In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles’ fellow playwright, Euripides. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her character is the conscience of the drama, the voice of the playwright. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

None of this is in the playwright’s script; Courtney is writing a backstory based on what she imagines and what she knows of real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wanted a more creative career instead, and he set out to develop the skills to become a playwright. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And there was Uncle Bao, a playwright, who smoked cigars and let me sit on his lap. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tension and anger—the violent emotions suggested by the playwright’s words—are played right on the knife’s edge. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I didn’t see any black or Latino playwrights on our syllabus at that summer camp. And only one woman,” she tells us. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It had intricate footnotes and detailed explanations as to the playwright’s meaning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could be a playwright and a director. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In 1996, a sometime actress and playwright by the name of Rebecca Wells published a book entitled Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welles appeared two days later in Houseman's office, eager to formally audition for the part in front of the playwright, Archibald MacLeish. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t really appreciate the explicit direction, even from the playwright, but the notation does tell him something. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She also called out the August Wilson Acting Ensemble, which was named after a prominent social justice playwright, who is black, I might add.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And how close she had come to wasting that life as a playwright! Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I like Henrik Ibsen’s. He was a playwright.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The playwright Tony Kushner has described the attraction of gay men to the theater, and their influence on it, in one word: fabulousness. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“A wheelwright or a shipwright makes more money than a playwright, ” Anne told William. pneumonia. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Still, he hadn’t earned enough money as a playwright to support his family. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“An excellent device, worthy of a playwright” His praise was like honey to a bee, and I sucked it up. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For about a decade before, he'd been more or less exclusively working with the great playwright Harold Pinter. Douglas Hodge gets nosy in 'Cyrano' on Broadway 2012-10-10T12:37:08Z

Scripts should be no longer than 45 minutes, but to apply, playwrights need only include a title, a rationale, a character list, a 200-word summary and a sample scene. For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul

It’s a lengthy power struggle between a playwright and a woman who knows she can be his star. Emmanuelle Seigner: “In movies, most women are victims or prostitutes” 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Moment at the Bush is the UK premiere of a new play by Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan about a family teatime shattered by the arrival of unexpected news. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-25T17:16:52Z

The playwright said it traced his working methods from the days when he would use handwritten notes to dictate a script to his wife Heather. Ayckbourn's archive to go online 2011-06-27T09:59:35Z

In the new film, "Guest Artist," Daniels plays the title character, Joseph Harris, a gay, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who has parlayed his success into becoming a successful drunk. Jeff Daniels on theater vs. film and the man who never forgave him for making "Dumb & Dumber" 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

There was a fertile period in New York — starting in the late 1950s — when adventurous playwrights regularly deployed the theatrical equivalent of such mirrors. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

And at least writing brought her a windfall: the £30,000 Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z

In the hands of playwright Douglas Carter Beane, a quite fine one actually. Review: Bway's 'Cinderella' filled with freshness 2013-03-04T02:33:11Z

The playwrights aren’t slouches either: Halley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow,” adapted from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” is one of several world premieres planned at Williamstown. 15 Summer Theater Festivals (and More) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The playwright is in good hands, and the audience in his. In 'Pocatello,' Americans struggle to smile through the heartbreak 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Leigh, who lives in Sydney with her husband, a lawyer and playwright, said she loved the festival for the international focus it brought to smaller films. Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z

But its plan to present the North American premiere of a work by the Syrian playwright Mohammad al-Attar risks being stopped at the United States border if President Trump’s travel ban is upheld. Travel Ban Threatens a Lincoln Center Festival Play 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bevan was, after all, a playwright as well as an artist. Donald Bevan, 93, Sardi’s Artist and ‘Stalag 17’ Writer, Dies 2013-07-01T02:44:09Z

The adaptation will be written by playwright Sarah Gubbins, Deadline reports. Coming from the creator of Transparent: I Love Dick, the TV version of cult novel 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The performers in the playwright and director William Burke’s “Comfort Dogs: Live From the Pink House” are unusually brazen. Review: ‘Comfort Dogs’ Explores the Solace of Communing With Canines 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The outstanding emerging company prize went to the Welders, the three-year old playwrights’ cooperative that is now handing the operation to its second round of writers. ‘Salome,’ ‘Avenue Q,’ ‘Yerma’ are major Hayes Award winners 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The presence of Ibsen — and his wife and his rival playwright, August Strindberg — are the weak spots of this production. A Victorian murderer, robots and a waiting room for heaven 2011-03-01T01:49:38Z

The 50th anniversary production, which stars playwright and actor Tracy Letts, recently extended its run by a month, following a string of rave reviews. 'Broadway is junk' 2013-01-28T12:52:30Z

While it has some commendable goals — drawing many writers of note, including many playwrights of color, into a potentially profound communication with Shakespeare’s work — the notion that Shakespeare needed to be translated bothered me. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

His restless mind has led him into becoming a stand-up giant, a movie star, a screenwriter, a producer, a novelist, a songwriter, a banjoist, an art curator — and, increasingly these days, a playwright. What follows 'Bright Star'? For Steve Martin, it's 'Meteor Shower' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

There were other influences that made him a playwright, not a drug dealer. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

In the smaller Leo K. Theatre, two more works by Northwest playwrights are to be unveiled over the 2013-14 season. Seattle Rep’s 2013-14 season: ‘The Suit,’ Holmes’ hound and ‘Virginia Woolf’ 2013-05-01T21:49:20Z

The long list of playwrights and composers looking to Noh for inspiration includes Samuel Beckett, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht and Benjamin Britten. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

What do you hope for when you see a new work, or work by a new playwright? ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions 2012-12-05T20:15:08Z

The festival, part of the cultural warmup to next summer's 2012 London Olympic Games, reflects the ability of Britain's most famous playwright to reach audiences in myriad languages and cultures. The Bard goes global with 37 plays in 37 languages 2011-09-26T23:02:08Z

The play's most curious casting, however, is of a performer labelled "not as funny as white comedians" by one J Davidson: that is, the playwright's erstwhile support act and standup circuit veteran Matt Blaize. Old school champion Jim Davidson aims to turn standup on its head 2010-09-16T16:06:00Z

Some fear that the kickoff party is geared more toward big theater donors than to playwrights.. Putting women in the spotlight: New festival showcases female playwrights at 45 D.C.-area theaters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

For the playwright Christopher Durang, the view beyond the Hudson is looking very attractive these days. Christopher Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Heads to Regional Theaters 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

American premieres include “Sága,” by Dez Mona and Baroque Orchestration X, a song cycle on the subject of homecoming; and “The Last Hotel,” the first opera by the playwright Enda Walsh. Theater Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The company will produce Tony Award winning playwright David Auburn's new play, "The Columnist," on Broadway in January. David Hyde Pierce to return to New York stage 2011-05-09T17:03:12Z

While watching “Pass Over” at the August Wilson Theater, I realized the main conversation Nwandu was having was not with Beckett but with another formidable playwright: herself. Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Prolific Los Angeles playwright Tom Jacobson marvelously assembles such a family in the course of his new play “Captain of the Bible Quiz Team,” presented by Rogue Machine in churches in West L.A., From the pulpit: The unfolding story of the 'Captain of the Bible Quiz Team' 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

For a young playwright in New York, it’s one thing to draw buzz from critics and theater fans. A Play ‘Meant to Trouble’ From a Writer Raised in Conservatism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

“As a playwright, I found it quite difficult to write for an inanimate object,” Ms. Benawra said. In ‘Talking Statues,’ Sing London Gives Artwork a Voice 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

That sadness, though, has not diminished the work’s popularity with playwrights, and now Atlantic for Kids, part of the Atlantic Theater Company, is presenting an imaginative musical adaptation. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Mostly he wanted to entice well-known playwrights and novelists to write screenplays, or gain the rights of those works whose authors were no longer around to cajole. Elliott Kastner obituary 2010-07-29T17:26:00Z

The award is given annually to outstanding women playwrights. ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z

Hunter - one of several prolific British playwrights of the... Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Seldes earned five Tony nominations, winning for her supporting role in "A Delicate Balance" by the playwright Edward Albee, with whom she had a long association. Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Cherry Lane Theatre at 38 Commerce St. proudly boasts of showcasing early works by playwrights like Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter. It’s still cool to hang out in Greenwich Village 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Photo: PR Liverpool playwright Chloe Moss is very much a writer to treasure, chronicling quiet, often unsung ordinary lives with both grace and sparky dialogue. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

But now, in his 30s — and with his debut as a playwright coming later this year — he is trying to be the main character in his own life. An Actor Who Cedes the Spotlight While Quietly Commanding It 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Advertisement “I see myself as building on Jim’s legacy,” he said over tea in a Chinese restaurant in Midtown, after a workshop reading with a young playwright. The Flea’s New Artistic Director Is Dreaming Big 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Van Hove, who won a Tony Award in June for the Broadway incarnation of this utterly enthralling production, aids the playwright’s cause ingeniously by stripping the piece of its naturalistic trappings. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Web site, the playwrights are charged not to cut, not to edit, not to add personal politics, not to change the setting or time period or references. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

And there are times, particularly when you are reviewing the performing arts, when you can't help wounding the ego and professional pride of a playwright, director or actor. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

And on May 28 and 29, “Airswimming” by the British playwright Charlotte Jones, tells the real-life story of two women who spend 50 years in an insane asylum. In Istanbul, Theater in Many Tongues 2010-05-03T10:00:00Z

It also, Mr. Rasmussen said, may feed one of the more contentious disputes in Shakespeare studies: whether the playwright was a secret Catholic. Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

In 1597 the playwright returned from London a rich and famous man and bought New Place, the second best house in his home town. Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden 2010-04-05T16:33:00Z

The text is a mammoth, unwieldy beast, as playwrights’ juvenilia often is. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

And Ms. Drury gloriously confirms her status as a playwright for whom the long view is disturbingly, divertingly and endlessly kaleidoscopic. Review: ‘Marys Seacole’ Puts Biodrama Through a Kaleidoscope 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

The playwright Annie Baker, in an email message, called her “intimidatingly cool.” Lois Smith’s Year of Working Constantly 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

New York City playwright David Goldfarb, whose credits include the book of the 2006 musical satire "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me," clearly knows that surreal territory, too. 'Cradle and All': Baby rocks couple's world 2012-02-08T00:36:04Z

Coming at hip-hop from a far different background was Kate Tempest, an English poet, playwright and rapper who vehemently pondered moral dilemmas in a consumerist era. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

At 59, Ritchie lacks Beckett’s craggy, deeply lined complexion, but the kinship with the playwright is clear. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Posh” invites you to make of that connection what you will, remarks like “Remember, this isn’t a democracy,” by the Riot Club’s president, there to tip the playwright’s hand. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

In “The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage,” the poet and playwright Dan O’Brien dramatizes a mystery of his past. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

I was the first playwright he invited in to discuss his ideas. 'Zoot Suit' writer Luis Valdez: How Gordon Davidson changed my life, and American theater, forever 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Suzan-Lori Parks is making the most of her role as a playwright in residence at the Signature Theater. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Larson’s precursor to “Rent,” is a musical about the playwright’s attempts to get his dystopian rock musical, “Superbia,” produced. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Both are on view, aptly enough, alas, in “Escuela,” a dull, didactic drama written and directed by the noted Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón. Review: From Chile, ‘Escuela,’ a Drama About Education 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The New York Times spoke to several prominent playwrights about their experiences with after-show discussions and their reactions to Mr. Mamet’s ban. David Mamet Doesn’t Want to Hear From You. Do Other Playwrights? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

“At first I thought, Oh, well, Ben is not the one I thought I was waiting for,” said Mr. Foster, 36, a playwright and theater director in Minneapolis. Field Notes: The Stars Realign. Do We? 2011-02-11T00:37:39Z

His wife, the playwright Karen Malpede, said the cause was the cumulative effects of several advanced illnesses. George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

But I was not getting a lot of creative satisfaction doing that and I taught myself how to be a playwright. Seth Greenland navigates writing maze of novels, radio, stage and TV 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Which is why, it seems, the playwright warns you upfront, in the program, that Parts 1, 2 and 3 “are not sequential. They are different possible versions of Adham’s life.” Review | ‘The Vagrant Trilogy’ is a night of revelation, a glimpse of the Middle East we rarely see 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

In addition to the Burgtheater premiere, the playwright is here to teach an acting class. Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Sixty-Six Books will see 66 novelists, playwrights, poets and authors respond to each of the 66 books in the historic bible to mark its 400th anniversary. Abbey to host Bush's bible show 2011-07-28T14:40:14Z

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the novelist and playwright who founded the Guild of Literature and Art with Dickens, is remembered now only as a figure of fun. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z

More likely, it’s the playwright’s comment on characters who just let ships pass in the night. Conor McPherson’s ‘Port Authority’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

He later took his stage name from the playwright Thornton Wilder. Gene Wilder, actor known for nimble comic portrayals of neurotics, dies at 83 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

It takes a brave playwright to saddle her work with the less than enticing title “Ugly Lies the Bone.” Review: ‘Ugly Lies the Bone,’ With Mamie Gummer as a Combat Veteran 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Her big, vulnerable eyes, painted smile and full blond hair perfectly convey everything there is to love about the playwright and his addictive fixation on deceiving appearances. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Boys and Girls” is basically four monologues; it’ll be interesting to see these performers and this playwright work with more stage interaction. ‘Boys and Girls’ at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z

D’Aguiar is a poet, novelist and playwright who was born in London to Guyanese parents. Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

No doubt the company asked to take a closer look at the script before giving this rising star playwright the green light. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

He and Suárez-Cohen collaborated by e-mail and WhatsApp, with Vales making a few trips to Buenos Aires and the playwright coming to Washington for a workshop a few months ago. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Revealing in another way, and none too generous, are her portraits of feminist author Betty Friedan, playwright Lillian Hellman, and humorist Dorothy Parker — role models for Ephron, who became disillusioned after close encounters with them. ‘The MOST of Nora Ephron:’ everything for the Ephron fan 2013-12-18T23:03:05Z

So to recap, we have a playwright creating a stage version of her husband, who undermines her work with words she’s given him. Review: Playwriting and Bug-Hunting Wed in ‘The Catastrophist’ 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

It runs all year round with workshops, lectures and meetings with playwrights. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

“Dana H.,” which required O’Connell to mouth along to prerecorded interviews with the playwright’s mother, demanding complete submission to the text and its rhythms, is more challenging than most Broadway fare. She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The knowing theatergoer attends this prolific playwright’s work in a state of anxious anticipation, fearing and hoping to be rattled by some fresh violation of the traditionally taboo. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

They present more regularly than mainstream playwrights, gradually develop loyal followings and, since they are working with low budgets, they are allowed to fail and to refine their aesthetic. Critic?s Notebook: Festivals: Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces, American Realness 2012-01-03T23:36:36Z

“Their eyes told me, ‘We needed that,’ ” said Mr. Wilson, 44, an actor and playwright with Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island. Ferguson Events Reverberate at One-Minute Play Festival 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

“We need our playwrights to be thinking big, and enlarging their visions of what they’re doing.” Free Tickets for Playwrights Who Can’t Afford the Theater 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Feldman immediately immersed himself in all aspects of the small theater company, getting to know the playwrights and artists and learning all he could about play development. Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

As the playwright Paul Rudnick scans the news, he too has been keeping an eye out for décor tips and “also hints of newscasters’ families, pets and sex dungeons,” he wrote in an email. You Show Me Your Décor, I’ll Show You Mine 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The playwright is a former human rights and children’s rights lawyer. Jodie Comer to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Prima Facie’ Next Spring 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The composer and playwright is best known as the creator of “Rent,” a musical loosely based on Puccini’s 1896 opera, “La Bohème.” ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

What annoyed me then — which was mostly inherent in the show’s book, written by the generally terrific playwright Enda Walsh — hasn’t been erased from “Once.” Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

