| 单词 | dramatist |
| 例句 | I spent all my time in the library, reading the Jacobean dramatists. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were musicians, dramatists, sculptors, dancers, and the practitioners of a hundred other smaller arts, even the lowest art of all: poetry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Great thinkers, teachers, writers, dramatists, and artists shaped its colorful past. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Mr. Stone, an Australian director and dramatist, has transplanted Lorca’s poetic folk tale of a provincial Spanish woman’s yearning to have a child into the London of today. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z He was among a number of acclaimed dramatists — including David Henry Hwang and Jeremy O. Harris — who spent a weekend phoning and emailing union leaders. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z And, in his presentation of the state-of-the-nation argument, Rattigan follows Hebbel's classic injunction to dramatists that "in a good play, everyone is right". Less Than Kind 2011-01-24T18:09:40Z That is a fair if incomplete description of Mr. Kushner, one of the most linguistically luxuriant dramatists of our time. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z It's just that even the Bard himself would have his work cut out as a dramatist in clearing the daunting obstacles that have been placed in the path of the luckless lovers, Carrie and Brody. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z “I’m a musician, I’m a songwriter, I’m a dramatist, so how can I use those tools to create something that hopefully provokes people into action but also provides an emotional catharsis?” Finding Music in Shakespeare, Suffragists and Mitch McConnell 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z LG The hot political play of the summer, in which David Edgar becomes the first dramatist to deal head-on with the politics of the Con-Lib Coalition. The best theatre for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:20:01Z For in doing so, he is laying bare a problem he has not been able to solve as a dramatist. | 'The Pitmen Painters': Stoking a Fiery Passion for Art 2010-10-01T02:01:00Z A British dramatist whose career flourished in the years after World War II, Rattigan built up a reputation for the kind of well-mannered craftsmanship that can seem old-fashioned today. ‘In Praise of Love’: A second look at the 1970s play’s retorts and tear-jerkers 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z I explained at some length what was known about Shakespeare as a co-author, and how the culture of playwriting at the time precluded collaborations between professional dramatists and aristocrats like Oxford. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Did that present problems for you as a dramatist? Oliver Stone returns to "more complex" "Wall Street" 2010-10-14T03:30:00Z It was already clear that Mr. Stoppard was a dramatist of a singular intellectual stripe, with his academic antics and cascading epigrams, suggesting a genius prankster run amok in an Oxbridge library. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The play is a novice effort by a fledgling dramatist, but it isn’t helped by Mr. Staller’s additions to the text, which have none of Shaw’s comic acerbity. Review: In ‘Widowers’ Houses,’ Loving a Slumlord’s Daughter 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The 77-year-old dramatist has been behind enduring hits such as House of Cards and Bleak House, and - more recently - Mr Selfridge. Broadchurch in awards hat-trick 2014-03-28T12:01:13Z That the nation puts onstage, on average, one play by a woman for every four by male writers is disturbing, if you reflect on how discouraging to a young female dramatist the percentages must seem. Challenging the gender status quo in American theater 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Wohl is a dramatist we will no doubt be hearing a lot more from in the future. Astute 'Barcelona' at the Geffen Playhouse leaves audiences guessing 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The early 19th century is littered with the bodies of romantic dramatists who wrote about killing. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z So obviously, it's a bit of a gift to a dramatist because the trappings of that era of journalism are so seductive and beautiful. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z What is the dramatist asking a protagonist or set of characters to undergo? Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Rory Mullarkey is 25, the youngest dramatist to have work produced on the theatre's main stage, and his play Cannibals has set its sights on big beasts. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z He, too, is an award winning dramatist of Pakistani heritage who comes of age after 9/11 in an America steeped in Islamophobia. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z I like to think I'm more of a lyricist than a dramatist. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z Mr. Mamet, who had a brief stint selling real estate in Chicago, dedicated “Glengarry” to the British dramatist Harold Pinter, whose plays are ferocious battles where the weapons of choice are cryptic statements. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z From Strindberg onwards dramatists have realised the power of unbroken action. Theatre intervals: is it curtains? 2011-03-01T16:45:47Z But the terrible choice the dramatist foists on the mother feels heavy-handed, and that she gets only one chance to explain herself lends to a sense of a character being underserved. Review | ‘Doubt’ covered child abuse in the church a decade and a half ago. It’s still relevant. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It seemed like a bizarre conjunction, that of a Gaelic dramatist and an American balladeer. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The dramatist has already been represented on Broadway by “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations,” due to return on Oct. Review | These 3 new D.C. shows show why online theater is more interesting than ever 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z In retrospect, though, In the Loop had revealed a new aspect of the talent of Ianucci and his writing team: the ability to be Cassandra dramatists, anticipating political reality. The Thick of It: the TV programme of 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:06Z They are all directed by their author, one of Britain’s best-loved dramatists and perhaps its most staggeringly prolific. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And studying the work of dramatists like Miller gave him his path. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Miller, by comparison, seemed too rigid, a dramatist whose determination to force his point of view on audiences stirred only resistance in van Hove. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In “Pinter at the Pinter Seven” — expertly directed by Jamie Lloyd and the final offering of a much-lauded season devoted to the dramatist’s short plays — it has been paired with the better-known “The Dumb Waiter.” At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Now it seems faintly cringe-making coming from a dramatist who so loved Britain that he spent the last 20 years of his life as a tax exile. This Happy Breed ? review 2011-07-27T17:30:04Z But because “The Maids” was written by Jean Genet, one of the most subversive dramatists ever, sentimentality doesn’t figure in this coruscating one-act drama from 1947. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z Pope argues that the true-crime wave involves dramatists and documentary makers directing viewers, like motorists who have slowed for a crash, away from gawping. 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The writers may be abusing their privilege as dramatists to connect the Palace of Justice siege to Escobar’s desire to torch incriminating documents therein. 'Narcos' Episode 4 Recap: Extradition Blues 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Bennett puts more into a drifting three-quarters of an hour than most dramatists, himself included, manage in a long evening of tightly structured drama. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z The most storied platform for theater in the country — maybe the world — is no longer the place that many of the most accomplished dramatists think of as a natural haven for their work. Perspective | As tourist-friendly musicals take over, Broadway no longer belongs to playwrights 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The ecosystem of the O’Neill, a 55-year-old nonprofit organization named for one of the nation’s greatest dramatists, is designed to nurture a brainchild of this sort. Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Writer-director Hugo Blick is one of the most distinctive TV dramatists around, creating ambitious series including the The Honourable Woman and The Shadow Line. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Just last month, the first new play of the shutdown by a major dramatist premiered online: Richard Nelson’s riveting “What Do We Need to Talk About?” under the aegis of off-Broadway’s Public Theater. Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The range, too, of what these dramatists are producing has been stunning. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z ME The side of right and virtue and truth and beauty, of course, the side of the greatest dramatist and poet who ever trod the earth. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z As for Mr. McPherson, one of the greatest dramatists working, he, too, seems to be traveling through the dark without a compass. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z If Edward Bond were ever to write a Broadway musical — not bloody likely — this one would at least register within the behavioral framework to which the English dramatist, now 77, has devoted his career. Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z Richard Wagner: composer, conductor, dramatist, poet, polemicist, anarchist, Teutonic nationalist, anti-Semite, feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights activist — the man was the walking, talking definition of “protean genius.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z If Oscars voters are in a more discerning, wealth-spreading mood, expect Bafta champ Lonergan – hailed as one of the American cinema’s great working dramatists – to take this for richer, more rounded character work. 'And the Oscar will go to' … who shall win the 2017 Academy Awards, and why 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “There’s a real loss at his leaving,” said Sarah Ruhl, a major dramatist embraced over the years by Shalwitz, who produced several of her plays, including the world premiere of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z But oh, for a time when living American dramatists don't need to draft plays as if they're planning a dinner party with room for just four, six, even 10 guests at the table! Critic's notebook: In a time of cutbacks, some love for the big cast on stage 2011-08-10T19:48:03Z Through the ages, novelists, dramatists and screenwriters have had the freedom to explore these moral questions, and to show how the law and human morality are sometimes aligned and sometimes in direct conflict. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z While some filmmaking disciplines reward experience — many other types of directors, like dramatists, get better as they become more seasoned -- science fiction is about concepts. 'Chappie': Who do so many sci-fi helmers lose heat on their fastball? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The prize, a highly prestigious recognition for an American dramatist, is granted each spring for “a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” Pulitzers to Consider Canceled Plays and Streamed Productions for 2021 Prize 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Puccini is the model, though he was a more savvy dramatist who saved soaring melodies for crucial moments. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “And she really is the most successful dramatist of the avant-garde working today.” Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z This week the Rep celebrates its 50th anniversary season with the debut of "Pullman Porter Blues" by Seattle dramatist Cheryl West. A look back at 50 years of Seattle Rep 2012-09-28T17:21:06Z Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z But as a dramatist, he gets to write a big-hearted letter of apology to loved ones who suffered from the awfulness of a boy on the brink of adulthood. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z After a witty prologue that includes the quip “Critics only go to the theater to see what goes wrong,” an aspiring dramatist invites two critics to see a rehearsal for a tragedy, “The Spanish Armada.” Signature names librettist John Weidman as Sondheim Award winner 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Bourgeois is an acrobat and dramatist of physics. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z In prospect, this gave a comfortable, orderly feeling to the idea of being a British dramatist. