 24, 1964, the Illinois Supreme Court did what no other state high court had ever done — it vindicated Lenny Bruce’s free speech right to perform provocative routines in comedy clubs. But the ...

Mr. Barry’s scripts for a hit Broadway play and later a Hollywood movie about that rule-breaking comic helped give Mr. Bruce a lasting place in pop culture lore. By Alex Traub Julian Barry, whose ...