Adapted by playwright Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, “Curious Incident” is an empathetic character study of an autistic teen who sees the world differently than most. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a musical, written and directed by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, conceived in sorrow but blessed with the joy of splendid voices harmonizing through 21 Dylan numbers, written between 1963 and 1997. Review | Listen up, Bob Dylan fans: You’ll want to journey to Broadway’s ‘North Country’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“He’s a journalist, and I’m a playwright by trade, so I think he tends to wanting to make larger statements about the city than I do, and I tend to resist that a little.” Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

The veteran improvisers Hunter Nelson and Terry Withers take on the dramatic stylings of David Mamet in this show, which they cheekily claim is a workshop of that playwright’s latest, ever-evolving script. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Over the last 15 years, Canadian playwright Brad Fraser has practically been playwright-in-residence at Manchester's Royal Exchange, which has produced a number of his works including the recent True Love Lies. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z

Or the poet/actor/playwright/jack of all literary trades who could mimic anyone and came back to teach at his alma mater? I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

Seattle actors and local playwrights are joining forces to concoct new works “of regional significance,” in Washington Ensemble Theatre’s fledgling Custom Made Play Project. Sisters face off in play set in Ballard 2012-12-13T22:01:04Z

"It's about  my relationship with 'my work'," says the Irish playwright of the piece, the first of two new Walsh dramas being performed in Edinburgh this month. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z

Intercutting scenes of Jen’s moral dithering with scenes in which Waiter and Manager dither emotionally, the playwright convincingly suggests a world in which only evil is decisive. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Unemployed but calling himself a playwright, Henry is a hustler of sorts who devotes much of his energy to courting and squiring rich, older, unattached women to social and cultural events. | 'The Extra Man': Kevin Kline Charms on New York Social Scene 2010-07-29T22:23:00Z

“To see this person — who looks like no one else who’s been in that institution so far — enter it, that to me is a fascinating story and entry point,” the playwright says. Inspired by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, a new play ponders race, gender and inclusion 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

“What could, in less talented hands, be morbid, becomes both humorous and touching,” Mel Gussow wrote in The New York Times, adding that “Miss Jacker is very much a playwright to watch.” Corinne Jacker, Obie Award-Winning Playwright, Is Dead at 79 2013-01-25T01:10:30Z

When I got to college, I continued going to the theatre, yet something was wrong – I couldn't name a single young playwright who wasn't the latest novelist-turned-actor-slash-performance artist. Has French theatre lost its va-va-voom? 2011-03-23T15:02:34Z

In the wake of playwright Edward Albee’s passing, Times theater critic Charles McNulty pays tribute to what made him a standout on the American stage. Essential Arts & Culture: Photos that capture L.A., Dudamel's White House show, Trump's 'Les Miserables' moment 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Which fiction and nonfiction writers — playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — inspired you most early in your career? Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Veteran Seattle playwright Longenbaugh has formulated a nifty conceit here, and he runs with it. Review: Holmes lore wrapped up neatly in Taproot production 2010-12-02T21:36:00Z

Across the country, artists, playwrights, dancers and authors are grappling with seeing their projects waylaid, many of which took months or years to realize. It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

So what's it like tackling that beast of a playwright Tennessee Williams? | Benjamin Walker 2013-01-29T21:30:45Z

Hunter, the playwright, moved to New York City from Moscow, Idaho, to major in playwriting as an undergraduate at New York University. MacArthur Foundation surprises 21 fellows with 2014 ‘genius’ grants and $625,000

The playwright and author depicts what he called “a shadowy wood” with a clearing of some sort in the center. Perspective | Is there a difference between national art and nationalist art? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The playwright concluded that Mr. Carter’s upbringing in racially segregated Plains — he was a rarity as a white boy with mostly black playmates — fostered his “immediate kinship” with the dark-skinned Egyptian leader. ‘Camp David,’ at Arena Stage, Relives ’78 Peace Talks 2014-04-02T22:12:14Z

One of the challenges of being a playwright right now is that a lot of theaters assume you’re writing for film or television, and don’t realize how important this money is.” Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

In place of the ending the playwright wrote, the director substitutes a sentimental tableau. In ‘A Wilder Christmas,’ Darkness Laced With Sentiment 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Shows staged on Broadway are eligible for Tony Awards — a lure for playwrights and actors — and are often more appealing to tourists and casual theatergoers. Second Stage Buys Helen Hayes Theater and Settles Suit 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a vehicle, a laboratory for playwrights and actors to explore a play before an audience without worrying about the play’s future.” Hey, Kids, Let?s Put on a Reading! 2011-01-20T23:00:41Z

The money is usually used to support readings and workshops for the new plays, research, and expenses incurred in assisting the playwright. N.E.A. Gives Grants to Five Theaters for New Plays 2010-09-02T17:22:00Z

He found evidence that the playwright had visited organizations for disabled children but couldn’t find any other personal reasons that Willson may have had for writing about this issue. ‘The Music Man’ Once Had a Disabled Character. Then He Was Erased. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It will be the 74-year-old playwright's seventh play at the venue – her first since the controversial Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza in 2009. Caryl Churchill's Love and Information to premiere in New York 2013-03-13T11:27:56Z

But Brolin did his homework by reading them, and found that they brought to mind his close friend, the late playwright and actor Sam Shepard. Josh Brolin: Tough rancher in ‘Outer Range,’ softie at home 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

And a few hours after hearing the news, playwright and blogger Daniel Bye posted this thoughtful piece, addressed: "Dear Opera North". Lee Hall and Opera North: how the story went viral 2011-07-05T12:37:37Z

He is one of the most important playwrights of the last half-century, savagely deconstructing the American zeitgeist in innovative language charged with vernacular speech and weighted by existential dread. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

In Sister Margaret, the playwright created a figure of tragic dimensions. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

At that, all four actors sharing the role of Aya — the playwright — raise their hands, in character. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: ‘Who Here Hates Their Father?’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

That little white house belongs to the Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Her theater became a remarkable springboard for an impressive roster of promising playwrights, directors and actors who went on to accomplished careers both in mainstream entertainment and in push-the-envelope theater. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

The playwright Tennessee Williams and the novelist Ernest Hemingway, whose former home is now a museum, famously lived there. Literary Nonprofit Buys Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West Home 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Producers said Monday that Dancy will be in Manhattan Theatre Club's production playing a playwright. Hugh Dancy to star in Broadway's 'Venus in Fur' 2011-08-15T18:21:08Z

The BBC is developing a television adaptation of the first trilogy penned by Jack Thorne, the playwright responsible for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Her mother, Anne Ludlum, is a playwright and actress; her father, Thomas E. O’Connell, was a community college president who acted on the side. Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Recall that one of the most popular of the philosophically heady playwright's works is the 1966 dark comedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” a retelling of “Hamlet” from the perspective of the titular duo. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

In collaboration with the director Daniel Leigh and the playwright Rebecca Jane Stokes, the author of "Men to Be Feared," the company has come out with a short film. ArtsBeat: Come See Our Play. But Watch the Movie First. 2012-08-07T20:49:11Z

The story was extensively revised by librettist Heather Raffo, a New York playwright of Iraqi descent who was hired to work with Ellis on the piece. World premiere of opera 'Fallujah' in Long Beach may be among former Marine's most difficult missions 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

The poet and playwright Cherrie Moraga received a lifetime achievement award named for the late editor Bill Whitehead, and author and advice columnist John Paul Brammer won a prize for best emerging writer. Bechdel, Hough, Peters among nominees for Triangle Awards 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

I like to think that Molière, the great French playwright who died in 1673, would have really enjoyed the flagrant hypocrisy of our current political moment. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

If you have ever imagined the stories those clothes could tell, you’ll be in for a treat with “A Little Drape of Heaven,” a new audio play by the playwright Mahesh Dattani. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

But we did serve in the same year on the committee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which is given to a female playwright writing in English. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

It won the Pulitzer Prize for drama the next year and helped to transform Mr. Shepard from a fringe writer to a major playwright. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And it would have been an ingenious idea for a Bertolt Brecht play, reinforcing the alienation effect the playwright sought by subtly reminding us we were watching a show. Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Cohere conjures the playwright as an internal core of cohesion with half-predictable expression. The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Undeterred by the narrow prospects of making it as a playwright, Iannarino rented out the small Sunset Gardner Stages in Hollywood. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

She eventually leaves him with what the playwright George Bernard Shaw described as the “door slam heard around the world.” Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

“You change,” the playwright and actor Sam Shepard said. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

But in a statement, they lauded her for her support of “independent theater and new playwrights” and said that they “look forward to working with her in the future at the Rattlestick.” Gina Gershon Withdraws From 'Ironbound' 1456-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Roman playwright Terence wrote, “I am human; nothing human is alien to me.” Review: In ‘Caniba,’ a Killer Tries to Make His Case 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The story begins simply: An art student asks a well-known playwright to sign a book for her faraway friend. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Hawks had been spot on about her career, as was the playwright Moss Hart, who told her: "You realise from here you have nowhere to go but down." Lauren Bacall obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Carmen Disruption Disparate characters seek love and connection in the U.S. premiere of “Heisenberg” playwright Simon Stephens’ re-imagining of Bizet’s tragic opera. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 3-10: 'Once' at South Coast Rep and more 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

The young doctor yearned for recognition as a playwright; the merciless Byron laughed at his verse dramas and, after four months, fired him. Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott

Robertson was also a playwright, critic, journalist, professor and devoted diarist. What Contributed to American Culture After World War II? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Hytner worked to recruit playwrights as varied as the audiences he sought, taking particular pride in increasing the number of plays by women. Review | One of theater’s most accomplished directors reveals a life among the stars 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

This German playwright, poet and thinker fills a fat chapter in any academic history of drama, and his staging innovations have influenced writers and directors too numerous to mention. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z

Sensationalism, self-righteousness, sentimentality — there are plenty of traps lying in wait for playwrights examining gun violence. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Gabriels are the tenderly wrought creations of the playwright Richard Nelson. Review: Election Night With the Gabriels, a Play in Real Time 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

The concerts will feature 15 to 17 songs from Season 2 of “Smash,” including a few that were never broadcast, and a book by Julia Brownell, a playwright and former “Smash” producer. The ‘Smash’-That-Wasn’t Returns, for 3 Concerts 2013-12-06T17:02:29Z

In her autobiographical satire “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” which was on Netflix, she portrays a playwright who — refusing to believe that her dreams have an expiration date — pivots to rap as a grown woman. The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

It’s something Stana sees as a circular moment — youth helping bring to life the work of a centenarian playwright. The Old Man and the Play: Friend keeps word to Hemingway 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

In “Dana H.,” she lip-synced to harrowing audio recorded by the mother of the playwright, Lucas Hnath. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

What, exactly, does cursing do for a playwright? Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Russell's goal for 2012 is to establish a loose collective of playwrights, directors, actors, designers and others to devise projects for Intiman to produce, in a short "micro-season" mounted next summer. Seattle's Intiman Theatre plans to reopen 2011-08-24T01:26:28Z

You get more laughs in “Oh, God”: The late playwright Anat Gov’s setup is old school in its high concept, and Mitchell Hébert is pretty divine as an amusingly fallible Heavenly Father. Review | Politics and religion are juicy topics in two 90-minute comedies on D.C. stages 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

The winner will be chosen by a judge, the playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, from a list of finalists selected by a panel of special guest readers. Adam Driver’s Nonprofit Seeks Soldiers for the Stage 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Doric Wilson, a playwright whose satirical, wisecracking works are considered bricks in the foundations of the Off Off Broadway and gay theater movements, died May 7 at his home in Manhattan. Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72 2011-05-16T04:23:01Z

The third time may be the charm for Kenneth Lonergan, the playwright and filmmaker who earned six Oscar nominations for this emotionally rich, if exhausting, drama. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and More Oscar Nominees 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

When the playwright Rob Roth answers the door of his high-rise condo, he’s in a T-shirt bearing Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn.” Eavesdropping on Warhol and Capote 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

I kept thinking of British playwright Caryl Churchill as an instructive example of a writer not afraid to ruthlessly distill her adventurous visions. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The new stage drama by "One Man, Two Guvnors" playwright Richard Bean opened this week at London's National Theatre.  Rupert Murdoch-inspired satire 'Great Britain' opens in London 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The slice of plays by women was a mere 21 percent when playwright Gwydion Suilebhan tallied the offerings of the 2012-2013 season. Perspective | How are Washington theaters doing when it comes to producing plays by women? 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

He worked in various Broadway productions as an actor in small roles and as a stage manager before directing staged readings of two dramatizations of the playwright Sean O’Casey’s autobiography. Stuart Vaughan, Director and Shakespeare Expert, Dies at 88 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is a playwright who, like Parks, is warm but exacting, and is rewriting and restructuring the show as opening night nears. Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

I don't want to see either used, as I am very fond of this voluble, Russian-speaking playwright and his softly spoken wife. Clive Stafford Smith: Belarus Free Theatre risk life and death 2013-06-10T11:11:56Z

Among the famous figures campaigning for his release were the celebrated poet, author and artist Günter Grass and playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek. Michael Fassbender to play Austrian serial killer 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

For a director who tends to collaborate with living playwrights on new work, this marks a departure. Bard off-Broadway 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“I want to continue being a playwright, I guess is what I mean.” This Time, Kenneth Lonergan Has the Last Say 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Numrich, who will turn 26 on Saturday, the day before “Golden Boy” closes, grew up in St. Paul, where he was home-schooled by his father, an actor, director, playwright and professional storyteller. Seth Numrich of ‘Golden Boy’ Polishes His Boxing Moves 2013-01-14T22:11:05Z

Each of those stations has a story to tell, and the playwright Ren Dara Santiago is making sure they are being heard. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The Piano Lesson,” for which Wilson won the second of his two Pulitzer Prizes, is part of the playwright’s Pittsburgh Cycle. John David Washington Gets an Education in ‘The Piano Lesson’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

There is also speculation that Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” was based on an earlier play by the Elizabethan playwright Thomas Kyd that features a character named Hamlet who seeks revenge. On Hamlet’s Origins and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

“The excitement about this,” Sueko added, “is not just on the playwrights’ side. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

What with the closing notice already posted for Mr. Mamet’s dreary new play “The Anarchist,” which opened last week, this season has not been kind to one of America’s greatest living playwrights. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z

He feared younger or newer actors will get fewer opportunities to get the practice they need, and playwrights will see fewer works staged. For actors in L.A.'s small theaters, curtain rises on new minimum-wage rules 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

He is stern in his depiction of the playwright’s involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in 1969. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Performing in a work by a leading playwright had particular appeal as Mr. Jackman was coming to grips with the travails of “Houdini,” which had gone through multiple composers and scriptwriters. Hugh Jackman Returns to Broadway in ‘The River’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The final night was a celebration: The playwright Michael R. Jackson, who began developing this show when he was 23 and who is now 41, got a standing ovation when he took his seat. As ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ‘Supernova’ 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the missteps and hesitations — which Garces expected because there had been no time for a dress rehearsal — showed the director and playwright what they needed to winnow or speed up. Cornerstone Theater Company gives local flavors to Shakespeare 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Co-commissioning might reduce the number of commissions handed out to playwrights, but it improves the conversion rate from commission to productions. Team dreams: how can theatremakers collaborate? 2011-04-06T14:19:18Z

It was Mr. Laurents’s notion to begin the show with an almost wordless sequence for the rival gangs — hardly what you’d expect from an established playwright with a solid ego. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z

“I think a playwright who thinks that a production is supposed to be an execution of their vision is in for a bad life,” he says. Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

“That it’s essentially a conversation within an African community,” the playwright said. Can a 108-year-old opera — by Scott Joplin — be made to sing for today? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Other Hollywood stars nominated for the awards, which is limited to Broadway productions, included Jude Law for "Hamlet" and Christopher Walken in British playwright Martin McDonagh's quirky play "A Behanding in Spokane." "Fela!." "La Cage aux Folles," lead Tony nominations 2010-05-04T17:06:00Z

Mr. Sigarev won the annual award for most promising playwright from The Evening Standard of London, and his second major play, “Black Milk,” was produced in England to equal fanfare. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z