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z He was also a dramatist, it could be said. Underworld dandy: Sebastian Horsley dies, aged 47, of suspected overdose 2010-06-17T16:27:00Z In a sensational return to the New York stage, Ms. Plummer is all quicksilver shifts of theatrical style and emotional substance in this late, demented work from one of America’s few genuinely great dramatists. Theater Review: Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity 2013-06-21T20:53:00Z Mr. Thorne interjected: “It takes Harry a while to see why those names are a burden, which, from a dramatist’s point of view, is amazing.” How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z A stale jumble of a play, it’s not exactly Shakespeare’s best work, and many scholars believe he shares authorship with the dramatist George Wilkins. ‘Pericles’ Review: Shakespeare in the Blender 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Plays such as “The Home Place,” “Aristocrats” and “Translations,” all set in Ballybeg, established him as a dramatist whose pessimism was tempered with an infectious warmth, generosity and sense of fun. Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The dramatist Dennis Potter said of it in the 1970s, “I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.” Books of The Times: The Inner Lives of Airports and Those Who Wander Through Them 2010-10-26T15:34:00Z Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian. “Refreshingly Honest”: Cate Blanchett on Working with Woody Allen 2013-07-18T16:16:38Z But as in all of this dramatist’s works, there are delicate feelings at its center, and they need to be handled with care. Review: Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Taking on such an emotive topic inspires a strong sense of responsibility amongst dramatists. Dramatising dementia 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The idea of a fresh contribution from a dramatist as perennially stage-struck as Mr. Gurney certainly gave reason to hope. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z He’s not the most dynamic of dramatists, however, and what made those films special was casting — Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen in “The Queen,” Mr. Sheen and Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon.” Review: ‘The Crown’ Season 2 Takes the Queen From Crisis to Crisis 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But certainly, given the popularity of the true-crime genre, it’s easy to see why dramatists are repeat offenders, drawn again and again to adapting high-profile real-life crime cases for the screen. 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z “The supreme virtue of ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ Lorraine Hansberry’s new play, is its proud, joyous proximity to its source, which is life as the dramatist has lived it.” Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z We've always known it wasn't a historically accurate depiction: Shakespeare was a dramatist, not a historian. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z Survivors of Gatz will not shrink at the idea of a nine-hour day spent watching three plays by the great Irish dramatist, Tom Murphy. Druid Murphy – review 2012-06-24T17:00:03Z First of all, it proposes the Russian dramatist as a sort of precursor to the Irish Nobel Prize winner in his examination of futility as an existential component of human life. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Sympathetic to him and to Paul Foster, another aspiring dramatist, she began a theater in 1962 in the basement of a tenement on East Ninth Street. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z The writer, in this instance, is Christina Masciotti, a downtown dramatist of rigorous personal style whose following includes a lot of theatergoers who consider Broadway a wasteland. Review: ‘Raw Bacon’ Finds Fearful Poetry in an Iraq War Vet’s Mind 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It's a perennially moving play that justifies Rattigan's reluctance, as a product of his time and class, to resist being labelled a gay dramatist: what really matters is his profound understanding of the wounded heart. The Deep Blue Sea ? review 2011-07-26T17:31:57Z It should impel everyone to recognise the dramatist's political dynamism, prophetic soul and bitter subtlety. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z And he concluded with this assessment of Ms. Lamb’s abilities as a dramatist: “I am told that Miss Lamb is a feminist playwright. I am willing to believe she is a feminist.” Myrna Lamb, Feminist Playwright in an Unwelcoming Era, Dies at 87 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Other dramatists were subtler and more circuitous in their attack on Thatcherite values. Thatcher casts a long shadow 2013-04-08T15:44:23Z That of course was Willy Loman’s tragedy, too, in “Death of a Salesman,” and the tragedy of any number of characters created by Arthur Miller and countless other dramatists, including August Wilson. | 'The Truth: A Tragedy': Cynthia Hopkins Excavates Her Father?s Life 2010-05-14T04:08:00Z The chapters of the life and personae of Ms. Schreck — a successful dramatist and television writer — are not clearly drawn. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He’s a dramatist and a linguist who can be glorious about the ordinariness and misery of duty and work. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Sir David Hare is almost certainly the premiere political dramatist writing in English, yet last weekend he slinked through Washington almost unnoticed. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z To screenwriters and dramatists, it’s a city dominated either by virtue or venality, a place where the political classes operate out of a sense of the greater good — or are just plain operators. In Washington, the drama never ends It helps that the personalities involved in those 10 TV debates were William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, two richly articulate men of any dramatist’s dreams. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z And behind the play one senses the compassionate understanding for the outcast that was always Rattigan's trump card as a dramatist. Review 2011-03-30T00:28:39Z As the author of a work of nonfiction, Mr. Wilson was neither a dramatist like Mr. Osborne nor a novelist like Mr. Amis. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z Here are five dramatists at whom we should take another look. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Since this is a work by Mr. LaBute, who as a filmmaker and dramatist loves to play nasty games in the dark, we are prepared to assume the worst. Review: ‘The Way We Get By’ After a One-Night Stand 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z As a dramatist, she experiences, for the first time, complete power over others. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Devoted to artifice, reality-bending theatrical devices and critique of political and social mores, RuPaul and 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht have surprisingly analogous roots. The epic theater of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: The surprising intellectual rigor behind TV’s most campy competition 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z From this simple yet radical notion of believing dramatists worthy of retrospective attention, Signature Theatre Company was born. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z All three of the evening's French soloists were remarkable dramatists like Haïm, interacting with everyone onstage. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Novelists and dramatists tend to talk of villages as microcosms; the universal emotions are all there, but helpfully boundaried and with some pretty scenery to boot. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z I think it's because Inarritu is a sensationalist more than a dramatist. 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z You can see bright sparks, though, of the mature dramatist in the making, as well as flashes of the trenchant wit and contemplative melancholy that would become his signature. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z We were there to see the professional debut of a young dramatist called Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, who, rather dramatically, was flying back to China after the seven weekend performances of her work. My rural escape from election panic and hype 2010-05-03T08:00:00Z Baldwin, a towering literary figure, found less success as a dramatist, partly because of the mostly white cultural gatekeepers of the ’60s and ’70s. ‘Raisin in the Sun’ and ‘Harder They Come’ to Be Part of Public Theater Season 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Steve Waters was the first dramatist to comprehensively tackle global warming with The Contingency Plan. Little Platoons ? review 2011-01-25T18:30:04Z Ayckbourn himself, I suspect, would react with mild horror to the idea that he is a political dramatist. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z Directed by Jonathan Kent, from sharp-witted translations by the British dramatist David Hare, these productions show how slapstick and self-lacerating angst breathe the same romantic oxygen in Chekhov’s universe. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z It's the combination of both elements, of punk and politics, that makes Stenham such an interesting dramatist. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z Although it was Gross's work that the judges were rewarding, the poet, novelist and dramatist said the book would never have happened without Denison's "extraordinary" photographs. Philip Gross wins the Wales Book of the Year award 2010-07-01T11:34:00Z But thanks to dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, that is about to change. Tracey Ullman returns to London stage for Stephen Poliakoff play 2011-07-23T23:07:56Z It's a resolution she has stuck to through the quarter century in which she has established herself as one of theatre's most innovative and provocative dramatists. Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z A special fascination attaches to the early work of celebrated dramatists: you invariably get a first sketch of their lifelong obsessions. The Young Idea ? review 2011-02-16T18:17:47Z Not everyone will agree with my assessment that he was America’s best dramatist since Williams. Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Sagan’s sense of emotional tragedy is indeed that of the great dramatists. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Lucienne Hill began to translate Anouilh at the behest of Laurence Olivier Lucienne Hill, who has died aged 89, was best known for her translations of the French dramatist Jean Anouilh. Lucienne Hill obituary 2013-01-17T18:30:51Z But he also goes places intellectually and dramatically that no left-wing dramatist would dare. Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now 2010-03-11T05:34:00Z But instead of telling us what to think, he questions how we are thinking, and like any first-rate dramatist, he ends up humanizing the way we see the world. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It is always a challenge for a dramatist when a character is more or less a passive victim. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z As admirers of Beckett have observed, this intransigence results in a dramatist remarkable for his originality now trapping presentations of his work in the past. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z Such blurring of emotions is what makes Chekhov the greatest dramatist since Shakespeare, and also the hardest to get right in performance. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z A sense of discovery and inspiration often came from smaller companies and one-off productions, and some intriguing new plays by local dramatists. Footlight Awards: honoring 2012’s best in performing arts 2012-12-27T19:23:58Z Part of the problem, surely, is that Jelinek's most vital work has been as a dramatist; almost none of her plays has made it into English, and theater in America is even deader than publishing. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z And the dramatist — who is only 22 — bends a cannily withering gaze on America’s bridal-motherhood-domesticity industry. Reviews: ‘Trish Tinkler Gets Saved’ and ‘The Long Way Around’ 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z As the 1980s progressed, more and more dramatists explored the psychology and consequences of Thatcherism. Thatcher casts a long shadow 2013-04-08T15:44:23Z But perhaps more than any American dramatist working today, Mr. Bradshaw walks — no, make that tramples — the lines that divide the good, the bad and the plug-ugly, both in art and in life. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z A prolific dramatist, he said he was “horrified” by the long gap between “Rock ’n’ Roll” and “The Hard Problem.” With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In the 1870s, he encouraged the composer Arthur Sullivan to collaborate with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Nor does an added tableau, loosely based on the dramatist's afterword, in which Eliza, peering through a veil as voluminous as a mosquito net, marries Freddy. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z This is a place, governed by the playful and perverse sensibility of the dramatist and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, where the picturesque and the profane intermingle, where jaunty humor keeps company with gruesome violence. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z At regular intervals, he offers a phrase or two that show why he is a cut above other ballet dramatists today, but equally often, he is content with dance clichés. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Lost Illusions’ Is Shown as a Broadcast 2014-03-04T22:34:42Z This dramatist is sunk in his own gloom. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z A big one, say the Map of Literature, which catalogues more than 7,000 writers, poets and dramatists over 5,000 years, takes three or four months. Fantasy map-making: 'I like vintage style with a modern twist' 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z As a dramatist in music, Loewe endows characters with voices that are sometimes homespun in their sincerity, sometimes unabashedly flamboyant. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Dancing On The Edge … set in London in 1932, it deals with many of the dramatist's familiar themes. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z And I think a dramatist can do the same thing in Vietnam or Afghanistan or wherever. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z They will simultaneously perform, read aloud, read to themselves, discuss and respond to eight new plays written for us by some of the UK's leading dramatists in response to October's comprehensive spending review. Theatre Uncut is set for a grand finale, but the anger that inspired it will linger 2011-03-17T17:55:49Z Already planned for next year are new commissions by celebrated dramatist Mark Ravenhill and the young writing team of Daisy Evans and Louis D'Heudières. Small pub, big opera 2010-10-18T15:01:00Z South Coast Repertory offered an outstanding production of "Circle Mirror Transformation," the play that transformed Baker from a downtown New York trailblazer to a dramatist of national renown. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z But it's a dramatist's role, and the dramatist's role is very hard to understand. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z Although Wise was playing a very bad dramatist, the sketches in which he did so showed Braben to be accomplished at the art. How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z For any contemporary novelist or dramatist constructing a courtroom drama, this is the first problem: backstory. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z The actor and dramatist Robert Michael Morris had been King’s theatre teacher at college, before becoming a professional actor later in life. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z There’s a story behind that story: the continuing importance of Off Broadway as the cultivating ground for America’s best dramatists. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z As a dramatist, Ms. Skinner might be described as a fatalist feminist. Review: In ‘Linda,’ the Lures and Snares of Leaning In 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The finals of the 2011 competition, which invites young actors to perform speeches from plays by the late Seattle dramatist, took place May 9 at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. Timberline student shines in August Wilson contest 2011-05-14T02:46:04Z Washington is just emerging from an unprecedented citywide Women’s Voices Theater Festival premiering dozens of new works by female dramatists. Most foul: Senator singles out Synetic’s ‘silent’ Shakespeare 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Bachelder’s reliance on sub-rosa psychological churnings partly reflects his strengths as a novelist: he excels as an analyst of the anxieties that undergird social mores rather than as a dramatist of extravagant scenes. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In 1954 Arikha decided to settle in Paris, his home for the rest of his life, partly at the instigation of his friend the dramatist Samuel Beckett, whom he first met backstage in a theatre. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z A novelist or dramatist chooses when the final full-stop comes; a TV screenwriter is at the mercy of ratings, advertisers and actor availability. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces that explore the lives of dramatists and the world of theatre. Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z And as with the wealth of blues and folk bands that surrounded the Beatles in 1960s England, other London dramatists did some things better, or more emphatically, than Shakespeare. Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z But Ms. Birch, 29, is descended from a longer line of British dramatists who provided catharsis for themselves and like-minded audiences by raging in style against the status quo. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Morgan has built his career as a dramatist on the royals. The British royal family is struggling through scandals. Can ‘The Crown’ help? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z That phrase, which gives a dramatist the license to toy with facts in search of a larger meaning, must go back to Euripides. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Respectability and vagabondage are fighting it out in Victorian society, as they did in Pinero himself, the stage-struck clerk turned dramatist. Fences; Trelawny of the Wells; Richard III – review 2013-03-03T00:05:30Z "Silence," the book's opener, takes its inspiration from an entry in Henry James' notebooks about an anecdote James heard from Lady Gregory, the Irish dramatist and folklorist. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z He is now one of Britain's finest and most prolific dramatists, producing around a play a year. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z Here, she proved herself a master of phrasing and a killer dramatist besides. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z Paradise may be a great place to live in, but its implicit lack of conflict makes it a lousy home for a dramatist. 'Shall We Play That One Together?': The life of piano jazz legend Marian McPartland 2012-10-03T21:01:05Z At the height of his unique fame as a dramatist, Wilde was sent to prison on a charge of gross indecency with rent boys. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Russell and co went from being edgy dramatists who were politically on the money to being folksy Liverpudlians peddling the dream that anyone can better themselves if they really want to. Willy Russell: let's have a rethink | John Crace 2010-04-06T10:31:00Z But as Broadway looms, her nerves are jangling, and she wonders how audiences will react to an American story told by a British dramatist. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z When the dramatist's research uncovers lies and distortions, should he tell the truth and maintain his integrity or write what the government wants, so that his head stays attached to his neck? Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z His colours, brushstrokes, stories, characters – for he is a dramatist in paint – blaze with urgency and excitement. Titian doesn't actually need sexing up – the week in art 2012-07-06T11:17:18Z More than any other dramatist, Henrik Ibsen is on both a social and psychological edge. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z He was a one-off, quite unlike any other dramatist. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z ACT Theatre on Friday opens its Pinter Festival, dedicated to the work of the late British dramatist and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. ACT Theatre celebrates Pinter with monthlong festival 2012-07-19T20:12:10Z But a fictional theater troupe helps humanity address a devastating drought in “The Fire and the Rain,” a marvelous play by Girish Karnad, one of India’s leading contemporary dramatists. A play packed with action, pathos, romance and supernatural goings-on 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z But Strindberg, who held to the courage of his perversity, tweaked that formula like no other dramatist before him in his naturalistic plays from the late 1880s. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z This was appropriate because, as well as being one of British TV's key dramatists, he also operated for five decades as a sort of drama cop. Mark Lawson on Alan Plater: 'Bright, socialist and proudly northern' 2010-06-25T16:01:00Z Any budding dramatist could learn a vast amount from the economy and skill with which Ayckbourn sets up the situation. Absent Friends - review 2012-02-10T00:30:17Z All this is established by Ayckbourn with the deftness of a born dramatist. Snake in the Grass ? review 2011-02-15T18:44:00Z Woody Allen may be an adventurous film-maker, but as a dramatist he strikes me as derivative. Writer's Block 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z Obviously, dramatists play with time lines, pausing action over here that might take minutes to allow other things to transpire over there that need to take hours or days. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The intention of the Custom Made Play Project is to devise scripts through extended collaborations between Seattle actors and dramatists. Sisters face off in play set in Ballard 2012-12-13T22:01:04Z In each scene, Titian proves himself an ingenious dramatist, telescoping past, present and future events within a single incident. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z That two leading English dramatists turned in such close succession to a minor work disowned by its creator illustrates the British hunger for more Chekhov. Why Chekhov has never been busier 2013-03-20T13:26:32Z The script was written by the American dramatist William Saroyan, who would win a Pulitzer Prize that year. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame On the rare occasions a British theatre examines a single dramatist, I haven't noticed any falling off in attendance. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z Graham, 36, has been hailed as one of the most prominent British political dramatists of the age. Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Shepard, of course, went on to movie stardom and success as a major American dramatist. How Sam Shepard Hit Downtown New York and Reinvented Himself 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z There, he observed Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and others at work and decided on a career as a dramatist. Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z After years as a starving dramatist, with "just enough success to keep me suckered," Black began doing impromptu spiels, inspired by current events, at a New York theater cabaret he ran with friends. Lewis Black talks pollen, politics and his play at ACT Theatre 2012-06-07T20:49:04Z It’s one of many sharp lines from the mind of a dramatist who knows his Chekhov up and down. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Supreme classicist, supreme modernist and still underrated as a superlative Romantic and dramatist, he remains ballet’s dominant figure. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Lahr's trenchant handling of Williams' struggle, the cautionary tale of a dramatist chasing an elusive vision in an art form with relentless commercial pressures, should be required reading for fledgling playwrights. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z One is that he is essentially a naturalistic dramatist, when he strikes me as someone who restlessly experiments with different forms as if trying to find the perfect vehicle for his ideas. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z "Tom Stoppard is often characterised as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship," wrote suave freelance hack Leon Benjamin in a digest of theatre reviews for the Guardian website. What to say about ... The Real Thing 2010-04-23T14:48:00Z In “Moment by Moment,” Wagner reveals herself to be more than a subtle dramatist and a discerning director of actors. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z As well as looking for the next generation of dramatists, it’s also offering the classics, such as this Radio 4-ish selection, comprising Sophocles’s Oedipus Cycle, plus three evergreen plays each from Chekhov and Ibsen. The Making of a Massacre and canned laughter – podcasts of the week 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z That the events in that Chicago courtroom are such catnip to dramatists is understandable — it was, in many ways, performative in nature, with heroes and villains and court jesters aplenty. The Chicago 7 Trial Onscreen: An Interpretation for Every Era 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sam Shaw/Rex Features When dramatist Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Wall Street Journal obituary was headlined "The Great Pretender: Arthur Miller wasn't well liked – and with good reason". Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z “Bad Religion” mourns a break-up with an unnamed “he,” but Ocean’s boldness is matched by his artistry as a vocal dramatist and nuanced lyricist. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z Washington theatergoers familiar with WSG know that the troupe usually focuses on classics by dead white men, with an emphasis on dramatist George Bernard Shaw. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Together, they represent the breadth of this dramatist’s interests. John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z The script is by James Graham, a fair-haired young dramatist of London, who did the sensational study in parliamentary politics “This House” at the National Theater. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Because it’s a sure bet that the gentleman who declared himself unable to take any more wasn’t the only spectator struggling with the dramatist’s portrait. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipton is not the only dramatist who got an early start at Clubbed Thumb. At Clubbed Thumb, Nurturing a Theater of the Weird 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In the very old days, television was a seen as a great compromise for serious dramatists. ArtsBeat Blog: A 'Big Love' Creator Takes on a Different Family 2011-08-12T18:30:25Z In his 1980 memoir, “A Double Bill,” Mr. McCowen noted that Mark had “constructed his Gospel with the skill of a great dramatist.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Yet the dramatist believed that it was the work in which he revealed the most of himself. | 'The Really Big Once': ?Camino Real,? Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan 2010-04-19T21:52:00Z “I knew I wanted to be a dramatist and I knew that was what I was excited about, so I just pushed myself to do the harder stuff,” she said. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Shakespeare is one of the very few dramatists who seems to have observed that women have more moral courage than men. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z ‘ESCAPED ALONE’ In which the revolutionary British dramatist Caryl Churchill demonstrated once again her ability to reinvent the English-speaking play with every work she writes. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The first is that an extraordinary number of our most significant TV dramatists had to take a train south when they first came to London. Grimetime TV: why the north rules 2011-08-03T20:30:00Z This, TV dramatists, is the way to go. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z And this year it has gone even further in reviving a work by the only major dramatist regularly to have taken Christmas as a subject: Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings. Theatre's tinsel pound makes children of us all again 2010-12-03T21:00:00Z Lubitsch was a supreme comic stylist and he gets a fine performance from Miriam Hopkins as a woman simultaneously attracted to a painter and a dramatist. What I'm really watching: golden age Hollywood comedies 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z We might just have found our own Charlie Kaufman in Nick Whitfield, a former stage dramatist who has made his feature-film debut, Skeletons ... it's intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny. Guardian First Film award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:44:00Z Though Miller "became the enemy of the avant-garde" dramatists of the 1960s, Bigsby argued that Two-Way Mirror was "as radical as anything else going on at the time". Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z By far the busiest group of original audio dramatists, however, are the small-scale podcasters. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z On the other hand, probably avoid Aeschylus's Oresteia or anything by the German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z You may quibble at the way Sebastian, knowing Lydia's background, seems indifferent to Soviet imperialism, and, for a dramatist of Rattigan's skill, there is excessive dependence on confidential papers hidden in a hatbox. In Praise of Love ? review 2011-04-06T17:59:43Z Being a TV dramatist these days trying to pitch an idea that doesn't feature the police or a murder must be rather like being a policeman who doesn't want to arrest criminals. Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review 2013-05-11T17:00:05Z In their latest reincarnation, they still come across as minor works from a major dramatist. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z With the major exception of Edward Albee, Broadway dramatists did not much take up Wilder’s surrealistic thread in the next few decades. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z I knew of Grimké as a noted Harlem Renaissance poet, but not as a dramatist. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Intriguingly, another dramatist who had once been a member of the Young Communist League and had served in the RAF wrote to Wesker in 1960, praising his early plays. Arnold Wesker: food for thought 2012-05-21T18:30:02Z Once recast as L’Hotel in the 1960s, it became watering hole de choix for glitterati, including the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, the French poet, dramatist, screenwriter and novelist. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In the Underworld imagined by dramatist Erin Bregman, each human existence eventually manifests itself as an orange; when a given life span ends, Death peels the fruit and eats it. In the life-without-death play ‘A Bid to Save the World,’ oranges are the new black 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Garcia, a summer intern at the American Alliance for Theater and Education, was looking at the page for Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatists. Museum Welcomes Wikipedia Editors 2013-07-26T21:54:45Z There is, for starters, Pinter’s description of his increasingly direct political engagement as a dramatist. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z Though Wright is far too crafty a dramatist to pose them directly, "I Am My Own Wife" confronts us with queasy dilemmas: What would each of us have done in Charlotte's sensible shoes? In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z It’s a long play, modeled on an earlier work by the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón, about a king who keeps the son who has been prophesied to overthrow him locked up in a tower. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Every few years the British theatre rediscovers Rattigan: this excellent production reminds us that we should simply accept him as one of the supreme dramatists of the 20th century. Theatre review 2010-06-09T02:09:00Z Jason Zinoman New Yorkers like to think of themselves as cosmopolitan and worldly, but let’s be honest: We know very little about Japanese theater; most of us would have trouble naming a single living dramatist. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z Four works by master British dramatist Harold Pinter. ACT Theatre unveils 2012 season 2011-08-24T05:14:25Z What is novel is how this company is commissioning dramatists to write plays for its global listener base and at the same time curating them for a narrower market of theatergoers. Now hear this! Playwrights are making theater for the ears. Yes, that’s a thing. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The dramatist had felt compelled to include them, against objections, because he had wanted to give full rein to the character's unpredictability. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z A dramatist of ferociously specific imagination, Mr. Walsh revels in placing bewildered but feisty characters in hermetically sealed environments, creating what might be described as ontological equivalents of the locked room mystery. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Donal O’Kelly’s play is the kind of thing Irish dramatists have supplied in abundance for a generation, at least: 90 minutes crammed with unlikely incidents and flamboyant language. Neil Simon still says laugh! in the play ‘Broadway Bound’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Franco has made an "an ill-considered stage-directing debut" in a play by a novice dramatist — and "inexperience is obvious in both of them." James Franco gets bad reviews for theater directing debut 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Even James Baldwin was stymied as a dramatist by such cultural gatekeeping. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Whitehouse had previously and largely ineffectively railed against such TV shows as Doctor Who, Benny Hill and the works of the great television dramatist Dennis Potter. The Evil Dead, The Living Dead and the dead wrong 2010-10-15T23:22:00Z For Sorkin, who can sound like a frustrated lawyer at times, law is the purest form of storytelling: As a dramatist, he explains, it doesn’t get more ideal. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z There's no doubt she is a gifted dramatist. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “The question is, can I generate empathy for a character we don’t really want to empathize with?” muses dramatist Samuel D. Hunter. ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z Novelists can editorialise in the margins of a narrative; a dramatist is unable to comment from the wings, and must allow actors to entice from the text whatever meanings they fancy. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Jacobs-Jenkins is still maturing as a dramatist, but there's no denying that he's one of the rising stars in the American theater. 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Larger institutions can offer more visibility and financial help to dramatists. Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z So that understatement, right in there is interesting to a dramatist. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Bennett is one of the UK's best-loved dramatists, and 2004's The History Boys was recently . Alan Bennett rejected 'gay label' 2014-05-06T09:17:11Z What he doesn't show is a dramatist who is likeable, or particularly lively. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian It's an old rule that dramatists need to show a measure of sympathy, even to dislikable characters. Before the Party – review 2013-03-29T17:37:17Z Only, Bond suggests, by assuming that the great dramatist was a tormented figure driven to self-destruction. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z For a dramatist, this is a gold mine. How I got inside Mueller's head: the writer of a new Trump-Russia play tells all 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z And yet he was among the most honored of American dramatists. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Some scholars believe that the play originated with Shakespeare and Fletcher, while others credit Fletcher only or attribute it to another Jacobean dramatist. A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z Distinguished dramatists are always more likely to endure gaps than novelists of equivalent status because the production of a play requires the simultaneous commitment of a building, a budget and a director and cast. Who'd have a career as a playwright? 2013-01-11T08:05:01Z While the eclectic company maintains ties to dramatists of Ireland, it is also stages a musical every summer and tends to hire the best young non-Equity singers around. D.C. cabaret series La-Ti-Do relocates to Dupont Circle bar 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Penny’s lapses into doublespeak and other references to “1984” seem intended to imbue “The Totalitarians” with a cautionary chill — or perhaps they’re just meant to show that the dramatist read the novel. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire Like the three short works in “Bash: Latter-Day Plays,” which made his reputation as a dramatist, “The Way We Get By” hinges on a screw-turning reversal or two. Review: ‘The Way We Get By’ After a One-Night Stand 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Archer had claimed that GBS could not be regarded as a supreme dramatist until he had written a tragedy involving "the King of Terrors" – death. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z Whelan also has the natural dramatist's knack of expressing his ideas through purely theatrical means. The Accrington Pals – review 2013-01-22T12:14:09Z The play recently secured the $25,000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an influential award given annually to a work by a female dramatist, and it has been on many critics’ best-of-the-year lists. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s a play that the dramatist believes can help us understand the politics of our own time. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The Public Theater and the Williamstown Theater Festival are among many entities now producing audio plays — some written by award-winning dramatists and performed by Broadway and Hollywood notables — given the current strictures on in-person shows. My Ears Have Been Opened by the Audio Play Explosion 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Not any longer: the rehabilitation of Rattigan as a major dramatist is well advanced, while the spectacular glazing of Mark Bailey's conservatory set is streaked with genuine rain. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-05-08T17:07:43Z “Jefferson’s Garden” is by Timberlake Wertenbaker, one of Britain’s top dramatists, and this U.S. premiere is part of Washington’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Review | ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ blooms with contradictions at Ford’s 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet few foresaw victory for the veteran dramatist on Sunday. Ken Loach stuns at Cannes 2016 with Palme d'Or win for I, Daniel Blake 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z "He saw himself as much a dramatist as a composer and his music was inextricably linked to the stories told on the screen." Bond composer Barry dies aged 77 2011-01-31T13:19:53Z The further I dug, the more gripped I became as a dramatist. ‘Oslo’ and the Drama in Diplomacy 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The choreographer George Balanchine is seldom listed among the 20th century’s great dramatists, and yet many of his ballets take us as close to the essence of drama as any playwright. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z One is that as dramatists compressing a complex history into a cinematic narrative, they must be granted a degree of artistic licence. Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty: 'It's illogical to ignore torture' 2013-01-16T12:19:34Z Seattle dramatist Rachel Atkins finds another way into the subject of how skin color defines identity in “Black Like Us,” her candid, compassionate and engagingly humorous, if somewhat rambling, new play at Annex Theatre. ‘Black Like Us’ explores color, identity in a Seattle family 2014-02-06T22:49:54Z They are both, that is to say, resounding testaments from British dramatists to the particular power of live theater to spin a yarn that ties an audience in knots. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Whatever its economic woes, Ireland continues to yield good new dramatists. Moment ? review 2011-03-01T18:14:44Z But it's also fair to say we've moved a long way since the early 50s, when Agatha Christie was left to carry the flag – rather limply – for female dramatists. British theatre has changed more – and less – than we might think 2012-12-13T15:21:10Z But modern audio dramatists have been turning out intriguing scripted podcasts for several years, and they’re showing no signs of slowing down. Fiction Rising: Podcasts Grow Dramatic 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Conroy is as tough a dramatist as he is a journalist: he doesn’t settle for easy melodramatics, neat resolutions or moral absolutes. Scandal in the Second City: Two Remarkable Shows From Chicago 2012-06-27T12:00:43Z The New York Times gathered some of the nation’s leading political dramatists for a cathartic group therapy session on the CBS Studio Center lot here last month. How to Write TV in the Age of Trump: Showrunners Reveal All 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Wertenbaker has written for radio and film, too, and translated plays by other dramatists, from Sophocles to Racine. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z It’s the noise being artfully coaxed from audiences by the British dramatist Richard Bean and a precision-tooled ensemble of great pretenders at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Such is the scenario teased out in “The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs,” an audacious and maddening play by Canadian dramatist Carole Fréchette. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z They'll be repeating in their minds the pungent, lyrical lines of monologues from plays by the late Seattle dramatist August Wilson. Teen actors in spotlight in August Wilson Monologue Competition 2011-03-04T21:23:15Z Working with robotics engineers forces dramatists to frame their stage directions in highly precise terms. Robot and Human Actors Take Bows Together 2012-07-06T04:57:20Z The tonal flip side of “Veep” was on view this spring at Arena Stage, where dramatist Lawrence Wright’s “Camp David” received its world premiere. In Washington, the drama never ends The Rep is joining with Oregon Shakespeare Festival to commission Seattle dramatist Robert Schenkkan's new two-part series about former U.S. Arts briefs: New plays at the Rep and free outdoor Shakespeare 2011-02-03T23:14:03Z When dramatists go for gritty and bleak, they've got to make us believe it. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z But it's only fair to point out that there was a fightback, and that her values eventually came to be challenged by our more resilient dramatists. Thatcher casts a long shadow 2013-04-08T15:44:23Z “We are all car-crash snoopers when we watch true crime,” concedes TV dramatist Pope, “but there’s much more to it than that.” 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z School reunions, like work and family ones, are fertile ground for dramatists, offering an excuse to gather disparate characters with a catalog of ready-made conflicts. Review: In ‘The Comeuppance,’ a Bigger, Chillier Big Chill 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Akhtar rapidly catapulted himself to the forefront of politically fluent U.S. dramatists, and he excels at pitting varieties of righteousness against one another. Review | ‘Invisible Hand’ a taut political thriller worthy of ‘Homeland’ watchers 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Next week, the National Theatre is reviving Rocket to the Moon, the 1938 play by the quintessential dramatist of the American depression, Clifford Odets. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z So deeply affected was I by this drama that I spent much of the long and lonely drive home from San Diego reflecting on what an extraordinary generation of American dramatists this is. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z “She cultivated several generations of American playwrights,” the dramatist David Henry Hwang, the president of the Young Playwrights board, said of Ms. Goldhirsch in a telephone interview on Monday. Sheri M. Goldhirsch, Who Nurtured Young Playwrights, Dies at 55 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z And, for a dramatist who always masqueraded as a pure entertainer, Coward doesn't half peddle his opinions. This Happy Breed ? review 2011-07-27T17:30:04Z It’s a conjuring of an imagined encounter between his first wife — whose death from cancer at 38 shattered the dramatist — and a daughter she never saw grow up. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z As always in Ibsen – it's one of the things that makes him so dynamic as a dramatist – the power lies in unexpected places. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton It's a great time to be a young dramatist. Y for Young Writers 2012-05-29T12:06:50Z In a subtle hint, she quoted Dennis Potter, the dramatist who so despised News Corp that he named his own cancer "Rupert". Liz Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture: a family affair 2012-08-23T21:55:34Z Nor is “Something Clean” — which opened on Wednesday in a Roundabout Underground production, sensitively directed by Margot Bordelon — a work you might expect from a rising American dramatist in her mid-20s. Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Athol Fugard said that modern dramatists were failing to look at world issues such as corrupt African leaders and injustice. Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z And it's salutary to be reminded that McGrath was one of our finest postwar political dramatists. Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – review 2012-05-28T11:08:05Z Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Professor Mike Cordner, drama professor at York University, described Sir Alan as a "uniquely prolific, radically innovative, and supremely inventive dramatist". Ayckbourn's archive to go online 2011-06-27T09:59:35Z In a series of stage plays that debuted over years at the Public, the dramatist chronicled the mealtime gatherings of these grown Apple siblings in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Review | A play premieres online — and it couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He is a dramatist with a flair for alighting on a good subject, but watching his plays is like seeing something grand through fog. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z The initial season was devoted to Romulus Linney, a prolific and daring but largely unsung dramatist whose play “Heathen Valley” Mr. Houghton had appeared in a few years earlier. James Houghton, Founder of Signature Theater Company, Dies at 57 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 1849 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z But these productions from Potomac, which specializes in the works of Ms. Churchill and Mr. Barker, allow New Yorkers a rare chance to encounter seldom-seen plays from two of Britain’s most inventive dramatists. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Then, in 2008, Kaufman directed his own first film, Synecdoche, New York – about a dramatist who attempts to stage his own experience as a vast, ever-expanding production. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In The New York Times Ben Brantley called it “the first work I have known from this ever-questing dramatist in which the ideas overwhelm the characters.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z In most cases, though, dramatists subsume autobiographical material or research experience into a fictional character of the sort that Alan Bennett once described as "the writer in disguise". Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z He would be the last person, I suspect, to describe himself as a theoretical dramatist, or articulate communicator about the inner life of a character. John le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Such dreamlike images float up from the dialogue of “Our Lady of the Clouds,” a play by Ecuador-based dramatist Arístides Vargas that is enjoying a run at the Capital Fringe Festival. Making a statement by putting a stamp on his art 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Her popularity as a dramatist in decline, Hellman began writing what would become four volumes of legendarily unreliable memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time and Maybe. The scandalous Lillian Hellman 2011-01-22T00:06:27Z A series of acclaimed productions directed by Quintero and produced by him and Mr. Mann was widely credited with reviving Eugene O’Neill’s reputation as America’s pre-eminent dramatist. Theodore Mann, Off Broadway Producer, Dies at 87 2012-02-25T16:55:13Z After we had run through various dramatists and various drama traditions at the Academy, the idea was that we should write something in the genre ourselves, as usual. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Q. Broadway was once the ultimate in success for a young dramatist. Jesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan Discuss Their Plays 2011-09-25T03:01:23Z You’d think the magnitude of exposition required to flesh out 22 lives might trip up the dramatist or bog down the narrative. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Eliot famously to describe Webster as a dramatist who "saw the skull beneath the skin". Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z Other authors, artists and dramatists also portrayed pirates as swashbuckling adventurers, rather than heartless thugs and killers. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z In the same way, when the made-up playwright declares "Screw the whale, but save the gerund", we sense the support of the actual dramatist. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z In the wings for January 2014: “A Great Wilderness” by emerging Idaho dramatist Sam Hunter. Seattle Rep’s 2013-14 season: ‘The Suit,’ Holmes’ hound and ‘Virginia Woolf’ 2013-05-01T21:49:20Z But the biggest connection “was the way she felt about her work as a scientist was how I felt about my own work as a musical dramatist.” Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, Once Ignored, Is Told Anew in Song 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Written by dramatists from countries as dissimilar as Spain, Macedonia and Turkey, the plays in “Eurepica” are equally different in tone and quality. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar Faces and Themes All Over the World 2011-07-21T19:00:11Z This disparity will lead to problems, of course, as dramatists from the ancients onward have taken pains to warn us. Revival of 'The Baker's Wife' wafts freshly baked aromas at Actors Co-op 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z As he converses — and, implicitly, identifies with — the confined creature in the bowl, he seems to belong to the species of charming lunatics who populate the whimsical works of French dramatists like Anouilh and Giraudoux. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z The tale of a troubled schoolteacher, it transferred to London, where Mr. Storey, who had seldom gone to the theater, found himself acclaimed as a dramatist. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Based on European plays written by major male dramatists after the turn of the 20th century, both hinge on the transformation of a central male character whose foremost transgressive act concerns abusing a young woman. Review | Women in classic musicals have to put up with a lot. Exhibits A and B: ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Carousel’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z If Mr. Shinn’s exploration of double nature is less successfully sustained than it was in “Dying City,” “Picked” still offers ample evidence of this dramatist’s singular gift for presenting human murkiness with precisely shaded clarity. | 'Picked': Actors Live Their Double Lives, Both on the Screen and Off 2011-04-21T02:17:30Z As presented in a new and extensively filleted version of Georg Büchner’s play by the English dramatist Howard Brenton, a seminal 19th-century text comes at us staring death straight in the eye. Review: Onstage Risks and Rewards 2010-07-27T11:06:00Z One label he is never given is dramatist. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Jackson’s most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America’s most respected dramatists, be fired. Michael Jackson Musical Creators: ‘We’re Not Judge and Jury’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z While authors often write book reviews, it's less common for dramatists to cast a critical eye over their peers. Why don't playwrights write theatre reviews? | David Cote 2010-03-30T11:38:00Z The softer one-two punch of “The Lover” and “The Collection” doesn’t offer him a dramatist operating at the same optimal fighting weight. Review | Sex games in the afternoon, anyone? Harold Pinter knows how to write the rules. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Since the election, I have been urgently seeking direction from dramatists in the way a cardiac patient might turn to nutrition and meditation after a heart attack. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “But also there is the fact that, as a dramatist, he understands how songs function, and he’s such a brilliant composer.” Tributes pour in for Sondheim, the greatest theater composer-lyricist of our time 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z First he was offstage, an unseen force — the old dramatist’s trick of keeping the Big Bad offstage to build his mystique. C-Span, Gun Control and a Protest Made for Streaming 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z That was never my intention, but purely as a dramatist, half the population I hear are women these days. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z It hails from an era before songwriters typically thought of themselves as dramatists, let alone artists. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z And I think that makes me a much better dramatist. Ming Peiffer: Why Her ‘Usual Girls’ Audiences Got So Personal 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The British playwright, who died in 2008, was a Nobel laureate and is widely considered one of the most important dramatists of the 20th century. The Wooster Group runs into problems with Harold Pinter production 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z You won’t hear a better singer and vocal dramatist all weekend. A$AP Rocky, Japandroids, Willis Earl Beal highlight early acts at Pitchfork 2012-07-14T00:45:00Z James Baldwin, more celebrated as a novelist and civil rights campaigner than as a dramatist, drew on his own life for this 1954 play, set in a pentecostal church in Harlem. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z Obviously best-known as a philosopher and essayist, but also a dramatist of considerable skill. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Made with complete theatrical authority from first to last, it shows many aspects of Mr. Ratmansky: satirist, storyteller, dramatist, poet. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z But this “Government Inspector,” which uses a freewheeling but spiritually faithful adaptation by the American dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher, reminds us of the cathartic value of exaggerating the already grotesque. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Liberation was caused by our dramatists and our screenwriters, washing these things out in our literature and hanging them up so people get used to them.” Every day we’re hustling: Why we love “hustlers” — but not “whores” 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Interestingly, the current West End revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, a play by a dramatist with a reputation for expansiveness, includes in its adverts the line: "Two-and-a-half hours including interval." Endurance performances: Why length matters in the theatre 2012-06-19T07:23:01Z And, I thought, there’s not another dramatist living who could pull off the kind of ambiguity he exercises so exquisitely here. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z In this sense, you could say he was an heir to Tennessee Williams, another dramatist who saw the poetry in withered hopes and ideals tenuously sustained against a world of denial. An Appraisal: Lanford Wilson?s Losers, Beloved by Their Creator 2011-03-25T07:50:16Z In later years, Wagner dismissed Saint-Saëns’ own music as lacking inspiration, while Saint-Saëns attacked Wagner in print as a thinker and dramatist obsessed with “the German preoccupation with going beyond reality.” Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z A review in The Guardian said Graham “seems to have succumbed to the dramatist’s temptation of falling in love with his subject.” Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Fold in the Irish dramatist’s fascination with the spiritual and the occult, as seen in his oft-produced “The Seafarer” and “The Weir,” and you have the full recipe. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre So the consensus remains that Stoppard is essentially a biographical dramatist, whose plays begin in the library, and that The Real Thing is a rare glimpse of the real him. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Then it’s our job, as dramatists, to think about what everybody’s perspective was. How the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase Affected the Kardashian Kids 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z There’s one of the signs of the master dramatist: Balanchine can make you laugh, then wipe the smile off your face, and leave you in a bewildering mix of emotions. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z These plays and others were performed throughout Europe, making Mr. Fo one of the most widely produced dramatists of his time, even if some critics didn’t consider him a “serious” writer. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists. Music rivals, Esperanto and new works on Seattle stages 2013-05-16T19:35:10Z Speakers of Greek and English with a penchant for the Classics will enjoy this short joke about a Greek dramatist who ripped his pants. 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Chekhov begins The Seagull with one of the heavily expository conversations from which modern dramatists are discouraged but which were standard in 19th-century theatre. How far can you push Chekhov? 2012-11-19T15:11:45Z But Ostermeier thinks too many German dramatists are damaged by acclaim while still young; he feels they bring little experience of real life to theatre. Don't mention the phwoar: the future of German theatre 2011-03-13T21:31:00Z Which dramatist said in 2004 that the subject of the Iraq war was “sitting in front of us like a great toad in the road”? Iraq on stage ? quiz 2011-07-21T07:00:22Z And her brooding work on contrabass flute wound up serving as a setup for one booming, climactic pulse from Mr. Sorey, working in this moment as drummer and dramatist both. Review: Roam the Spectrum With Tyshawn Sorey 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z She was “the most important dramatist writing for the Irish theater,” her fellow playwright Lennox Robinson wrote in The Dublin Magazine. Resurrecting Teresa Deevy?s Lost Irish Voice 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z The four characters of this early work by Mr. McDonagh, an Anglo-Irish dramatist with a wit as hard and black as anthracite coal, also appear to have grown a few sizes. Review: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’: Oh Gosh, I’ve Turned Into My Mother 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z You have to remember that when Stephen was growing up, dramatists and film directors believed that their art should be used to illuminate social reality in Britain. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Elizabethan theater was intensely collaborative, with playwrights often punching up old plays or working with other dramatists to cobble together new ones, in the manner of Hollywood script doctors. Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z For Shakespeare and the Classical Greek dramatists, the doings of real and imaginary rulers — affairs of state and of the flesh, both of which figure prominently here — were most often the stuff of tragedy. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z What sort of doors did that open, do you think, for other African-American dramatists and in the theater in general? What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s been a while since the dramatist and screenwriter Tom Stoppard produced a new play. Essential Arts & Culture: Stoppard's new play, L.A.'s Wrigley Field, Dudamel's best-ever L.A. Phil piece 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Explaining that he was repeating himself and needed to do some growing up, he told The New Yorker, “I’ve said enough as a young dramatist.” Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z Mr. Harris handles such moments with the sure sense of a dramatist who knows that quiet understatement strikes home harder than blaring trumpets. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z Away from the unexpectedly high profile for older performers and Elizabethan dramatists, these lists provide further confirmation of some soaring careers. Bafta's TV nominations pay their respects to age 2013-04-09T15:21:45Z Boyle is not concerned: “Historians tell you what happened, dramatists tell you what it felt like,” he says. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He also made his mark as a dramatist. Kora – review 2013-05-28T17:12:04Z The exchanges between the divines and their king are a dramatist's sweetshop; James was a brilliant, savage debater with a scabrous wit that stunned the assembly. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z Yet it is Benjamin’s merciless ability to hunt down the most specific of sounds that makes him such a potent dramatist. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z There is a view that a drama about such a subject should not be made, which ignores the fact that since Sophocles, dramatists have engaged with the darkest areas of human experience. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z Like many dramatists, ancient and modern, he must have hoped that a ripped-from-the-headlines subject would have a particularly powerful effect on his audience. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But he's such a dull dramatist and boring actor that the message isn't delivered. 'Tyler Perry's Good Deeds': Well-intentioned and so-so as ever 2012-02-24T23:15:05Z And I made a comment somewhere that the dramatists came before the historians in Greek history, and when you think about it, maybe the dramatists do know something. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z In late 1880s Australia a would-be dramatist decided that he might gain more attention from theater impresarios if he were a published author. ‘Blockbuster!’: The strange tale of the best-selling crime novel of the 19th century 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Just as Howard Jacobson imagined a dividing line between literary critics and theater directors, there was, for decades, a similarly tense dynamic between serious dramatists and successful television writers. A scholar gives theater directors their due when it comes to Shakespeare 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But as is true of most great dramatists, his syntax, locutions, rhythms and silences make up a sui generis grammar. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z In Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates banishes poets, including dramatists, from the perfectly just city. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It is true that the terrorist characters spout hateful slogans—“America is one big Jew,” one says—but a dramatist cannot address hatred without giving hatred a voice onstage. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Black and Asian dramatists also now feature more strongly in the list of 100 plays. British theatre has changed more – and less – than we might think 2012-12-13T15:21:10Z And it seems fitting that it should befall a work by Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins, who is both one of the most exciting young dramatists working today and one of the hardest to categorize. Review: ‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Still, with Nina Raine's medical play, directed by the dramatist, he has something that can be judged by the high standards set by the Royal Court. Twelfth Night; Tiger Country; The Painter ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:05Z Nonetheless some robotics researchers and experimental dramatists are finding fertile ground in working with a new generation of increasingly sophisticated robot actors. Robot and Human Actors Take Bows Together 2012-07-06T04:57:20Z This magnifying focus summons thoughts of another great American dramatist, Arthur Miller, and his belief in the possibilities of the common man as a tragic hero. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This is not journalism — I’m being a dramatist with stuff — but I’m trying to engage in an argument, which is a little different than a lot of TV, I think. “You tell me that the riots are a good thing? F*ck you. Come to Baltimore and say that”: David Simon on police brutality, the legacy of “The Wire” and the future of American cities 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The play revived O’Neill’s flagging reputation and cemented him as a great dramatist. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z In fact, the growth of diversity both in the audience and in the places it sharpens its opinions has brought only benefit to any dramatist whose first love is experiment and innovation. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z She was vocal about this in the 90s, when she felt she was muscled out of the Royal Court by a new crop of bullish male dramatists. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z And he's well aware of the weighty expectations placed on him — including the claim that McCraney is the theatrical heir apparent to the late, revered Seattle dramatist August Wilson, one of his mentors. Preview: Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney makes NW debut at Seattle Rep 2011-01-27T00:44:04Z Booted into touch a decade ago, it reminds us of just how good a dramatist Simon Gray was. Review 2010-06-01T23:29:00Z Kirkwood, author of the play “Chimerica” and one of the cleverest in this new generation of British dramatists, never allows the extraordinary situation of the characters to distract from their stubborn individuality. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The degree to which the events correspond to racial conflicts occurring in this country now will deepen your appreciation of this dramatist’s visionary art. Perspective | These works by Richard Nelson and Lorraine Hansberry are some of the best plays online now 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “Horizon” was the first play by O’Neill I ever read, at 9 or 10, and as a black-and-white introduction to a dramatist’s worldview it’s not inappropriate reading for preadolescents. Theater Review: O?Neill?s ?Beyond the Horizon? at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-02-27T03:01:00Z Long fabled as a director, script doctor and dramatist, Ms. May first became famous as a master of improvisational comedy, instantly inventing fully detailed, piquantly neurotic characters who always leaned slightly off-kilter. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That steady release shows a dramatist working with great control – but The Big Fellah is also crammed with gags. Max Stafford-Clark: by hook or by crook 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z And, Mortimer being primarily a dramatist, his dialogue is always good. Forever Rumpole by John Mortimer – review 2013-02-05T07:00:06Z I wouldn’t bet on the triumph of either one, but this dramatist’s standoffs are usually livelier than other writers’ conclusive victories and defeats. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z Sheri M. Goldhirsch, the artistic director of Young Playwrights Inc., an organization that produces the work of dramatists who are no more than 18, died on Sept. 22 in Manhattan. Sheri M. Goldhirsch, Who Nurtured Young Playwrights, Dies at 55 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But what I'm also interested in is how, because we can accept who the good guys were, then as a dramatist, that opens the window to look at the moral ambiguity. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z But when performances are as on target as these, a small space allows us to enter more completely into a dramatist’s reality, and to feel as if we’re truly part of the play. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Up Close, Feeling Very Personal 2012-05-31T16:22:36Z “The writers get the great joy of tagging along with the world’s best poetic dramatist,” Ms. Douthit said. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Plans Shakespeare 'Translation' Project 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Few, if any dramatists, made better use of the resonance of the unspoken than Beckett. Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I reckon I'll have to go on travelling to see British dramatists, living or dead, given the seasonal treatment. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z As any experienced fell walker – or dramatist – will tell you, it's all about thinking ahead. The Gift and the Glory | Theatre review 2010-04-04T21:30:00Z Mr. Kelly, a dramatist with a dark sensibility, who put the mischief into “Matilda the Musical,” was always likely to depart from Disney’s version. ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Montgomery believes the output of emerging local dramatists is growing more sophisticated. Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z When the world economy collapsed in 2008, London’s National Theatre commissioned longtime issues dramatist David Hare to write. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Mozart was, in effect, a dramatist in music, endowed with a finesse and a power of psychological insight akin to that of the greatest novelists. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z And finally, there's the work of such theatrical poets as Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane; possibly two of the most influential dramatists of the last half-century. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z And I suspect that this year, which marks the 100th anniversary of Terence Rattingan's birth, will see an upward evaluation of this once-hated dramatist's reputation. The best theatre for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:08Z Stage Stage Directions by Michael Frayn Frayn's erudition is always displayed to entertaining advantage, writes Victoria Segal Lost in translation: why have we declared war on foreign dramatists? Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z No, it’s not Ibsen, a dramatist rarely noted for zingy one-liners. Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute in ‘Just for Us’ 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z He made the point that authenticity is essential if a dramatist is to create an accurate picture of our lives, past and present. Painting the pit men: writers must dig for the real Chilean miners 2010-10-14T15:40:00Z PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards: Three awards honoring a master American dramatist, an American playwright in midcareer and an emerging American playwright. PEN announces 2014 literary award winners 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z So why this wave of new work by local dramatists? Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z The names of 66 authors were put forward for the prize that year, with the shortlist consisting of Steinbeck, Graves, Durrell, French dramatist Jean Anouilh and Danish author Karen Blixen. Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize 2013-01-03T15:43:46Z Like any real dramatist, Rattigan is able to comprehend contradictory points of view. Theatre review 2010-06-09T02:09:00Z Marie Antoinette, that dramatist, loved her perfumed powders, which were made from crushed iris rhizomes and used to color and scent her elaborate bouffants. | The Poetry of Powder 2014-04-03T15:09:37Z Harold Bloom has called Williams "the most literary of our major dramatists," a direct descendant of Hart Crane in both poetic intensity and self-destructive fervor. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But dramatists are drawn to it, in part because its elements are recognizable from his later work: the grand old estate, the money woes, the crowd of characters living restless, listless lives. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The psychic disruption in the life of a young woman who seems to have it all is the focus of this new play at Studio Theatre by up-and-coming British dramatist Clare Lizzimore. Challenging the gender status quo in American theater 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian In Monday's Guardian, political playwright Athol Fugard voiced a concern that dramatists are "failing to confront issues of injustice, writing instead for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts". Why can't playwrights feel free to be political? 2010-09-02T15:32:00Z What “The Faith Machine” never quite delivers is the where-are-we-now knockout punch that one might expect from a smart dramatist who anatomized shifting social and sexual mores in his terrific debut play, “The Pride.” Theater Review: Boys' Night Out, Girls' Night Out, and 'The Faith Machine' 2011-09-06T12:00:05Z An exuberant celebration of binational playmaking, the project enlists 20 dramatists — 10 Russian, 10 American — and presents versions of their playlets in both languages. Review | Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The square, which we barely leave, is plainly a stage, but it must be said that Mr. Savona’s talents as a dramatist are variable. Movie Review: ‘Tahrir: Liberation Square,’ Chronicles 2011 Cairo Protests 2012-06-10T22:38:23Z Handel was for Beethoven the greatest of all composers, and music’s finest dramatist. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The Titanic fascinates filmmakers because it has everything a dramatist could ever want: heroism, sacrifice, decency and grace under pressure. The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But, the production, he writes, fails at the level of story: “As dramatists, Martin and Brickell fall readily into clichés.” Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z How quickly can an American dramatist get inside the fences of a humanitarian disaster to expose audiences to its anguishing consequences? Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z I can’t think of another American dramatist since Tennessee Williams who writes with the generous lyricism of Wilson. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Seductive, ruthless and ultimitely tragic - the legend of Cleopatra has inspired numerous artists, dramatists and film-makers down the ages, from Shakespeare to Hollywood. Cleopatra reborn 2011-02-24T10:41:18Z Steve Martin, Jose Ferrer and, naturally, Gerard Depardieu who did, actually, need a false nose to play the witty French dramatist. Clip joint: fake noses 2010-12-01T13:54:00Z “Fences” would help establish Wilson as the nation’s most successful black Broadway dramatist by far. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Spy vs. spy and the death of Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Now having seen “Spring Storm,” I can’t imagine anyone interested in the singular voice of the American theater’s most enduringly lyrical dramatist missing the opportunity. Review: The Young and Ever Restless Tennessee Williams 2010-04-20T12:41:00Z While Sorkin draws some of his dialogue from court transcripts, he also exercises the historical dramatist’s prerogative to embellish, streamline and invent. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z His youthful interest in theater and plays led him to study playwriting at New York University, University of Iowa and then The Juilliard School, where famed dramatist Marsha Norman was a mentor. ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z "And complicated -- complicated in a way that is catnip to a dramatist." ArtsBeat: Bette Midler to Play Superagent Sue Mengers on Broadway 2013-01-07T19:30:09Z Is it poor form to invoke a British dramatist when discussing a play that’s in no small part about the ravages of British colonialism? ‘The Vagrant Trilogy’ Review: Palestinians in Exile, Yearning for Home 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z A new play by a dramatist who lives and works here, on a topic of homegrown resonance, is a venture worth going out of one’s way to encourage. Alexander Hamilton had his life turned into a musical. Now, John Quincy Adams gets his turn, in a new play. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z He seems fascinated by violence, even for a dramatist. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z For centuries, the archetypal characters of commedia dell’arte have been mined so thoroughly by composers, dancers and dramatists that you would think that there is nothing fresh to uncover. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z A chinoiserie table purchased at the venerable San Francisco shop Gump’s in the ’20s by Goldwyn’s maternal grandfather, the Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist Sidney Howard, sits atop the den’s pale Khotan rug. A Glamorous Home in the Hollywood Hills 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z “The fact that critics often say Pac is contradictory — great material for a dramatist,” Mr. Kreidler said of the process that saw him dissecting lyrics to forge a narrative. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Rudkin states that despite believing himself to be a political being,"I was never classed as a 'political' dramatist, rather as some wild marginal creature, unpolitical." Noises off: Why the audience would rather not get in on the act 2010-10-21T14:48:00Z Lonergan plumbs fearsome depths, but the world created by Wilson, one of the greatest of 20th century American dramatists, is far more expansive. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Although the symptoms appear debilitating, the play is neither gloomy nor pitying, but rather awe-struck, as though the dramatists were marveling at the complexity of the human brain and nervous system. Review | Spooky Action Theater’s ‘The Man Who’ marvels at the complexities of the brain 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It seemed another indication of an erosion in our ability to appreciate the poetry of the most ingenious dramatist of the English-speaking world. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z As a dramatist, your requirement is to do that with as much urgency as possible so the viewer feels compelled to think about the issues. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z It was film-makers, dramatists and satirists, however, who were leading the race towards modernity. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z Their banter, razzing, conflicts and lamentations constitute the heart of Wilson’s play and the soul of his life’s work as a dramatist. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In both cases, the delay resulted not from indecision or wilfulness on the part of the dramatist, but because the plays were born out of improvisations with the cast. Do play titles matter? 2013-04-01T11:17:03Z Roeg also here deserves to be noted for working with the great dramatist Edward Bond, and seeing how Bond’s rarely employed brilliance could supercharge the movies. Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z American theater lost one of its greatest dramatists with the death of Edward Albee, the triple Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, to this dramatist, the most vital dialogue is not the one he composes, but the one he can start. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps revealingly, dramatists who used to be actors – Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn – tend to leave much more leeway for their casts. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z Generally, however, you have to travel abroad for in-depth examinations of British dramatists. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z Rebecca Gilman is an American dramatist who writes about hot topics with unsensational honesty. Blue Surge ? review 2011-08-08T17:40:01Z However much Rattigan may have attacked the English vice of emotional restraint, no dramatist made better use of its sub‑textual possibilities. The Deep Blue Sea ? review 2011-07-26T17:31:57Z And, when I once rashly suggested that Shaw was second only to Shakespeare as an English language dramatist, I unleashed a debate in the correspondence columns that went on for weeks. Theatre critics still pack a punch 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z It was translated by the spy and dramatist Christopher Marlowe into sixteenth-century English. Ovid's impotence shows why we can't let Pompeii fall 2010-12-13T13:35:00Z She was raised in suburban west London, the daughter of dramatists, and famously requested an agent before she turned four. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Or might the ascendancy of television as a narrative medium be making today’s dramatists a bit fidgety? | 'Little Black Dress': She Doesn?t Want to Be in Kansas Anymore 2011-05-10T22:30:30Z I hope you’re enjoying that fish, the great dramatist seems to be saying. Bites: Restaurant Review: Sea Change in Minneapolis 2010-04-03T03:55:00Z What worked for Elizabethan dramatists can't be expected to cut it today. I spit on your grave, but that's about it 2011-01-24T13:50:06Z But, he added, “While historians must stick to the facts, dramatists need to tell a good story in good time. It also helps if they can explore the human condition in the process.” Who cares if ‘Selma,’ ‘Imitation Game’ bend truth? Not Oscar 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z He is one of our few major dramatists who dares to make plays from the kinds of anecdotes about which we say at cocktail parties: “If this were a play, you’d never believe it.” Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Putting a sardonic spin on a modern classic of misanthropy, the movie “Hyenas” transposes a dark comedy by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt to rural Senegal. A Dark Swiss Comedy, Transported to Rural Senegal 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z You don't expect to find a Rattigan "world premiere" in the dramatist's centenary year. Less Than Kind 2011-01-24T18:09:40Z The bleak, mythic vistas of the dramatist Sam Shepard and the novelist Cormac McCarthy come to mind, as well as films by Peckinpah and Ford. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z And, more than any other living dramatist, he has demolished the myth that American drama is exclusively concerned with personal crises. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z "So someone who manages to be two people at once is hugely appealing for a dramatist." Spies coming in from the cold for TV shows 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Womenby Carol Dyhouse History delivers a strong finale, too, for the lucky dramatist. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z I suspect there is also a lingering suspicion of a young British dramatist's right to tackle a profoundly American subject. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z But you’re more aware of the jokes as jokes, and also of the dramatist’s calculations behind the twists of plot. Review: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’: Oh Gosh, I’ve Turned Into My Mother 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z He was also, in several works, ballet’s greatest dramatist — there is no contradiction here, for drama pervades his non-narrative work. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Both he and Peralto attended the ceremony and flew back to Spain ecstatic about collaborating again on “The Last Quixote,” a fictionalized riff on the author’s feud with fellow dramatist Lope de Vega. Around the world in several plays: Embassies get bitten by the theater bug 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The dramatist’s intent is achieved here for an intensifying of the modern ethical stakes — it’s an excellent version for school groups — and for broadening the comedy, too. Shylock goes to Washington in ‘District Merchants’ at Folger 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It's full of revelations, surprises, agonising suspense, moments of terrible darkness and challenges to characters' deepest ideas of themselves – the sort of fundamental turning points that audiences have always demanded of dramatists. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z With a libretto by Paul Claudel, the French poet and dramatist, the story is told from Joan’s viewpoint in the afterlife through a series of flashbacks. ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Keegan’s repertoire varies wildly, but each season includes work by at least one or two Irish dramatists. Keegan Theatre finds Irish audiences enthusiastic about ‘A Few Good Men’ “Someone who lived a very severe and closeted life at the periphery of his own desire,” Davis says of Inge, the Kansas dramatist who killed himself at are 60. Body of work: Transgender director returns to Olney Theatre Center with ‘Evita’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Fosse is said to be the most performed of living European dramatists and was awarded the French Order of Merit in 2007. Theater Review: ‘I Am the Wind,’ by Jon Fosse, Features Men Alone at Sea 2014-01-17T02:00:01Z Ms Hynes won the award for the Druid Theatre production of DruidO'Casey - a trilogy of stories written by Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey. Belfast's Lyric Theatre dominates UK drama awards 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays. Norwegian writer Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in literature 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z That includes actors, dramatists, comedians, musicians and pundits who work for the BBC. Gary Lineker: New rules for BBC flagship presenters after social media row 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The appointment, which is effective immediately, places one of the most accomplished dramatists of his generation at the helm of the city’s most prominent Westside theater. Playwright and 'Moonlight' screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney to lead Geffen Playhouse 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z In appointing a Black queer dramatist, the Geffen Playhouse has acknowledged that the pursuit of artistic excellence depends on the widest possible talent pool. What drew Tarell Alvin McCraney to lead Geffen Playhouse? 'It felt selfish to sit on the sidelines' 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z George C. Wolfe can pinpoint the exact moment that sparked his career as a director and dramatist. Carrie Mae Weems and George C. Wolfe on Defiance and Claiming Space 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The English dramatist’s original style changed the face of 20th century theater. Review: Necessary verbal ruthlessness is in short supply in this rare Harold Pinter revival 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is also someone who dreamed of being a dramatist. Biographer warns Trump will turn criminal trial into a circus: "He is imagining himself as Superman" 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z No dramatist survives the journey from obscurity to fame unscathed, but Wilson’s path was especially grueling. Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time. But would he have made it today? 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s also because he is a trailblazing dramatist in his prime. What drew Tarell Alvin McCraney to lead Geffen Playhouse? 'It felt selfish to sit on the sidelines' 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Goldman said he thought of himself as a dramatist who happened to write screenplays. Bo Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, dies at 90 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Most scripts she had been sent were poor, she said, and contemporary dramatists were not writing good roles for women. Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z These words of a brilliant dramatist were not just moving to hear spoken by a 21st century director and choreographer committed to making a difference. Commentary: An unscripted Tony Awards 2023 found meaning and eloquence on a historic night 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Hartigan’s biography is at its best in chronicling the artistic process that reshaped not only Wilson as a dramatist but also the producing structures of the American theater. Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time. But would he have made it today? 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The philosophical schools of Plato and Aristotle, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the plays of Athenian dramatists, and the art of Greek sculptors, architects, and painters have inspired European thinkers and artists for centuries. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The book is especially successful at bringing the reader into the world that Shepard inhabited as he developed into one of the greatest American dramatists of the late 20th century. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s power as a dramatist is at its zenith when actors find their characters in the rhythm and meaning of their lines. Review: Words aren’t the only magic in this interactive production of Shakespeare's 'Tempest' 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z She could be relied upon to be unfailingly supportive and rigorously demanding of any writer she worked with, whether journeyman reporter or laurel-wreathed dramatist. Remembering a Revered, No-Nonsense Editor of Culture 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z There’s a scattershot quality to the gibes and insufficient development of its central idea, that of a woman aspiring to the life and renown of a dramatist. Review | On two D.C. stages, plays navel-gaze about — what else? — the stage 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “Shakespeare, by the time he was doing ‘The Tempest,’ was a compete dramatist, and incorporating — at a higher level than ever before — comedy, drama and spectacle,” Posner says. At Round House Theatre, a literally magical ‘Tempest’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z |
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