The first guest author is the playwright Theresa Rebeck, whose works include “Bad Dates,” “The Scene” and “Mauritius.” Theater Talkback: The Perils of Being Too Funny 2010-07-01T18:01:00Z

Yet the tantalizing and thought-provoking period drama chronicling a purported romance involving renowned 18th century poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller and two aristocratic sisters was a hard-sell in its homeland. 'Beloved Sisters': German period romance a tough sell even there 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Castel, the son of a famous chaabi composer, left Algiers for Paris when independence came, became an actor and playwright and has been decorated with the Legion of Honor. Algerian Chaabi Musicians Reunite in the Band El Gusto 2012-10-12T18:21:46Z

Among America’s great playwrights he was perhaps the most down to earth, the most keenly attuned to the humble but sustaining pleasures of life, as well as its unavoidable sorrows. Theater Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012-08-26T21:36:37Z

An upstart playwright turned film-maker, his work rides roughshod over Ireland, the US and the historic city of Bruges, exploding in a splash of bloody violence and plumes of pungent dialogue. Three Billboards director Martin McDonagh: 'Little girls don’t have a Marlon Brando to emulate’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The play, written by American playwright Rajiv Joseph, premiered in Los Angeles last year and went on to become a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Hirsute Robin Williams plays tiger in Broadway bow 2010-10-22T01:29:00Z

In the spring of 2001, Todd Kreidler met his boss, the playwright August Wilson, for breakfast at the Cafe Edison, as was their custom. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

In “Greetings!” which was written before the others, the playwright enlists the services of an oracular angel, who seems to leave little room for doubt about the existence of the spirit realm. | Westchester: I?m an Angel, and I?m Here to Help 2011-05-29T16:24:02Z

Tony Briggs is an indigenous Australian playwright, and it is his mum Laurel's sense of adventure that is celebrated in this genuine, heartfelt but unconvincing compilation musical. The Sapphires ? review 2011-03-07T21:29:01Z

That doesn’t mean that playwrights and directors shouldn’t interrogate or adapt the text. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

What else would a playwright do to make reparations but write a play about just that, in the process returning to her what the world had stolen: her voice. Review: In the Disturbing ‘Dana H.,’ Whose Voice Is It Anyway? 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

After a tour of playwright Henrik Ibsen’s house, we strolled through the gardens of the royal palace and back to the harbor to the Opera House. Shetland Isles to Norway: Cruising the land of the midnight sun 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

If you really want to be a playwright, this is crucial money. Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

The thing to remember about theater, Mr. Kushner concluded, is that it’s hard — not just for playwrights but even for the audience. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

I’d estimate that at least three-quarters of the play consisted of, um, elaborate monologues from one or another character describing events the playwright was unable to dramatize or chose not to. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stop Talking To Me 2010-10-21T17:37:00Z

Those musical interludes and the vignettes from the playwrights made clear that the strength of Broadway is always what’s happening on the stage, not the tacky sideshows. An Uneven Night for Kevin Spacey as Tonys Host 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

But a current production of “Tartuffe,” presented by the theater company Molière in the Park, drawing from the playwright’s original version, takes a different approach. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

For instance, he said, the playwright often divides two lines of blank verse into three discrete phrases, something Shakespeare did only rarely. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The playwright Lynn Nottage, who has thick dreads and a warm, warbling voice, has built a career on making invisible people visible.” Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

There’s just a tremendous amount of cynicism and mistrust between playwrights and theaters right now.” 2010-01-13T23:35:00Z

The playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov died in 1904, when film was still in its infancy. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“Slave Play” has divided audiences: “The response has been hyper discordant at Yale,” the playwright says. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, the playwright Dominique Morisseau and her husband, the musician James Keys, traveled back home for a wedding. Playwright Dominique Morisseau Can’t Forget the Motor City 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rivers is the first male playwright to win the award, now in its fifth year. Harrison David Rivers Wins 2018 Relentless Award 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Those helping to fund it include playwright Tom Stoppard and comedian Rowan Atkinson. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Audience discussions with the playwrights, as well as panels, will be scheduled. ArtsBeat: Washington Theaters to Produce Women’s Theater Festival 2014-01-24T20:36:02Z

A friendship with the playwright Lanford Wilson took him to the Circle Repertory Company.  A Hard-Hitting Role That?s Close to Home 2011-05-25T15:10:54Z

The playwright David Henry Hwang was the chairman of the selection committee. Maya Lin Wins $300,000 Gish Prize 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The biennial will feature 51 artists, established and emerging, and the exhibition will include choreographers, musicians, playwrights and filmmakers. The Week Ahead: Jan. 29 ? Feb. 4 2012-01-29T07:30:11Z

Male playwrights don't get talked about in this kind of way. Noises off: Problems of recognition 2010-05-21T14:58:00Z

She said she had seen of the 16th century playwright's pieces set in different eras, including World War One and Two, the American West, a health spa, and in outer space. To boycott, or not to boycott over Trumpian 'Julius Caesar' 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Some of these stories are portraits of playwrights and the inspiration behind their work; others investigate larger issues of identity on the stage. The New Yorker at the Theatre 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

I made my Off Broadway debut as a playwright in 2014 with “While I Yet Live.” Billy Porter: The First Time I Refused to Keep Playing a Stereotype 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

He is an award-winning novelist, poet, lyricist, and playwright, and his novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Where the playwright gives too much away on the page, the director cleverly fosters ambiguity in service of a more potent reveal. Review: In ‘Power Strip,’ a Syrian Story Both Bleak and Striking 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

One producer who came to see it, the playwright says, was effusive about the work but allowed as he didn’t have the stomach to participate in enlightening an audience about a jurist he despised. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Which raises the question: what kind of playwright is he? Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

While we're on the subject of plays, a frequent lament of contemporary playwrights is that it's almost impossible to make a living out of their craft. Noises off: On literature and the living wage 2010-06-08T16:18:00Z

Written and directed by the playwright Radha Blank — who also stars — it traces the rebirth of an artist with lacerating insight, a great deal of warmth and terrific comic timing. At Sundance, a Glorious Diversity of Voices Breaks Through 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The playwright strives to create a compelling picture of the incremental mental losses André sustains, through some simple and effective repositioning or removing of objects in his apartment from scene to scene. Review | In Studio’s ‘Father,’ a master class for those studying acting — or medicine 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

“The Art of Theater” and “With My Own Hands,” both by the French playwright, director and choreographer Pascal Rambert, survived the Under the Radar cancellation at this supercool avant-garde hothouse in Columbia County. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sithole and Ms. Udofia, who is also a playwright, are becoming familiar figures in the recent flowering of diasporic African plays in New York, most of them written by women. Review: A Bumpy Return to Nigeria for ‘The Homecoming Queen’ 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

“My shrink says I’m doing this for my mother,” an 80-year-old Brown told the playwright Eve Ensler of the latest fat injection into her cheeks. Review: ‘Not Pretty Enough’ Charts the Rise of Helen Gurley Brown the Sex Guru 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The play is worth dusting off only if these contradictory dimensions can be fully drawn out in the harsh ironic light of the playwright’s vision. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Stridsberg, meanwhile, is a prominent Swedish playwright, translator, and feminist, who made headlines last year by withdrawing from the Swedish Academy in the wake of a sexual-misconduct scandal there. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Those sponsorships were similar to what Delta, Bank of America and others offer today, though they also suggested a sort of reciprocity between the patron and the playwright. For Shakespeare, the Trump-stabbing “Caesar” would be business as usual 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Short of fulfilling a union requirement, there’s no reason for playwrights to keep pickpocketing Chekhov. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The author of The White House Murder Case was cartoonist, playwright and novelist Jules Feiffer, winner of an Oscar and the Pulitzer prize. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-10-05T23:05:25Z

Yet playwrights have more pressing business than keeping up with the news crawl. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Over the years, Britain's male playwrights have often formed dining clubs or cricket teams. Bryony Lavery play Thursday explores 7/7 attacks through eyes of passengers 2013-02-21T20:31:01Z

In his Daily Mail article, US playwright Murphy said he met Thompson at her home to try to resolve the matter after discovering the Oscar-winning actor was working on her own screenplay about Effie Gray. Emma Thompson's Effie cleared for release after winning second lawsuit 2013-03-21T11:47:23Z

There is pain all around — although actors are often still paid, the playwrights can lose fees and the theaters lose box office revenue and sunk production costs. Why Some Black Playwrights Are Saying Their Shows Must Not Go On 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

"Together with the Stage's naming of it as the London theatre of the year in its own Stage 100 awards, the Globe is now the leading place to celebrate our greatest playwright." Shakespeare's Globe reaps 'rare' reward at Critics' Circle awards 2013-01-15T13:01:06Z

Johnson, who was also a playwright and poet, was born in Munich, Germany, in 1949. Award-winning author Denis Johnson dies at age 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

This forced period of isolation allowed the young playwright to open up her spectrum of presentation. Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Actor-turned playwright Campbell won several new writing awards in London last season for the drama that debuted at the Royal Court Theater. 2010-02-17T17:53:00Z

Bonus: Two of the playwrights, both longtime favorites, are being presented at durable theaters run by couples, and both halves of the couple are working on the plays. The 99-Seat-Beat: Renew old friendships with 'A Love Affair' or 'Resolving Hedda' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Neither is quite the case with this intelligent, finely written and acted but insufficiently volatile double bill by Scottish playwrights David Greig and David Harrower. The Letter of Last Resort/Good With People – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-15T15:12:31Z

It’s a busy time for the American playwright in London: Her adaptation of “The Twilight Zone,” seen at the Almeida last year, is about to transfer to the West End beginning March 4. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Twilight Zone.’ And Now, Trump. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Elements of the tragic do assert themselves in “Jitney,” but all in all, the play demonstrates the playwright’s mastery of comedy better than any other play in the cycle. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cooper’s first goal was to become a playwright. J. California Cooper, Award-Winning Writer, Dies at 82 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Feiffer, who has had several prominent Off Broadway productions, said that she thinks female playwrights are more likely to be taken to task for the practice than their male counterparts are. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

His 1997 comedy, based on a play titled Out of Order by English playwright Ray Cooney, holds the record for ticket sales among Hungarian movies produced over the past two decades. 'Rambo' producer Vajna dies aged 74 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

The son of David Lambert Robertson, a naval officer, and his wife, Felicity Douglas, a playwright, Robertson was educated at Stowe school, Buckinghamshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Toby Robertson obituary 2012-07-08T17:28:50Z

The curious offstage character is the playwright, who was in college in New York at the time of his mother’s ordeal. Review | A harrowing hostage story is told with stunning subtlety in Broadway’s ‘Dana H.’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

As a budding playwright in her 20s, Ziegler avidly pursued answers to those questions. ‘Photograph 51’ puts female scientist’s work under the microscope 2013-01-30T23:37:54Z

O’Farrell explained in a phone interview that she first encountered Shakespeare’s wife at college, after becoming curious about the playwright’s family — something historians have often neglected. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Callaghan says the problem is an epidemic, particularly for female playwrights. 2016 was a stellar year for women in theater, and yet ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Keegan, a promising journalist and playwright, died in a car wreck days after graduating from Yale in May. Theater Review: ‘Independents,’ by Marina Keegan, at SoHo Playhouse 2012-09-11T20:40:08Z

An Australian play about four people from a small town trying to build new lives after a violent crime has won the 2011 Yale Drama Series award for an emerging playwright. ArtsBeat: Australian Playwright Wins Yale Drama Series Award 2011-03-22T16:36:07Z

Sometimes being a famous playwright means you have to have dinner twice on a Thursday. Spotlight shines brighter on 'Appropriate' playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

To that end he’s pressing ahead with an August fund-raising dinner for the Provincetown Theater honoring the playwright Charles Busch — though it’s now recast as a “spaced lawn party.” Can a New Arts Center Revitalize Provincetown? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Edward Albee, the playwright whose Broadway debut — “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — remains one of the best-known American plays, was mourned by the people who knew him best: those in the world of theater. ‘He Changed the World’: Artists Mourn Edward Albee 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Camus as a playwright may not be for all ages, but the political questions he poses will need to be answered by every generation. Tyranny and resistance: Albert Camus' 1948 drama 'L’État de siège' carries new relevance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Udofia, a playwright early in her career and a Playwrights Realm fellow, has writerly gifts, but at this point, they are not particularly theatrical. Review: ‘Sojourners,’ About Nigerians Assimilating to Life in the U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

He’s a southern California kid who grew up to become a poet, a playwright, and an A-list star. Val Kilmer: 'Lord, I'm never going to read this tripe!' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The article examines how likely it is that a playwright will use one function word near another, a group of tendencies they dub a “word-adjacency network.” The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I want to feel like everyone is going to be OK,” the playwright JC Lee said. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Sitting on the roof terrace of the Globe’s offices last week, Josephine, the playwright, said they had anticipated most of the complaints, and felt they were misguided. At Shakespeare’s Globe, a Nonbinary Joan of Arc Causes a Stir 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

The screenplay is by the playwright David Hare. Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mooney, it must be said, has a lot in common with the artful playwright who created him. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

As with nearly all the works in the playwright’s 10-play cycle, “Gem of the Ocean” is set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

His show, opening next April, will be I Am The Wind, a play by the Norwegian author Jon Fosse in a new version by the English playwright Simon Stephens. Young Vic hits middle age with call to enfant terrible director 2010-07-08T13:33:00Z

The Gelbs then wrote almost all of a second volume, “By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill,” which focuses on four women crucial to the playwright’s development. Barbara Gelb, Author, Playwright and Journalist, Dies at 91 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

And he says: "Looking at my journey as a playwright, I notice a similar pattern: a play of difficulty that stretches my capacity as a playwright, followed by one or two plays that come easy." Noises off: commodification, chess and Foolishness 2010-04-08T10:17:00Z

Even though the surrealists and absurdists and symbolists have long since shown us that anything is possible onstage, most playwrights and directors prefer to hew to the laws of time, gravity and thermodynamics. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

The campaign opened in Thessaloniki on Friday evening with dozens of people, clutching bags of flour, sugar and pasta, lining up to watch Irish playwright Enda Walsh's Chatroom. Will act for food: Greek theater aids crisis needy 2012-03-30T17:44:08Z

Levy is a playwright and fiction writer; her novel “Swimming Home” was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Deborah Levy on the writer's inner life 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Sheila Callaghan, a writer for TV’s “Shameless” as well as a rising playwright, has taken up the question in “Women Laughing Alone,” a lavish new production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Previn said he recently composed several string pieces for Mutter and is eyeing a possible one-act opera that he would write for Fleming in collaboration with playwright Tom Stoppard. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The nearby August Wilson Center, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Pittsburgh native, is also worth a visit. Built on Steel, Pittsburgh Now Thrives on Culture 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The show is the first installment of a new season of the YoungArts series, which pairs aspiring singers, artists, playwrights and so on with someone at the top of the profession for mentoring. The Week Ahead: May 27 — June 2 2012-05-25T18:53:41Z

He’d never had the luxury of conversations with the playwright or director. He Used to Move Pianos. Now He Moves Audiences. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

But it sometimes seems that the playwright can't decide which direction to pursue. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Although playwrights now had much more latitude, they were still liable to be prosecuted for strong language and obscenity. Hair, restored 2010-04-14T08:34:00Z

But the arts hold a mirror up to nature, which includes politics, and playwrights dating back to 5th century BC Athens have understood the uniquely public aspect of their art form. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Unlike Hollywood screenwriters who get paid but lose copyright control to the studios, playwrights — usually poorly paid — at least retain copyright. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The subject is Dana Higginbotham, a Florida hospice chaplain — and the playwright’s mother — who was held hostage for five months by a psychotic client, and who is indeed telling her own story. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

There are now a goodly number of new female playwrights; too early to tell if they'll last the course of history. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z

Mr. Urban, a New Jersey native and a playwright of works serious and absurd, clearly draws on personal experience here. Review: ‘Nibbler,’ About the Sweet Horrors of Youth 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

As for the show’s conceit, the playwright, Dave Harris, borrows from both “Waiting for Godot” and John Hughes’s classic portrait of detained and misunderstood youth, “The Breakfast Club.” Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Drop pins mark the addresses of the book’s supporting characters: the photographer, the playwright, the puppeteer. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

The life and murder of the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe have provided recurring inspiration to fiction writers. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

They called it crowd funding; scores of playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, chefs, designers and writers see it gaining serious traction. Starving artists find Web meal ticket 2011-03-09T23:30:00Z

Deathtrap Ira Levin’s hit thriller about a Broadway playwright who hatches a dark scheme. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The production company Artangel commissioned a film centred around interviews with the playwright's family; but Barnard also wanted input from residents of the estate. Back to Bradford: Andrea Dunbar remembered on film 2010-04-12T20:35:00Z

When classic texts are adapted to an Australian setting, we ask: “Are they more a product of Australia or the country of the playwright?” Angels in … Australia? 2013-06-17T05:14:00Z

Throughout her career, which covers more than four decades, this British playwright has proved herself without peer in creating expressly topical works in which form and function are one. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z

Despite Roderick’s efforts and perhaps the playwright’s intentions, all is not right with the world as the lights come down. Review: ‘Double Falsehood,’ and Just Maybe a Double Byline 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that Gina behaves in provocative ways that make sense only if you are a playwright trying to vary the texture of what otherwise amounts to a desperate monologue. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

"Being Harold Pinter" combines the writings of Pinter, the late English playwright and political agitator, with the words of Belarusian political prisoners. Belarus actors, 'Being Harold Pinter,' headed, in an emergency, to Chicago 2011-01-18T00:21:49Z

When Oliver declares that he finds life under the new restrictions “Orwellian,” it feels like the playwright is holding our hand. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The playwright also recalls that he was sporting a shaggy coiffe that was popular at the time, which prompted the movie star to tell him that he should get a haircut. 'A Delicate Balance': A look back at the Katharine Hepburn movie version 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

That same year he made his Broadway debut as a writer and director with “Something Different,” the story of a playwright suffering from writer’s block. Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

According to the Times critic Dwight Garner, this biography, an “estimable” as well as “astute and authoritative” account of the Czech-born Jewish playwright’s enormous life, “wrestles it all onto the page.” New in Paperback: ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ and More 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Adams also is working with her older sister, Lynne Adams, who acted in soap operas before she became a playwright, on a do-it-yourself series for the Internet. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

In much the same way the playwright was, by his own admission, attempting to wrestle with God in his writing, Mr. Dennehy, Mr. Falls said, goes into “a massive wrestling match with O’Neill.” ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Stars Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Why he began writing plays is a mystery, even to the playwright. Playwright Ethan Coen Fears He’s Selling Out 2013-09-13T23:32:26Z

It's also an opportunity for playwrights, he said. Does this government fear the arts and artists? 2011-01-31T18:01:00Z

We’re still not produced in the same numbers as male playwrights.” ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z

Alas, Mr. Tannen’s play, and his earlier memoir of the same name, finds Lucy sharing the stage with a portrait of the playwright as a star-struck fan turned confidant. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

“So many playwrights were leaving for film and TV. I was struck that this might be an opportunity that would give them more options.” Radio Drama for a Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved Into Theater 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Neighbors and friends are constantly dropping by, notably Alan Bennett, the playwright and London Review diarist, who seems to arrive every other night for dinner, and Claire Tomalin, the biographer and journalist. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z

“It’s the playwright being tyrannical over all of the other artists who will ever work on the play,” Mr. Gray said, adding that even “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” would not escape his pen. Paula Vogel Leads a Playwright ?Boot Camp? at Second Stage 2012-02-07T23:04:03Z

After so many artistic meetings and fundraising benefits, she’s eager to finally have a few unplanned days to follow her muse as a playwright and a director. She's stepping down from A.C.T., but Carey Perloff continues the fight for women's stories 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Several playwrights with new shows this spring recently spoke about titles that clicked and those that didn’t. Writers on the Titles They Didn’t Use 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Linney, the daughter of the playwright Romulus Linney, grew up around the theater, and a bare rehearsal studio is one of her favorite places to be. 2010-01-22T04:01:00Z

In the case of “Moonlight,” that meant bright turquoises and greens, blue-black skin tones and tropical Florida light that captured the “beautiful nightmare” playwright Tarell McCraney had in mind when he wrote the original story. Perspective | With ‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ Barry Jenkins is redefining cinematic beauty 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

"Antigone raises the cause of a woman facing ... a patriarchal authority and a male-dominant society," said Mohammed al-Attar, a Syrian playwright hired by Aperta to create the contemporary version of the play. Syrian refugees tell their stories of loss through ancient Greek play 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Robert Riskin went to Hollywood as a moderately successful New York playwright. Review | Fay Wray and Robert Riskin’s daughter revisits a Hollywood love story 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

In a recurring joke, the characters keep quoting the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and like Brecht, Rodrigues nudges the audience to adopt a critical perspective. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

In this sesquicentennial year of the Civil War, the New Black Fest — which aims to showcase innovative black playwrights — and 651 Arts have teamed up for “the American Slavery Project.” ArtsBeat: 'American Slavery Project' Focuses on Black Playwrights 2011-02-15T21:30:17Z

And you want to work with the best playwrights. Adam Driver and Keri Russell Share a Stage and Then, Maybe, Lightsabers 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

But there’s no equivalent for playwrights; 10-minute play festivals are largely the stuff of amateur scribes and college drama departments. Enda Walsh steps outside the Irish playwriting box 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

She went on to win the most promising playwright award at both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards. Matthew Kelly cast in The Seagull 2012-09-17T15:33:45Z

Johnson was an avant-garde polymath: novelist, poet, playwright, critic, filmmaker and football reporter. Summer Readings: Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe 2011-07-30T09:00:01Z

The residency program at the Here Arts Center in the South Village encourages composers, choreographers, playwrights, video artists and even puppeteers to get into one another’s business and to create freewheeling hybrids. Music Review: ?Miranda,? an Opera by Kamala Sankaram - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:17Z

Mr. Frayn, who began his career as a journalist, portrays the roistering atmosphere in the room with obvious affection, although “Alphabetical Order” reveals a playwright still coloring inside the lines. | 'Alphabetical Order': The Withering Heights and Depths of a Dying British Paper 2010-09-29T02:02:00Z

Yet the man who remains best known for his brief, stellar scenes in “The Princess Bride” is actually “one of American theatre’s finest prose stylists and most subversive playwrights”, writes Mr Lahr. Bright lights 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

They decide to start their own member-operated theater company to create important work — risky material from new playwrights with ideas not necessarily palatable to the mainstream. At Road Theatre Company, how the Equity-mandated minimum wage might play out 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Director Eric Tucker and playwright Kate Hamill of New York’s Bedlam troupe affirm the richness of theatrical opportunity in Austen’s decorously vibrant characters, in a fluid staging that sparkles with wit and invention. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

On a recent afternoon Lily Padilla, an actress and playwright, poured herself a mug of coffee and settled into a plush club chair facing walls of scripts. In New York, Everywhere a Writing Nook 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

A playwright, construction manager and compere, he pursued many directions in a full life. Adrian Bunting obituary 2013-05-20T14:34:02Z

Mort is gentle and peculiar, a poor young man who wears bow ties and dreams of being a playwright. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

When the maverick playwright and director Charles Marowitz ran the Open Space theatre in London he did a fascinating adaptation of Wilde's The Critic as Artist. Silent Partners – review 2013-07-02T18:34:58Z

‘SONS OF THE PROPHET’ In the standout play of the fall season, the playwright Stephen Karam depicted a kaleidoscope of human suffering with both biting humor and boundless compassion. Favorite Nights at the Theater 2011-12-17T01:30:04Z

Effective as the quietly seething Tom, Patric comes to the play with a special connection: his father was playwright Miller, who died in 2001. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters. ACT to stage the electrifying 'In the Next Room' by Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:32:04Z

“I’d say three to five of our playwrights are each receiving five-figure sums from royalties that they hadn’t been receiving before the policy change,” he said. Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

The tables below show how the 10 theatres break down by actors employed, playwrights of new plays and live commissions. Women in theatre: how the '2:1 problem' breaks down 2012-12-10T19:30:01Z

Ms. Gilot’s friend, the actor and playwright Thérèse Crémieux, who interviewed her for the pamphlet that is included in “Three Travel Sketchbooks,” is the one who convinced her to publish this book. In a New Book of Sketches, Françoise Gilot Clears Her Mind of the Past 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

A theater lyricist is a playwright who writes short plays in verse that have to be set to music. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Friel wrote more than a dozen plays in the next 15 years and was acclaimed as Ireland’s finest playwright since Sean O’Casey and Samuel Beckett. Brian Friel, playwright who wrote about his native Ireland, dies at 86 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

A reading from the speeches, diaries and letters of Malcolm X will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and feature Kathleen Cleaver, the law professor and activist, and Darryl Pinckney, the novelist and playwright. Spare Times for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:35:12Z

In an opening monologue, B. J. J., “a black playwright,” recounts a conversation with his therapist, about his lack of joy in theatre. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

“I always believe in following the advice of the playwright Sardou. He said: ‘Torture the women!’ Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Becoming Human Celebrity therapist and playwright Dr. Nicki J. Monti explores her difficult relationship with her mother in this new dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 23-30: 'As You Like It,' REDCAT's NOW Festival and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

But for female playwrights, the season seemed like business as usual: Of the nine new plays produced on Broadway this year, two were written by women — the same as in 2015. Collective Releases its Annual List of Plays by Female and Transgender Writers 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The violinist and composer Layale Chaker, who was born in France and raised in Lebanon, is writing the music, to a libretto by Lisa Schlesinger, a playwright, activist and educator from New York. Opera About Refugee Children to Premiere at Spoleto Festival 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

The Actors Company Theater’s satisfying revival is the sort of production that makes you realize how much you’ve missed a playwright’s voice. Review: In ‘Abundance,’ by Beth Henley, Mail-Order Brides Find Husbands and Lice 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

They need a play doctor, or better yet a playwright, who can structure their story more effectively. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Henderson was researching the city’s Hill District for a role in Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” and a chance encounter with one of the playwright’s sisters led to an introduction. Stephen McKinley Henderson, an August Wilson Stalwart 2010-06-08T22:21:00Z

By contrast, it’s rare for a major playwright to risk a holiday play. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater 2010-12-23T00:24:33Z

It is rare for a young playwright to be in such confident command of all the theater’s resources as Ms. Herzog is here. Theater Review: ?Belleville? at Yale Repertory Theater - Review 2011-11-04T22:39:42Z

And Ms. Fleming will join the Emerson String Quartet to perform the world premiere of “Penelope,” by Mr. Previn and the playwright Tom Stoppard. A Tanglewood Summer of Bach, Wagner and Renée Fleming 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

That was the title of a monologue by playwright Mike Daisey. In defense of film and TV "hoaxes" 2010-10-22T14:31:00Z

A hundred and twenty-one years ago, the Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor after withdrawing his writ for criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The young playwright Delaney Britt Brewer has created an intricately woven, emotionally chilly drama about the pain of approaching 30 in New York. | 'Wolves': Drama by Delaney Britt Brewer at 59E59 Theaters 2010-08-09T02:00:00Z

This echoes a device by which the playwright rewinds key exchanges between her characters to reach different outcomes. | 'Lascivious Something': Greek Time Travel at Julia Miles Theater 2010-05-18T21:27:00Z

Simon, the most commercially successful American playwright of the 20th century, could also draw. Library of Congress Acquires Neil Simon Papers 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

It will be directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Both playwright and director are Black and will be making their Broadway debuts. Play ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ to get a Broadway run 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

For this dramatic excursion, it seems, the playwright has overpacked, filling this quintessential D.C. story with a fatiguing amount of exposition. ‘All the Way’: At Arena, a master class in LBJ and the Civil Rights Act 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

This one starred Blank as a washed-up Harlem playwright whose midlife creative crisis has lured her into underground Brooklyn rap. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Undaunted by this relative dearth, or maybe stimulated by it, Zambello called the playwright Ken Ludwig last summer to ask if he would be interested in writing the libretto for the project. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

“Edward didn’t want to be reviewed as a gay playwright and was never comfortable coming out,” Mr. McNally told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2018. Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to see why such talent would rally around the work, which was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, given to a female playwright. Theater Review: In ‘Tough Titty,’ a Family Confronts Breast Cancer 2014-04-29T21:40:39Z

Before “The Affair,” Ms. Treem was a writer and producer on the therapy drama “In Treatment,” and she is also a playwright. Ask a Show Runner: Submit Questions for Sarah Treem of ‘The Affair’ 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

She is expanding Everybody Down into a novel next year; she is also a playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The show depicts, in reverse chronological order, the fracturing of a three-way friendship between a composer, a playwright and a novelist who meet in their early 20s. ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Will Transfer to Broadway Next Fall 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

By 1956 she was seriously immersed in Method acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and making plans to wed the playwright Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe?s Strap Snaps Again on Film 2011-11-12T22:13:02Z

Cyrano de Bergerac is, we are told, a “soldier, poet, philosopher, magician, playwright … and the best swordsman in Paris.” Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Samuel D. Hunter, 33, New York: The playwright was born and raised in Idaho and pens dramas that often are set there. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

As a playwright, she weaves the insect imagery into her script’s concerns with vulnerability, loyalty, mortality and resilience. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brace, who had once been a playwright, helped edit the shows with a sophisticated ear to what audiences wanted. Adam Brace, Director of Ambitious One-Person Shows, Dies at 43 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

There are too many playwrights to squeeze comfortably into a single photograph but we have invited 11 – a dramaturg's dozen – to come and say goodbye. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

“I never thought of Miller as a great playwright before,” he said, late one afternoon in February, another day’s rehearsal of “The Crucible” in an East Village basement space under his belt. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

O’Connell, 70, an actress of absolute passion and precision, has made her career Off and Off Off Broadway, enriching the work of two generations of playwrights, in works both traditional and very strange. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

But great playwrights leave actors space to create, and these creations deserve to be seen. Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, The New York Times asked four contemporary writers to envision lost and rebooted scenes from some of the playwright’s works. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

But both plays argue for Malleson as a playwright of insight and wit and cool compassion. Review: ‘Conflict’ Reaches Across the Decades and the Aisle 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

She described Ms. Shange as “the first African-American female playwright I saw welcomed into the mainstream.” A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z

In using the distancing effects of language as a blunt instrument simultaneously to create strangeness and cut more deeply to the heart of human experience, Ms. Bent follows a long tradition of adventuresome playwrights. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z

Still, no contemporary playwright is better at the long game of setting up jokes, and making them pay unexpected philosophical dividends. Review: A Raucous Wake for ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Established by a consortium of theatrical organizations, ReImagine awarded grants in 2021 to playwrights who were Black, Indigenous or people of color. In ‘Heart Strings,’ the Ties That Bind a Family (and a Culture) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

A few blocks away, the acclaimed African-American repertory company Hattiloo Theater recently cast the award-winning playwright Katori Hall as its artistic director. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

It took two years of workshops, involving as many as 10 playwrights, to reach the form Feast is in now. Feast: the Young Vic goes Yoruba 2013-01-30T19:30:01Z

Pairing emerging and established playwrights with theater companies is the baseline of the Sol Project’s partnerships, Mr. Padrón said. Sol Project Aims to ‘Create a New Canon’ of Latino Theater 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Our fantasy festival is a street closure, with all the venues on one block, and the opportunity to drink a beer with our playwrights.” FringeNYC Will Return in 2018, in a Smaller Version 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Though long a repertory staple, Goldoni’s farce attracted renewed interest when the British playwright Richard Bean rejiggered it as “One Man, Two Guvnors.” Goldoni’s ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ in the Country 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The playwright also held up a moral mirror to audiences in “Power Strip,” a story about Syrian refugees at a migrant camp in Greece, which debuted at Lincoln Center in 2019. ‘Selling Kabul’ Holds Up a New Mirror After the Taliban Takeover 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

In his stead, playwright Ken Urban has used them as a pivot point for his techno-thriller about a man who falls in love with the female voice answering his lost mobile phone. Coming up on Seattle stages: Fun-loving gents, a military widow, an aggravating sister and more 2010-03-18T21:22:00Z

At Shakespeare festivals at opposite ends of the country, audiences that want Shakespeare in modern flavors will encounter playwrights hard at work trying to please them. Perspective | The dilemma for Shakespeare theaters: Increasing audiences without selling their souls 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Know Theater in Cincinnati did not take the easy way with a new effort from the playwright Caridad Svich, which interrogates the nature of theater and what makes a play a play. Theater to Stream: Lincoln Center Theater Joins the Fray 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hall, who is making her Broadway debut as a playwright this month with “The Mountaintop,” won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize this year for “Hurt Village.” ArtsBeat Blog: Signature Theater Company Announces Plays and Discounted Tickets 2011-09-28T16:45:25Z

Slovo, the playwright, said in a recent interview at the theater that she understood such reactions, but hoped the play’s critics would “come and see what we’ve done.” Depicting the Grenfell Tragedy Onstage, in the Survivors’ Own Words 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

He was also an accomplished playwright and a poet. Soumitra Chatterjee, legend of Indian cinema, dies at 85 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

This show provides an inviting gateway to audiences new to one of the greatest of British playwrights, while reminding disciples of the human warmth within his icy mazes. | Two Plays by Harold Pinter: Essence of Pinterland, a Terrain Both Warm and Flecked With Ice 2010-11-23T05:16:00Z

Modern filmmakers try best the words of the master playwright, but all they achieve is an ode to Henry V which has influenced every battle speech since. Clip joint: battle speeches 2013-06-19T15:17:31Z

The book’s flailing heroine, Cass, an emerging playwright, flees New York after a disastrous opening night. Working in TV, Jen Silverman Wrote a Novel. About Theater. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

His character, a young Iraq war veteran named Elliot Ortiz, had faced up to so many traumas already; burdening him with self-doubt at the climax seemed a cruel twist by the playwright. Armando Riesco Reflects on His Role in the Elliot Trilogy 2014-03-11T21:42:42Z

Of course, Euripides being Euripides, a playwright tagged as so woman-hating that his colleague Aristophanes could write a comedy about it, this experiment ends very, very badly. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Shawn, a playwright whose work conforms to no dramatic handbook, obsessively teases out the contradiction and ironies in his tale. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

In these final performances, the playwright Drew Droege once again puts on the Hawaiian shirt and picks up the cocktail glass as gossipy Gerry. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Three days before the first preview performance of her first Broadway production, the playwright Selina Fillinger perched in the middle of the empty mezzanine of the Shubert Theater, peering down upon the set. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

This one, directed by the playwright and performed by his Hotel Savant company as part of the Coil Festival, packages its enigmas in a viewer-friendly blend of racy tableaus and deconstructed language. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z

“In a serious town like D.C., we collect art that has whimsical side to it,” says Trish Vradenburg, a novelist, playwright and television writer. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow

In the last and oddest of them, a male chorus implores listeners to draw close to Allah, singing from the text of an early 19th-century version of “Aladdin” by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Ann Ardis, director of the university’s humanities center, said the grant was made based on Mr. Robbins’s general proposal, which included guest lectures on campus by the selected playwright, and not on a particular script. Staging the Politics of Abortion 2011-04-13T22:20:09Z

When we last met Ethan Lipton, the wry and mustachioed playwright and songwriter, in “No Place to Go,” he was debating whether or not to move to Mars. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the playwright’s ambitions are unmatched by his storytelling skills in this workmanlike melodrama. | 'Banished Children of Eve': Hustlers and Lovers Endure the Civil War Era 2010-10-27T21:49:00Z

“Without playwrights, there is no theater,” Mr. Lazarus said. Free Tickets for Playwrights Who Can’t Afford the Theater 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Miniaturists are celebrating their seventh birthday at the Arcola on Sunday with five new plays by new and established playwrights. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-23T16:10:31Z

In a barrier-busting Broadway debut, the young playwright Jeremy O. Harris turned a sex therapy workshop into a scathing consideration of the great and unbridgeable American racial divide. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the mid-1990s, actress Michele Shay had the privilege of rehearsing with playwright August Wilson on site at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’

That allure must have been what compelled the 11 young playwrights, supported by the theater company Ars Nova, to compose an evening of 10-minute works based on classic board games. Weekend Miser: One-Acts From Young Playwrights 2014-02-06T22:39:07Z

Why would a playwright design a play so that the most moving thing in it is the audience? Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

In 2012 the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis devoted a season to the works of Mr. Hampton, the British playwright who wrote “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” among other plays, and asked him for a new piece. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Mr. Allen’s 1994 film about a 1920s playwright and the gangsters and molls who become involved with his new show, “Bullets” opened in April to mixed reviews and struggled to generate ticket sales. "Bullets Over Broadway," the Musical, to Close Aug. 24 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

While the Public previously took an average of 10 percent of royalties for productions mounted over a 10-year period, it will now forgo that percentage until playwrights earn $75,000 in royalties from runs elsewhere. Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

Under Ms. Goldhirsch’s stewardship, the group worked to expand the pool of young playwrights it mentored. Sheri M. Goldhirsch, Who Nurtured Young Playwrights, Dies at 55 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Baker, an office worker turned playwright, had some of that daring herself, going into a line of work not known to be welcoming to women. ‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Theaters are formulating survival plans, and playwrights and actors and directors are dreaming up digital projects. Perspective | ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is postponed at the Kennedy Center. It’s okay to grieve. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Lee’s ongoing dramatic project is identity, and her sly, often difficult works, such as “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven” and “The Shipment,” have placed her at the forefront of playwrights wrestling with stereotypes. ‘Straight White Men’ hits a sweet spot — and a nerve — at Studio Theatre 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Is it possible right now to be a playwright and not be political? Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The playwrights’ research also drew on the memories of people who knew Karski at Georgetown — and, in one case, Young said, at a local dentist’s office. Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

That “The Little Foxes” has not been judged to be quite in their league is an oversight that Arena seems intent on redressing as part of a significant reconsideration of the playwright’s work this season. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gurney knew of what his fictional playwright speaks. A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Also found in the trove are correspondences from her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, and from friends including Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Jane Russell, along with various paintings, photographs and clothes. Marilyn Monroe's Love Letter Up for Auction 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily The detective, his friend Dr. Watson and playwright Oscar Wilde try to foil a plot against the British crown in Katie Forgette’s mystery thriller. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 12-19: Four Larks' 'Undine,' 'Chasing Mem'ries' and more 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

I remember reading the list of those writers who died in despair and the playwrights specifically: Molière, Bulgakov… it's a horrendous list. David Hare: 'Working in theatre, you're less at the whim of stupid people' 2013-01-20T00:06:22Z

One was a Hollywood pin-up who had survived a poor, unhappy childhood to become a worldwide sex symbol married to playwright Arthur Miller. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z

Barry Edelstein in Conversation With Steve Martin The Old Globe’s artistic director chats with the actor, comic, musician and playwright about his new play, “Meteor Shower.” L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In 1977, at the Shaw Theater, Mr. Aubrey played Tom Wingfield, the emotionally burdened son of an aging Southern belle, in Tennessee Williams’s “Glass Menagerie,” a production attended by the playwright. James Aubrey, Who Played the Hero in ?Lord of the Flies,? Dies at 62 2010-04-18T04:02:00Z

And now Balagan Theatre's third roundup of short-shorts offers comic mockery of the current political circus from a slew of local playwrights. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z

Move on to “When We Were the Kennedys,” by the novelist and playwright Monica Wood, a memoir of growing up in the mill town of Mexico, Maine. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

This love song to naturalism makes a case for Chekhov as one of the few playwrights who can somehow capture life as lived experience — its boredom, its disappointments, its fragile hopes and giddy late-night interludes. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the Criterion, producer Samuel Hodges invited playwrights to suggest Olympian dramas. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z

In any case, with some Shakespeare plays we are still disputing the text as much as the authorship – and, of course, the playwright is not on hand to make any kind of complaint. Should a playwright have the final say over a production? 2013-07-25T11:43:37Z

Lolita Chakrabarti picked up her second most promising playwright award, following her win at the Evening Standard awards in November, while Adrian Lester was named best actor for his portrayal of Aldridge. Shakespeare's Globe reaps 'rare' reward at Critics' Circle awards 2013-01-15T13:01:06Z

Should playwrights direct their own work, as Mr. Mamet did with “The Anarchist” and his last new drama on Broadway, “Race”? David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z

The playwright, actor and Steppenwolf Theater member is giving back to that esteemed company with three short online pieces. Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

One of his goals was to lead the charge of a new generation of playwrights who would provide an alternative to the Sondheims of the world. What Did Stephen Sondheim Really Think of ‘Rent’? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

He mentioned a good friend, Jordan E. Cooper, the playwright and star of “Ain’t No Mo’,” and the early closing last fall of that show, which had a mostly Black creative team. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

“This play is weirdly married to its architecture,” the 35-year-old playwright is saying in a coffee shop on East Broadway, close to his Lower East Side home. How a humane playwright made it all the way to Broadway 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Jonson, a playwright and “Britain’s first literary celebrity,” was a contemporary of Shakespeare. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Ben Jonson, In and Out of Shakespeare's Shadow 2012-01-20T22:29:35Z

A representative from the Broad Stage, where this bill of three short plays by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett opened Thursday, went to inordinate lengths to stave off a wave of night terrors in the audience. If you're going to see Beckett's late short plays, Lisa Dwan is the actress you want to perform them 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

He told Watkins of Burke’s extraordinary devotion to playwrights, which Watkins marveled at nonetheless when she questioned him closely on the pronunciation he intended for the exclamation “Agh,” which appears repeatedly in her lines. An ‘Impossible Dream’ Comes True, Again, for Marylouise Burke in ‘Epiphany’ 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

A cannier playwright would let the characters’ qualities emerge through action or would leave it up to the audience to make certain determinations. Review: ‘Sojourners,’ About Nigerians Assimilating to Life in the U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

To make up for it, the playwright eventually brings out the gun you’ve been expecting all along. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Lorraine Hansberry’s early death at 34 meant that she was remembered mostly as the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” and not much else. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

At 41, he is brutally aware how few British playwrights manage to sustain their careers into their 50s and beyond. A Curious Incident on stage: the National does Mark Haddon's novel 2012-07-25T18:01:00Z

But in his heart, Luke is a playwright, a secret genius far from the London theater world, waiting for his big break. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world

The centenary year of playwright Arthur Miller's birth is being marked with an explosion of productions around the UK in 2015. All My Sons tour marks Miller centenary 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

As a playwright, I look to tell stories that are framed against great political rupture. ‘Oslo’ and the Drama in Diplomacy 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

And the commitment went beyond a single show — part of Nicola’s belief that directors are equal partners with playwrights in an American theater system that tends to privilege the latter. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

And as a playwright, Jim wants to sit with an entire section of Bell’s life before he moves on.” Jim Lehrer’s New Play, ‘Bell,’ Is Opening in Washington 2013-09-11T21:49:44Z

Two productions of plays by Israel Horovitz have been canceled in the wake of a report in The New York Times that nine women have accused the playwright of sexual misconduct. Israel Horovitz Plays Canceled After Sexual Misconduct Accusations 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The comic playwright Aristophanes in the 5th century BC pointed the finger at those clever rhetoricians whose weasel, winning words made what was in fact bad seem good, and vice versa. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z

An award-winning playwright since his mid-twenties, with his 1996 The Beauty Queen of Leenane, he turned to the stage only after studios had rejected all his film scripts. Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun 2012-10-11T12:00:26Z

It's the stripey one-piece bathing costume that makes the image of George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, socialist and Nobel laureate, terrifyingly memorable. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover the larky private man 2010-09-08T10:22:00Z

The Arbor The life of a British playwright told through fact and fiction. This week's new films 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The drama, titled Longitude, was created by experimental theatre company Elastic Future and playwright Tim Wright, and was part of the London International Festival of Theatre. Digital theatre: 'A new sort of artform' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

That same year he married Ms. D’Arcy, an actress and playwright. John Arden, British Playwright, Dies at 81 2012-04-03T18:15:07Z

"For Colored Girls" brought a best movie and best director statue for Perry, who is also a producer, actor and playwright. "For Colored Girls", Perry win big at Image Awards 2011-03-05T04:17:19Z

The crowd changed - from the postwar displaced to the likes of Warhol, playwright Arthur Miller and local literary and artistic giants, to business travelers, students and tourists. Viennese Cafe Icon Hawelka dead at 100 2011-12-29T20:37:07Z

This “Anna Karenina,” scripted by British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard and set by Wright on a stylized Russian theater stage, seems a whirl of constant motion; Law’s Karenin is the still point within it. Jude Law: ‘thrilled’ to be part of ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-16T23:22:13Z

I appreciate that about the park — rather than every statue representing a general or a king, playwrights, poets, writers and their stories are peppered throughout, showing an appreciation of the cultural side of history. In the heart of Madrid, a park for all seasons 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The work of Simon, Broadway’s most commercially successful playwright, who died in 2018, has been in a drought of late. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick revive a Broadway tradition: An out-of-town play tryout 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Gray Area” by the New York playwright Chisa Hutchinson uses glib humor in defense of one of the enduring post-Ferguson mottos: Black Lives Matter. Ferguson Events Reverberate at One-Minute Play Festival 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

“I always wanted to be a playwright,” he said sincerely as he sat in front of the fake fire. With ‘Significant Other,’ Joshua Harmon Happily Writes About the Unhappy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The drama starts soon after the playwright’s introductory remarks, except it doesn’t look anything like a theater production. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Germans sometimes label Mozart the Shakespeare of music, but no composer cared about this playwright more than Verdi. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

One of these is the newfangled cheekiness that suffuses playwright Mike Bartlett’s “King Charles III,” which begins at Shakespeare Theatre Company on Feb. 7. From Bechdel to Chekhov, literary stars inspire this spring’s D.C. theater choices 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The play is the latest indicator of an emerging trend: American playwrights who are the daughters of immigrants from Africa. Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Four of the eight playwrights are women and three are writers of color. Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, she worked as a telephone operator at a hotel where she said she listened in on the conversations of a then-unknown playwright, Tennessee Williams. Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In his “Apple Family Plays and the Gabriels,” the playwright Richard Nelson offered a melancholy hat tip to Anton Chekhov. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

This assumption made it common for editors to palm off parts of the “Henry VI” plays, which have often been deemed crude and faulty, on other playwrights, like Thomas Nashe or George Peele. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The project has since been scaled back to one playwright at a time. Curtain falling on American Century Theater, with 2014-2015 its final season

Modern playwrights are too scared to tackle issues like religious fundamentalism, says Athol Fugard. South African dramatist Athol Fugard says today's playwrights are shirking the big issues. Do you agree? 2010-09-01T11:54:00Z

Perry, of course, started his entertainment career as a playwright. ‘Nomadland’ Makes History, and Chadwick Boseman Is Upset at the Oscars 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

According to the press release, Pulitzer finalist Will Eno will serve as the playwright, and the musical will feature original songs backed by a live band. Skittles announces Super Bowl Sunday commercial will be a Broadway musical 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

"Yes, it's weird, it's crazy," said British playwright Lucy Prebble, 29, in an interview. Enron on Broadway: tale of risk is itself risky 2010-04-23T16:38:00Z

“A good story, well told, can extend the space in which we are free,” the playwright writes in a program note. Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Though he remains deeply uncomfortable watching his work being performed, he is enjoying his life as a TV actor, stage veteran and now playwright. Actor Hamish Linklater evolves into playwright 2013-01-31T14:16:10Z

“There’s something in it for everyone,” the playwright and director Robert O’Hara said. Robert O’Hara Thinks ‘Men Are Stupid.’ His New Play Shows Just How. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The playwright's work suited her - the tormented characters, the great, gothic theatricality of it all. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z

O'Neill, who died in 1953, is the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Yale library acquires 'lost' Eugene O'Neill script 2011-10-19T17:22:12Z

But she was surprised to find that Dominican playwrights weren’t being produced on the city’s English-language stages. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

While maintaining his career as the most-produced playwright in the world, he is also moonlighting as the most-cited provider of metaphors for the Trump era — and particularly its denouement. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

And that is predicated on having more playwrights.” D.C.’s secret export: theater 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Forsman’s imbalanced production, however, the lucid depiction of this Brahmin couple is not quite the full family portrait the playwright intended. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z

There’s a common denominator as a playwright and as a filmmaker. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Thriller Director Who’s Afraid of Blood 2014-04-24T17:00:49Z

But with just 40 theaters on Broadway, and a good chunk of them taken up with long-running shows, the odds keep narrowing for the emergence — and more important, the nurturing — of American playwrights. Second Stage Hopes $58 Million Plan Aids American Playwrights 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The New York playwright specializes in chronicling the rougher side of city life, and has earned critical raves and a Tony Award nomination for his work. Stephen Adly Guirgis wins Steinberg playwrighting award 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

To her credit, Winkler never condescends to her Southerners — a welcome departure from other recent playwrights who fetishize their characters’ regionalisms. A fractured family tries to piece itself together in 'Kentucky' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The shifting theater landscape and increased financial pressures led to the decision, said the founding artistic director, Robert Lyons, who is also a playwright and director. New Ohio Theater Announces It Will Close After Three Decades 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

His singular Broadway career began as a playwright and ended with his directing the 2009 revival of “West Side Story.” Comparing Stage Notes on Laurents 2011-05-10T22:35:23Z

The office is supplied with colorful cases of La Croix sparkling water — a sign that this uncompromising playwright sees these writers rooms as a cross. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

The script may not be sacroscanct in rehearsals, a playwright has announced. Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z

Poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell completed this adaptation shortly before his death in 2008 and it receives its world premiere here. This week's new theatre 2012-11-10T00:06:26Z

Provocation is at the top of the to-do list of this young black playwright. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z

“Here we had to match a statue to a playwright to an actor.” In ‘Talking Statues,’ Sing London Gives Artwork a Voice 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rudin argued that in approving a famous playwright like Mr. Sorkin, Ms. Lee and her representatives must have anticipated that he would want to put a unique spin on the material. Broadway ‘Mockingbird’ Is Back on Track, as Court Dispute Ends 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

With a threatening soundtrack and the occasional simple red-light wash, as the late Tokyo playwright Koharu Kisaragi wrote, "the film makes you break out in sweat just by shooting a safe, peaceful gymnasium." Flatpack film festival turns spotlight on Takashi Ito 2010-04-01T15:00:00Z

The Elgin-born playwright is no gangsta rapper, though you can't deny the social dysfunction and casual violence of her view on the world. The Artist Man and the Mother Woman – review 2012-11-08T17:26:40Z

Funded, with New York Theater Workshop, two $50,000 commissions for new works by Black women playwrights. ‘It’s More Money Than I Imagined.’ So He’s Giving Some of It Away. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Special citations were awarded to the Lincoln Center Festival, actress Viola Davis - currently on Broadway in "Fences" - and playwright Annie Baker, author of two plays seen off-Broadway this season, "Circle Mirror Transformation" and "The Aliens." Drama Critics name 'Orphans Home Cycle' best play 2010-05-01T00:37:00Z

He was 30, with a long history as a playwright and actor, when he changed his birth name, James Miller, to Ewan MacColl and devoted himself to folk. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Jujamcyn Theaters already had a theater named for the playwright August Wilson, and the Shubert Organization announced in March that it would rename the Cort Theater after the actor James Earl Jones. In a First for Broadway, a Theater Will Be Renamed for Lena Horne 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The company apologized publicly, and within a week had pledged that the following season at its Mark Taper Forum would feature only work by women or nonbinary playwrights. Why Some Black Playwrights Are Saying Their Shows Must Not Go On 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

He's also tackling the challenge of writing about this experience in a culture that expects its minority playwrights to follow paths prescribed by white institutions. 'Bootycandy' adorns itself with flamboyance, ribaldry, hilarity and unsettling poignancy 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

That film featured Monroe working opposite Sir Laurence Oliver and was shot when Monroe was on a honeymoon with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller. Michelle Williams in "Marilyn" film gets NY debut 2011-08-04T21:40:04Z

“Oscar — let’s not say he was a poet — was a lyricist and a playwright,” Mr. Sondheim said. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Censorship and the threat of punishment, however, didn’t mean that playwrights of the Tudor period never commented on living monarchs onstage. For Shakespeare, the Trump-stabbing “Caesar” would be business as usual 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Start the conversation > IN THE RAMBLING, stylishly renovated landmark building that houses ACT Theatre, a throng of Seattle actors and directors, musicians and playwrights are hard at work on every stage. It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z

It’s a question that seems to be on playwrights’ minds. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

They decided to convene playwrights and actors to raise money for No Kid Hungry, a national Share Our Strength campaign that works to end childhood hunger. Making Theater Essential, Digitally 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Another failed relationship, with a German playwright, was “shattering.” Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z

While acknowledging that the young playwright Katori Hall will be produced on Broadway this fall, Ms. Nottage asked: “What about African-Canadian writers or writers from England or Caribbean whose voices don’t get heard?” Forging a Festival for Black Playwrights 2010-06-30T20:21:00Z

On April 23, 1864, dignitaries laid a cornerstone for a monument to the playwright in Central Park. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

An award-winning playwright, novelist and actor best known for creating edgy one-man shows and caustic characters like "Talk Radio" shock jock Barry Champlain, Bogosian unearths one of the genocide's obscure yet dramatic chapters. Eric Bogosian's 'Operation Nemesis' chases Turkish perpetrators 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

While he is best known for his theatrical work, the avant-garde stage director and playwright Robert Wilson is an all-around creative soul who, among other things, also paints, draws, sculptures and designs lighting and furniture. | Q&A: Robert Wilson on His Passion for Chairs 2011-09-21T22:57:02Z

But I don't think Broadway should be the ultimate goal of today's best playwrights. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Kushner and some other well-known playwrights mixed insight with affection for their younger selves when they spoke recently about their first professionally produced works, and whether they rewrite old scripts. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

As a teen, he was enamored with the artist and his Factory, where a hodgepodge of drag queens, playwrights and other intellectuals gathered. 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

When she commissioned Beaton some 15 months ago, the playwright assumed he would deliver a modern political play. Alistair Beaton and Anthony Neilson: double trouble 2010-07-27T20:31:00Z

But this early effort makes many of the mistakes common to fledgling playwrights. | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z

Plenty of directors with connections to hip playwrights will apply. Perspective | How Howard Shalwitz led Woolly Mammoth’s stampede 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Elliott argues Williams mined his life for the character of Alexandra: the gay playwright was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and paid for sex. Kim Cattrall and Marianne Elliott on sex, age and Sweet Bird of Youth 2013-06-10T18:30:01Z

He retained the outward appearance of a struggling off-Loop playwright in Chicago, where one can find plenty of talent, drive and considerable skill but little glamour. After 'A Steady Rain,' instant success for Keith Huff 2011-05-27T18:57:00Z

In a statement to the New York Times, playwright McNally said Mullally's "decision to withdraw at this late date is devastating". Mullally leaves Broadway comedy 2010-03-25T10:39:00Z

He was sent the "'71" script, written by acclaimed Scottish playwright Gregory Burke, and immediately responded to it. Yann Demange goes for bold in Northern Ireland-set feature debut ''71' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Among playwrights whose work was produced at theaters for young audiences, 36 percent were women, up from 33 percent, while 20 percent were people of color, up from 9 percent. Theaters for Young Audiences Say They Need to Be More Diverse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. McCann, a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, worked last summer with the "Harper Regan" playwright, Simon Stephens, in the theater's production of his play "Bluebird," which starred Simon Russell Beale. ArtsBeat: Mary McCann Nabs Plum Role in 'Harper Regan' 2012-08-16T17:15:37Z

Listen to my conversation with Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright, activist and author of "The Apology." Eve Ensler on men and #MeToo: "I have never heard a man publicly, authentically, deeply apologize" 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

Will Eno, a playwright who packs big emotions and big ideas into small, nondescript packages, returns with a new play. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The play is scheduled to run from July 7 until Aug. 23 at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, a New York city venue known for supporting the work of emerging playwrights. James Franco Is Now a Theater Director, Too 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s seen deep engagement by our inaugural group of playwrights with Orange County’s communities. We’re looking forward to building on this success with this second round of funding.” South Coast Repertory gets second Time Warner grant to develop new work 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

At 36, she was only a year past her divorce from her third husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. George Barris, Photographer Who Captured the Last Images of Marilyn Monroe, Dies at 94 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Playwrights say artistic directors are obsessed with selling tickets in spite of their nonprofit missions and with pleasing board members by favoring world premieres or playwrights who are already admired by critics. 2010-01-13T23:35:00Z

As a young actor, Cannavale cherished a volume of six collected plays by the playwright. Bobby Cannavale looks back at being 'invisible' 2013-04-03T12:54:51Z

The reality TV star, author, playwright and stand-up comedian will appear Friday and Saturday at the Paramount Theatre. Everyone is fair game for Kathy Griffin 2011-11-01T05:58:20Z

"Things were looking gloomy," recalls ACT's artistic director, Kurt Beattie, a respected local actor, director and playwright who was being treated for lung cancer at the time. It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z

“You’re combining an innovative formal idea with an absolute master playwright.” The Apple Family’s Checking In on Zoom. You’re Invited, Too. 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

“She was a very successful screenwriter before then becoming a Broadway playwright before then becoming one of the best-selling novelists of a generation. And this is all in her second language.” Summer Is the Time for Stretching 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Montparnasse Cemetery contains the graves of other well known people, including philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, and writers Simone de Beauvoir and Charles Baudelaire. Surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb vandalized in Paris 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

As a director and playwright, Roth relishes generating electricity, pushing audiences to think beyond what they already believe. Jewish groups argue over who gets to argue

"Quick, name five modern Canadian playwrights," he demands. Noises off: Canadian playwrights and jukebox musicals 2012-07-06T15:15:36Z

The playwright Keenan Scott II has credited Shange’s “for colored girls” as an initial inspiration for his debut Broadway production, “Thoughts of a Colored Man.” Spring Date Set for Broadway Revival of ‘For Colored Girls’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The words ring true for the playwright Regina Taylor, perhaps better known as the Emmy-nominated actress in the 1990s television series “I’ll Fly Away,” and, more recently, for her role in “The Unit.” A Playwright?s Fictions Stay Close to Real Life 2011-02-15T23:45:12Z

When asked that question directly, the 56-year-old actor turned playwright turned screenwriter turned filmmaker — whose early, post-college career once included such odd jobs as delivering singing telegrams — demurs. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

His wife Mathilde seems endlessly supportive of his ambitions, a sounding board and helpmate as Lotto achieves renown as a playwright. Love May Be Time’s Fool in Fates and Furies 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

He’s the designer, the playwright, the director, the star. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Since 2012, she’s been director of development at New York’s Signature Theatre, which is best known for its low-cost tickets and playwright retrospectives. Launch of TheatreWork, a casting database for area actors, is delayed

Patric, star of "Sleepers" and "Narc," has a deep connection to the piece: His father was the playwright. Noth, Sutherland, Patric, Cox, Gaffigan lose egos 2011-02-11T13:16:04Z

Broadway is slated to feature at least seven works by Black playwrights this season, a historically large number. Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

That phase culminated in 1976 with the large-scale opera “We Come to the River,” a war-is-hell piece of agitprop set to a finger-wagging text by the left-wing British playwright Edward Bond. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z

The season closes with a new stage adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the vintage Washington Irving ghost tale, by playwright Chloe Moss. Intiman Theatre announces its 2011 season 2010-10-12T18:25:00Z

Ms. Kauffman, who has directed many works by young playwrights, said Mr. Pierce stood out for his lack of “preciousness.” Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z

The groundbreaking filmmaker, playwright and musician whose work ushered in the “blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Eleven Danish playwrights were involved in writing the script, which was reported to delve into the singer's addiction to drugs and alcohol. ArtsBeat: After Father's Objection, Play About Amy Winehouse Is Canceled 2012-11-26T18:53:09Z

Remaining true to its mission “of staging the work of emerging playwrights and new interpretations of classics to inspire diverse audiences” will be a priority, the spokesperson said. Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney to step down 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Then three plays set in Iran or Afghanistan, written by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent, offered her real scope. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Three awards honored playwrights at different stages of their careers. Sheri Fink and Joshua Horwitz Are Among PEN Award Winners 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

So Hamanaka, a playwright and onetime jazz singer who describes herself as a senior, funneled her frustration into art. A Playwright Has a Message: Anti-Asian Hate Isn’t New 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Swedish playwright, theater director and filmmaker, who died in 2007, remains one of the most praised and, to a certain extent, most misunderstood 20th-century artists. Review: ‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman,’ a Misunderstood Artist 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Albee will become only the third playwright to receive the annual award since it was first handed out in 1960. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z

The playwright David Mamet hailed it in The Wall Street Journal as “the best book to come out of Vietnam, and yet the author wasn’t stationed there.” Dr. Ronald Glasser, Bard of the Vietnam War Wounded, Dies at 83 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Male playwrights of new plays wrote 37% of their roles for women. Women in theatre: how the '2:1 problem' breaks down 2012-12-10T19:30:01Z

After sudden bloodshed, Dumas quickly shifts the action to an elegant soiree where we are introduced to almost too many celebrated figures of French history, including the future playwright Pierre Corneille. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The process of turning a successful London playwright into an icon of Englishness, then a universal writer and the very “inventor of the human,” to paraphrase Harold Bloom, took centuries. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

In “Blueberry Toast,” playwright Mary Laws creates a storybook world of domestic sweetness that sends itself up with the first overzealous “Good morning, dear!” 'Blueberry Toast' from Echo Theater Company is a darkly whimsical dish 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

This question has been sparked by a recent piece over at the New Jersey Newsroom about playwright Sarah Ruhl's current show: Passion Play. Noises off: Problems of recognition 2010-05-21T14:58:00Z

The Tonys administration committee aims for a cross-section of professionals on the nominating group, which usually includes actors, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and producers. Gatekeepers of the Tony Awards Prepare Nominations 2010-05-02T22:18:00Z

I don’t want to be in the business of telling playwrights what they should and shouldn’t write, what they can and can’t. Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Gus’s girlfriend, Billy, a playwright who cherishes her own solitude, had begun to see him as immature and emotionally needy; she was about to break things off with him when 9/11 happened. Books of The Times: ?The Lake Shore Limited,? Sue Miller?s Latest Novel 2010-04-22T22:31:00Z

Work by nine female writers and two female composers appear on the most-produced plays list; 11 of the 20 most-produced playwrights are women. This Season’s Most Produced Play: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

And he expressed interest in bringing back older Victory Gardens playwrights to foster “larger intergenerational conversations.” Taking Over Victory Gardens to Make a ‘Theater for All’ 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Restless in Style and Subject Just after the American painter George Bellows died of a ruptured appendix at the age of 42, in 1925, the playwright Sherwood Anderson offered a poignant assessment. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z

Prior’s vision is also the vision of his author and every playwright who understands the theater’s power to lead us into collective awareness. Center Theatre Group's starry 50th: From offending Ronald Reagan to Trump-era provocations 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

There’s much to admire about playwright MacAllister-McDonald’s knack for dialogue and inventive structure, with some simultaneous sequences that suggest David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” gone bipolar. 'The Sexual Life of Savages' at the Beverly Hills Playhouse 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Suitcase The Echo Theater Company presents the U.S. premiere of Polish playwright Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk’s surrealistic fable, performed in English, about a father, his son and the Holocaust. L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

NOT many playwrights can claim that a theater was built for them, let alone one constructed by New York City’s largest nonprofit theater organization, the Roundabout Theater Company. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

The hazards of race and international adoption feel close to the bone whenever Barfield’s characters really say what is on their minds — the playwright plainly knows what she is talking about. International adoption: Not so black and white in Theater J’s ‘The Call’ 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The ambitious Homebound Project teams up actors and playwrights in short new pieces spread over three editions. Fire Up Your Laptop: A Curated Guide to Theater Now Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

She would typically appear onstage before a performance, ring a cowbell and announce La Ma Ma’s dedication “to the playwright and all aspects of the theater.” Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

This is the second play by The Welders, Washington’s valuable new playwrights’ collective. The Welders’ ‘Not Enuf Lifetimes’ explores the perils of trying to do good

“How I Learned” is co-conceived and directed by Todd Kreidler, who helped Wilson shape the material and directed the playwright in the premiere. Review | How August Wilson learned about life and writing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Before that, she dated men, including the actor and playwright Tracy Letts, who is nine years older and to whom she was engaged. Sarah Paulson Opens Up About Acting, Marcia Clark and Dating Older Women 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

I'm going to do the Sundance playwrights' lab to workshop Hansol Jung's "Wild Goose Dreams," where I play a North Korean defector. Sandra Oh weighs in on acting choices, her new play 'Office Hour' and 'Grey's Anatomy' rumors 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The prize includes a $50,000 cash award for the selected playwright and a $100,000 grant for production costs of the play's premiere at a nonprofit theater. Laurents/Hatcher Award created for new playwrights 2010-06-03T14:37:00Z

When Minnie blames Mrs. Gascoyne for hobbling Luther, as if he had no agency, she can sound like she is channeling the playwright’s own wounded outrage. ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ Review: Sons and Wives 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

In other words, Deevy is exactly the kind of playwright that makes Jonathan Bank’s heart beat a little faster. Resurrecting Teresa Deevy?s Lost Irish Voice 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z

Tiny and frail even as a young woman, with large, sad eyes, she was a novelist, journalist, playwright and essayist. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The playwright is making a popular case when he calls for more commitment to the humanities. Anne Fine scores a perfect pen in Follett's book 2010-06-22T16:12:00Z

I think the playwright passed it along to him. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Living in Exile' 2011-01-14T20:30:27Z

At one point, a playwright, Eisa Davis, posed a question: “I just wonder if Michael loved himself as much as we loved him?” ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

A week earlier at the National Theater, I had found myself watching two other exceptionally bleak young playwrights and vaguely thinking, “Oh, they’ll grow out of it.” Theater: In London, Young Playwrights, Including O?Neill 2010-07-30T22:49:00Z

But the playwright told the it would help to bring new audiences to the theatre. Butterworth defends ticket policy 2012-10-26T15:54:30Z

“Sometimes when I’m doing nothing in the play, I’m just looking at it and it takes me back to Calais,” said Mr. Sarrar to the playwrights’ evident relief. The Journey From the Calais Jungle to the London Stage 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The playwright’s provocative new comedy explores what goes on behind the closed doors of three families in a seemingly squeaky-clean multiracial American town. Theater Listings for Jan. 10-16 2014-01-16T18:35:23Z

The playwright folds facts and conjecture into a plodding account of their quasi romance, which began in 1904, as Boston critics were calling O’Neil “the American Sarah Bernhardt.” | 'Nance O?Neil': Lizzie Borden Finds Love (Perhaps) After the Ax 2010-09-20T21:56:00Z

“Well, I don’t want to disappoint anybody,” she said, referring both to the party and to her reputation as a playwright — and a person — who will say anything, no expletives deleted. Leslye Headland?s Play Cycle of 7 Deadly Sins 2010-07-18T02:52:00Z

Still, even with some dramaturgical shortcomings, “Pipeline” reaffirms this playwright’s compelling vision. Review | Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Pipeline’ looks at a troubled young man, and who failed him 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Though the playwright Jesse Eisenberg usually writes about awful people, he’s centering his latest New Group play on a less awful one. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

As a playwright, he is also less cosy than he seems. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

“But any time David Mamet goes to bat, like any great playwright, he becomes a target — whether he is Eugene O’Neill, or Tennessee Williams, or Edward Albee, or David Mamet, he becomes a target.” Delayed Opening for Mamet's 'China Doll' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“It’s important to recognize the gains — playwrights of color doubled over the last 10 years, which is a sign of progress,” said Jonathan Shmidt Chapman, the Theater for Young Audiences executive director. Theaters for Young Audiences Say They Need to Be More Diverse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

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

The play has an angry, lyrical opening, as Lena addresses the audience — or maybe the playwright — directly. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The ghosts this playwright wants you to sense are hovering all around the theater, reminding us of a parasitic human penchant for getting the last word — and profiting from it. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

He is unusual among first-rate playwrights in that his empathy seems largely abstract. Review: ‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Both attributes served him well in his associations with the Royal Shakespeare Company and with the British playwright Tom Stoppard, whose linguistically pyrotechnic work he performed many times. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z

After a playwright and friend found his body in his flat in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighbourhood, police arrived and discovered dozens of bags of heroin. Mixed drugs overdose killed Hoffman 2014-02-28T21:32:24Z

I think what happened to a lot of plays and playwrights is that they got their world premieres and then nobody else wanted to do them. A Tony Awards round table with L.A.-area theater leaders 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton/Guardian It's notoriously difficult to maintain a long career as a playwright. Who'd have a career as a playwright? 2013-01-11T08:05:01Z

He could have rendered this tale a lot more simply, but who wants to fault a playwright for big swings and stylistic daring? In ‘Once Upon a (korean) Time,’ Bedtime Stories to Keep You Up at Night 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

In Greater Clements, a fictional backwater and the locus of a tragic footnote to mining history, the playwright depicts a locality literally wiping itself off the map. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The combustible playwright and screenwriter turns once again to fiction in his fourth novel, set in 1920s Chicago among small-time crooks and aspiring mobsters. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

In New York many have been conceived by gonzo theater groups rather than single playwrights, and they often arrive in offbeat spaces. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

And playwright Oliver Emanuel’s heart-wrenching tale, of two sibling Afghan refugees on a harrowing journey to London, hits with renewed resonance following the United States’ tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier this year. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

This amounted to high praise from a playwright known for his theory of the “alienation effect” in the theater. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The playwright does so in commanding fashion in what may be her best play: “Detroit ’67,” brought to you in fine digital form by Arlington’s Signature Theatre. Review | These 3 new D.C. shows show why online theater is more interesting than ever 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Laughter was abundant on Tuesday at the tribute to Anne Meara, the actress, comedian and playwright, who died in May at 85. Tough, Ribald Anne Meara Is Recalled at Tribute 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In one of the unpublished manuscripts, Williams wrote of playwrights as "those unattractively awkward, embarrassed, graceless, blushing, fidgeting, shuffling, stammering, wretches". Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z

The French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau was his godfather. Rock Brynner, Son of Hollywood Royalty Who Cut His Own Path, Dies at 76 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

In 2015, I went on a road trip around Italy with my friend David, a peripatetic playwright from New York who was spending the spring in a castle in Genoa. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Nunn is one of eight directors, actors and playwrights who will be formally inducted at a gala ceremony at New York's Gershwin Theatre next January. Nunn joins Broadway Hall of Fame 2012-09-27T10:45:10Z

Mr. Shanley has taken the old playwright’s license and put a lot of florid language into the mouths of low-class characters. Review: ‘The Dreamer Examines His Pillow’ Talks of Love, Lust and Lots More 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

The playwright, who also wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Race," will direct the play. Debra Winger making her Broadway debut this winter 2012-06-05T21:04:13Z

Soyinka, the Nobel laureate and playwright, returns with his first novel in nearly 50 years, set in an imaginary Nigeria. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

A film based on Assassin's Creed is currently in the works with Michael Fassbender in the lead, and playwright – yes, playwright – Michael Lesslie working on the screenplay. World of Warcraft: can Duncan Jones turn the video game into movie magic? 2013-01-31T17:10:22Z

For anyone who loves Ibsen’s work, it’s a clever turning of the tables on a great playwright who claimed freedom of the soul and spirit as a theme in play after play. Review | Nora’s back in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2.’ Lucky for us, she’s played by Holly Twyford. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Harris said he was as eager to learn “from everyone here” as he was to mentor the playwrights. Jeremy O. Harris’s Writer’s Residency Under the Tuscan Sun 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dinelaris suggested he write a play — a little something for the annual Summer Shorts festival, where Mr. Dinelaris is a regular as both a director and a playwright. Summer Is the Time for Stretching 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

On typical Tony Awards shows, playwrights are about as prominent as animal trainers and child wranglers. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Transmission” is produced by The Welders, the collective of D.C. playwrights, and it’s being staged as a boutique event for a limited audience of 20 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The revolution will definitely be dramatized 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The power of imagination lay at the very heart of Malcolm's life, as teacher, director and playwright. Malcolm Griffiths obituary 2010-12-02T18:18:00Z

"I find it immensely frustrating when a playwright says proudly, 'This play presents no answers but asks lots of questions'," Owen says. Gary Owen: Bridgend and beyond 2010-04-07T20:45:00Z

He produced other revivals, Off Broadway shows, national tours and summer stock; cultivated new playwrights; and served as the first director of the Center Theater Group of the Los Angeles Music Center. Elliot Martin, Prolific Theater Producer, Dies at 93 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

An award-winning playwright, poet and actress, Orlandersmith doesn’t have a lot of trouble with the living these days. 'Forever,' a harrowing memoir with no Hollywood ending 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Jack Thorne, a playwright whose productions include a lauded stage adaptation of the vampire film “Let the Right One In,” collaborated with Ms. Rowling on the script, and he is credited as the play’s author. J. K. Rowling Says Harry Potter Play Will Open Next Summer 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

One of her merits as a playwright is that she tends to divide people. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

There, at war’s end, she reconnected with an old friend, Terry Anderson, the son of the playwright Maxwell Anderson, who, meeting her, wanted to audition her for a play, asking, Shirley Clarke and Elaine Dundy: The Escape Artists 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The playwright, Mary Kathryn Nagle, is one of their direct descendants on her father’s side, and in “Sovereignty” she is exhuming some family history that is also American history. Fighting for Native Americans, in Court and Onstage 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

This week seven playwrights who came powerfully onto the scene in the decades after Ms. Shange’s debut spoke about her impact and legacy. Seven Flames Kindled by the Focused Fire of Ntozake Shange 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

He's always skittered between multiple works, though, and sometimes envies playwrights who have a more constant focus. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z

Later, a convivial dinner with the playwright in Scarborough, arranged by mutual friends, sealed the deal. Ayckbourn to direct 'Sugar Daddies' at Seattle's ACT in 2013 2012-07-09T23:18:05Z

That makes it, in some ways, definitive by default, part of an archive of preserved performances that will introduce future generations to the playwright’s essential work. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

This is Václav Havel, playwright, polemicist and chief engineer of the velvet revolution that drove the communist rulers from Prague. In praise of ? V?clav Havel's new career 2010-08-03T22:47:00Z

Alexandre Dumas, regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist of all time, initially made his name — and the first of several fortunes — as a playwright. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The towering playwright, who died in 2005, and whose work Mr. Leon has widely produced and directed, told him that “cultural specificity is the best route to universal appeal,” Mr. Leon said. Television: Kenny Leon Directs a New ‘Steel Magnolias’ for Lifetime 2012-09-29T23:29:02Z

He doesn't think of himself as a writer, he says, but a "wroughter: the 'wright' in playwright comes from to wrought rather than to write". A Curious Incident on stage: the National does Mark Haddon's novel 2012-07-25T18:01:00Z

Mr. Linklater, whose earlier work as a playwright includes the more modest “The Vandal,” has built this latest offering from grand architectural blueprints. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The dark comedy, by the British playwright Martin McDonagh, will open on Broadway this spring, two years after the production was canceled by its producer as the coronavirus pandemic forced theaters to close. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen’ Will Open on Broadway This Spring 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Thanks again NYT for no credits other than the director and the playwright. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“This is my mom,” the playwright tells us, protectively. Review: A Family Divide Haunts Heart-Rending ‘Suicide Forest’ 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

I found my way back to being able to balance life as a playwright with working in television, much in the manner of a British playwright who occasionally works in television. The timely new play ‘Vicuña’ is, and isn't, about Donald Trump 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

It earned numerous extensions and landed Ms. Fairey an agent, who sent the script to Paige Evans, director of LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater’s program for emerging playwrights, directors and designers. Ellen Fairey, Playwright 2010-02-17T18:50:00Z

The play went on to be produced in Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Slovenia and Australia, and is due for production in France next summer in a translation by the French playwright Serge Valletti. Bridget O'Connor obituary 2010-10-18T17:36:00Z

A Song For Jenny is based on Nicholson's own account of the tragedy and will be written by playwright Frank McGuinness. Emily Watson to star in 7/7 drama 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The technology was built by the Antenna International in Britain, and Ms. Miller used her networking skills to enlist a range of actors and playwrights to contribute. In ‘Talking Statues,’ Sing London Gives Artwork a Voice 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

“My wife recently read me a Bertolt Brecht quote,” Farrar said, referring to the German playwright and poet who was forced to flee his country during Nazi rule. Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

For the playwright, the gesture was a step in the right direction, in a time crowded with wrong ones. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The magazine conducts an annual survey of theaters to determine which shows, and which playwrights, are most popular. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Is This Season’s Most-Staged Play 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's satire of gender politics is about a noted feminist author with a bad case of writer's block, who is taken hostage by a disillusioned acolyte. The Week Ahead: 'Please Give,' Jewel, Nordic Singers are arts highlights 2010-06-16T23:32:00Z

Structured in part like a theatrical fugue, “Bach at Leipzig“ made a big splash for Moses, who was encouraged to write it by no less than playwright Tom Stoppard. Music rivals, Esperanto and new works on Seattle stages 2013-05-16T19:35:10Z

In the interim, the play received a six-week developmental staging at Steppenwolf Theatre’s First Look festival in 2014, the last year that the Chicago theater offered playwrights fully rehearsed workshops instead of readings. A late night of pizza leads pair to team up on ‘Ironbound,’ an immigrant’s tale 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Not that the playwright stints on the quotidian details. Review: ‘The Children,’ in London, Offers Hints of an Apocalypse 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Angels in America” established that Mr. Kushner is a great playwright. | 'The Intelligent Homosexual?s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures': Debating Dialectics and Dad?s Suicide Plan 2011-05-06T13:00:05Z

Various venues, Thu 24 to 4 Jul, visit festival.org Town, Northampton If ever there was a playwright on a roll, it's DC Moore, who all but disappeared after Alaska premiered at the Royal Court in 2007. This week's new theatre 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Melanie Marnich, a playwright and a veteran of HBO’s “Big Love,” grabbed a bit of shade outside the church to talk about the show and the seventh episode, which she wrote. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z

At 83, South African playwright Athol Fugard remains a vital chronicler of the political, moral and spiritual damage wreaked in his country by apartheid. Athol Fugard builds on his distinguished corpus with 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

She radiates charisma, sass and style as a Brooklyn playwright navigating a rough spot in her creative and romantic life, as she finds her usually high spirits tempered by rejection letters and a bad breakup. Short Attention Span? All These Movies Are Under 90 Minutes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Produced by the Welders, the D.C. playwrights’ collective, “To Tell My Story” teems with clever correlatives to Shakespeare’s tragedy. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

I am a playwright, and for a while, Broadway was receptive.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cabnet, who also staged “The Mistakes Madeline Made” for Naked Angels added, “We often see playwrights who can do one or the other, but rarely the two together.” Elizabeth Meriwether Writes Scripts for Stage and Screen 2010-05-08T02:42:00Z

Pam Gems, a British playwright who, in works like “Piaf” and “Stanley,” explored the temperament of impassioned, embattled artists and politically engaged women, died on Friday in London. Pam Gems, British Playwright, Dies at 85 2011-05-17T05:12:41Z

Round House Theatre thought the question was so ripe for exploration that it hired 10 playwrights to ponder the dramatic consequences. In ‘Homebound,’ 10 playwrights write a Web series as unpredictable as the life we’re living 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

It was written by a group of 11 Danish playwrights and depicts her life and relationship with drugs and alcohol. Danish theater cancels Amy Winehouse play 2012-11-26T11:32:08Z

The publicity campaign is already in high gear for the Broadway debut — as both star and playwright — of TV’s favorite comedy sourpuss, Larry David. Broadway’s Second Season: 10 Shows to Watch For 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Because the short story is written as a monologue, the playwright Naomi Iizuka, a writer too little seen in New York, has an easy enough time adapting it. Review: In ‘Sleep,’ a Wakeful Woman Faces Long, Surreal Nights 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It concerns the working-class playwright Andrea Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine, the eldest of three children she had with different fathers. The Arbor ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

This portrait of the African-American playwright captures Hansberry’s emotional and political power and charts her major influence in theater and beyond. New in Paperback: ‘Looking for Lorraine’ and ‘Evolution’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

We know that the retrograde attitude toward opportunity for female playwrights and directors is replicated for women in many other lines of work, in and out of the arts. Challenging the gender status quo in American theater 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

"I thank Echo for allowing me the time to fully understand my situation and consider this difficult admission," the playwright said. Echo Theater's feud with playwright takes some strange twists 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Hare being Mr. Hare, a British playwright who never leaves his rage at the world’s inequities at home, he locates the divided conscience of a nation within intimate affairs of the heart. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

If the parties included an express right of approval for the playwright, why did they not similarly include an express right of approval for the script? We Asked 7 Lawyers to Untangle the Broadway Fight Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

What better way to ring in America’s birthday than with this delightful 1942 musical biopic covering the life of George M. Cohan, a Broadway legend and beloved playwright, composer, and producer. The best patriotic films on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu to stream July 4 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a clever story of politics and collusion by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour at Live theatre in Newcastle. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-15T14:03:42Z

Last year the company dazzled with “Wife to James Whelan,” a neglected drama by Deevy, who for a time in the 1930s was a favored playwright at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. Theater Review: Teresa Deevy?s ?Temporal Powers? at Mint Theater - Review 2011-08-30T02:01:00Z

Jonson was the cantankerous contemporary of Shakespeare who thrived as a poet and a playwright and an irrepressible troublemaker. Ben Jonson, like Charb of Charlie Hebdo, sought to reduce zealots 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The 43-year-old playwright is a graduate of Princeton University and The Juilliard School, a man able to quote Noam Chomsky and Buffalo Bill from “The Silence of the Lambs” with equal vigor. Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The current revival at A Noise Within, using a smooth and relatively new translation by Irish playwright Conor McPherson that's tinged with Beckett, softens some of the savagery. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Recently while scrolling through Facebook, I came across the lament of a playwright who was distressed that the new play he was writing seemed to require an intermission. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The playwright will also direct this world premiere production at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Theater to See This Season After a Very Long Intermission 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Lucas, who wrote the book for the current Broadway hit "An American in Paris," is a playwright renowned for his adventurousness and emotional honesty. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Many playwrights willingly entrust their words to directors and actors of secondary productions, expecting most professional theaters in America to respect the licensing contracts they signed. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The acclaimed "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman" playwright was 11 years older than the 29-year-old Monroe when the pair began dating. The 6 most heartbreaking Marilyn Monroe moments from Netflix’s “The Unheard Tapes" documentary 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

So the playwright devised a set of completed score cards that can serve as onstage cheat sheets to the finer points of Hollywood gin. James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Lay Their Cards on the Table 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

It also confirms suspicions that Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins’s goal as a playwright is less about creating fully rounded characters than about starting conversations. 'War,' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s New Play 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The story is about nighttime cabbies who aspired to be actors or poets or playwrights. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z

“I didn’t understand a word,” he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1977, but somehow it sparked his interest in becoming a playwright. Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Winner for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Dies at 83 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

He has toured the Continent in the various guises of theater director, opera director, choreographer, performance artist and playwright. Dance Review: A Visit From Europe?s Do-It-All Artist 2011-01-21T23:28:50Z

The awards in 26 categories are voted on by 868 producers, touring-house producers, playwrights, directors, actors, press agents and a few journalists. - The Washington Post

The title change was hardly superficial for the playwright, Simon Stephens. Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

Likewise, the portraits of the Africans she meets are almost uniformly cartoonish, caricatures that don’t help the audience understand why these villagers were so special to the playwright and her father. Theater Review: ?From the Same Cloth? at the Shell Theater 2012-04-10T20:51:07Z

Certainly it’s not unfair to expect more from this prolific, erratic and seriously talented playwright. Review: ‘This Day Forward,’ a Weird Wedding Night and What Comes After 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The playwright is engaged in a multifaceted act of freehand translation. 'Vietgone' is a journey of intersecting lives after the fall of Saigon 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

She was a playwright whose lyrical drama, “Ordo Virtutum” is excerpted in a scene in which the nuns, as they were allowed to do on certain holidays, frolic in silk gowns and jewels. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z

Trelawny of the Wells, an 1898 comedy by playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, is a play of opposites: the tale of a female theatre star and her struggles to adjust to genteel Victorian society. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

With elections looming, playwright Katie Pollock and political writer Paul Daley have compiled a script from speeches made in the Australian parliament. Julia Gillard speeches inspire new verbatim play 2013-06-28T08:55:51Z

But he soon emerged as one of the most-produced playwrights in the country. How an Elvis impersonator-turned-drag queen was born: Playwright Matthew Lopez on 'Georgia McBride' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The playwright David Henry Hwang warned me, amiably, that he might duck some questions. New Flight for a New ‘Butterfly’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

At Chichester, he has been praised for directing new plays, including “Quiz” by the playwright James Graham as well as a hit musicals such as a revamped “South Pacific.” Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Directors for Top Job 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Artists — especially emerging playwrights — should benefit from the new option of a 99-seat theater that is affixed to the remodeled Head space on the fourth floor. Perspective | The Baltimore theater scene’s new projects: Buildings and songs 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

David Ives is a favorite playwright of mine, and at night, I finally made it to his “Venus in Fur” on Broadway. What I Wore: Sean MacPherson, Hotel Proprietor, on ‘What I Wore’ 2012-06-22T18:52:46Z

Mr. Neumann had met Beckett at a museum in East Berlin in 1976, and their ensuing friendship had encouraged the playwright to entrust him and the company with several of his nontheatrical texts. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z

The blame for this play's deficiencies lies strictly with the playwright. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

"She had worked with the playwright himself, on a 1989 production he directed." Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Collaboration of any kind is always a gamble, but it's a craving that stops playwrights from packing it in. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z

But he adds that if he were in the playwrights’ shoes, “I would gripe back, too.” A post-racial America? August Wilson would disagree

After the play won the Pulitzer, the Black Arts poet and playwright Amiri Baraka castigated Fuller as representing “the most backward sector of the black middle class.” Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway. At 80, He’s Arrived. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s not like a piece of art that you finish and there it is,” says Hampton, the playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Dangerous Liaisons,” among many other works. The war that would not end: Race relations take the opera stage 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But that structure was soon scrapped for a more impressionistic tapestry of transformational moments, chosen by the playwrights. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Frustrated, he told a playwright friend, "I don't know whose novel this is; I can't figure out whose story it is." Marlon James' views of a crime in 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

So does she now feel like a student or a playwright? Teen drama 2010-12-22T08:36:06Z

It aims to develop playwrights that reflect the diversity of their neighborhood. A Playwright Has a Message: Anti-Asian Hate Isn’t New 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare is a great playwright and even 400 years ago, he was able to write things which said a lot about the nature of politics and society today. Heavy rock Coriolanus turns up volume 2013-08-21T01:27:33Z

If the political and social landscape looks strange at the moment, remember that it’s often a playwright who shows us how current events have evolved from deeper histories. The 99 Seat Beat: Gay New Orleans, police shootings and 'Wicked Lit' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

And it's true that a lot of playwrights are, quite understandably, very protective of their work. Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z

The playwrights are emerging amid a rise in interest in African culture in the U.S. — including the work of contemporary Nigerian novelists as well as first-generation writers and artists. Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was in St. Petersburg that she saw a Russian adaptation of her work “The Aliens” by the playwright Mikhail Durnenkov. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z

It was when I was making the transition from actor to playwright. Bruce Norris: squirm, you hypocrites! 2013-03-05T21:00:01Z

Comic wellsprings notwithstanding, playwright Anne Washburn’s darker purpose is to explore our desperate need for storytelling — and theater in particular — as a structuring principle at the core of civilization. In 'Mr. Burns,' Sacred Fools mines a classic 'Simpsons' episode for dark comedy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

A bit like doing a show about TS Eliot, playwright and bank clerk, and entirely neglecting to mention that he also wrote poetry. A Celebration of Harold Pinter ? review 2011-08-10T17:45:01Z

In 2004, Mr. Roth appointed Ross Miller, a professor at the University of Connecticut and the nephew of the late playwright Arthur Miller, as his biographer. ArtsBeat: Philip Roth to Cooperate With New Biographer 2012-09-05T18:51:59Z

Of the 22 remaining slots, playwrights for seven of them have already been picked and are in various stages of writing or research. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Somewhat surprisingly for a director so adept at probing hidden feelings, Mr. Gold, who lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, the playwright Amy Herzog, concedes that he is neither emotional nor sentimental. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

He was up on all the new plays and playwrights. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Apparently – according to a number of esteemed playwrights – these suits possess peculiarly destructive powers. No sex on stage, please, we're career women 2011-02-28T14:12:36Z

“She is a playwright who continues to be produced.” ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Is Trailed by Questions of Feminism and Legacy 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ira Lewis, an actor turned playwright whose comedies, often with star-studded casts, skewered the neuroses and pretensions of writers and artists, died on April 4 in Edison, N.J. Ira Lewis, Actor and Playwright, Dies at 82 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Last summer, for instance, playwright Jeremy O. Harris , a student at the Yale School of Drama, was invited to work here on his scathing satire, “Slave Play.” Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Some of the playwrights who signed on early have picked subjects or even submitted early drafts, according to Seema Sueko, Arena’s newly installed deputy artistic director. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Shepard was also an author, director and playwright. 'Black Hawk Down' Actor Sam Shepard Dies at 75 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Although the lovers struggle to arrange a meeting, the knowledge that they’re based on the playwright’s parents lends an air of inevitability to their romance. Review | Ken Ludwig’s ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is an affecting love letter to unlikely romance 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

To test whether the idea of supporting parents could work in the nonprofit sector, the Playwrights Realm, an Off Broadway company devoted to early-career playwrights, created a pilot program called the Radical Parent-Inclusion Project. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

We've co-commissioned six playwrights so far this calendar year, and committed to producing all six plays, extending the ethos of collaboration to playwrights. Team dreams: how can theatremakers collaborate? 2011-04-06T14:19:18Z

Scotland has a strong pantomime tradition, but it also produces some terrific plays for children through the work of companies such as Tag, Visible Fictions and Catherine Wheels, and playwrights such as David Greig. This week's new theatre 2010-12-18T00:07:48Z

“She is a genre in and of herself,” said the playwright James Ijames, who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in drama for “Fat Ham.” Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Chapters on playwrights, acting, actors, producers, directors and critics contain Coward’s assessments across the decades. Review | ‘Noël Coward On (and In) Theatre’ reveals the playwright’s nimble way with words 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The unpublished script shows the playwright grappling with a question that feels nearly as pressing in 2020 as it did in 1959 or 1901: what to do when white supremacist violence threatens black lives. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Henry, who lives in a squalid Upper East Side apartment, is a part-time teacher, failed actor, would-be playwright, and frequent escorter of elderly, wealthy matrons — the better to cadge free dinners and entertainment. Interview: Kevin Kline connects to the spirit of 'The Extra Man' 2010-08-05T20:49:00Z

The playwright dedicated that one to her own father, who died when she was in college. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

A few of the playwrights the Signature championed in its early years were established and revered: notably Edward Albee and Arthur Miller. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The era of online performing arts has added a remarkably democratic element by allowing high-caliber casts to pop up in everything from revisited classics to fresh-from-the-oven efforts by young playwrights. Theater Streams See Stars Pop Up in Unexpected Places 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

In 2015, prominent playwrights separately expressed frustration after Manhattan Theater Club scheduled a season in which seven of eight plays were written by men. Manhattan Theater Club Announces Two New Plays by Women 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The movie, written by the playwright Gregory Burke, favors narrative devices like foreshadowing and doubling over the usual blabbity blab, an approach that dovetails with Mr. Demange’s talent for elegantly deployed action. Review: In ‘ ’71,’ Young, Green and Behind Enemy Lines 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“No one is going to mythologize my life,” the playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins said in 1984 to a group of film students at Howard University. A Writer’s One-Act Plays Debut, Continuing Her Resurrection 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

I have no problem with his trying as a playwright to get inside Callas’s head. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z

The bride is the granddaughter of Norman Mailer, the author and playwright, and Adele Morales Mailer, the abstract artist. Isabella Moschen, William Storey 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

But the acrimony of the debates sometimes is too much for the playwright himself. Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America

But when Mr. Emmerich messed with Shakespeare, that’s where the trust drew the line – right through the name of the playwright it is set up to protect. ArtsBeat Blog: Shakespeare Trust Hides Shakespeare's Name to Protest Shakespeare Film 2011-10-25T14:11:19Z

On Sunday’s edition of the Fox News show “Life, Liberty & Levin,” David Mamet, the playwright turned Trumpite culture warrior, made an incendiary comment. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

As part of a citywide sesquicentennial celebration of the playwright and author Luigi Pirandello’s birth, Film Forum is showing screen adaptations of his work. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

One also senses that in Joe, playwright Samuel D. Hunter is portraying an all too common American trait: a failure to remember the past. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

A little bit of this goes a long way, and the playwright is perhaps too faithful to his precedents, belaboring the living-room brutality in much the same way Letts does in "August." 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Yamamoto, an acclaimed young Japanese playwright and director, was struggling with life in Tokyo, finding the vast metropolis a lonely place. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

While those playwrights attempted a new muscular style, the Amoralists can seem, at least in the context of downtown, refreshingly retro. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z

The playwright stays one step ahead of theatergoers — not to trick them, but to hold out for deeper truth. Astute 'Barcelona' at the Geffen Playhouse leaves audiences guessing 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

The playwright had promised to leave the stage door open in case she needed to flee. Edith Fellows, a 1930s Child Star Trailed by Dickensian Woes, Dies at 88 2011-07-03T00:58:59Z

Among its four Academy Awards, the film won playwright Uhry an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Jones, Redgrave to co-star in 'Driving Miss Daisy' 2010-06-29T20:06:00Z

Yet, because of the concept’s ingenious underpinnings and the cunning abandon with which the playwright throws himself at the challenge, “Soft Power” provides just enough satisfaction for the two hours you spend with it. Review | Ever wondered how China sees America? ‘Soft Power’ offers amusing ideas. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

In the late 1970s, Rudy Venz, a playwright and director at a Los Angeles community theatre, wrote a play based on her life called Dreams Deferred, in which Fellows played herself. Edith Fellows obituary 2011-07-07T17:11:50Z

I am still beckoned by playwrights who in their hearts are poets. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The playwright, Harrison David Rivers, is more attuned to how individual energies play off each other in the moment, in the shifts of postures and mood. ‘The Bandaged Place’ Review: A Dance With His Devils 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

But one major Off Broadway theater company is changing that, aiming to offer a model for compensation after years of national debate about ways to help often struggling playwrights. Offering Playwrights a Better Deal 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

In 1946, she appeared on Broadway with Davis, who also became a director and playwright, in "Jeb," about a black soldier back from World War Two who confronts the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Stage, screen actress Ruby Dee dies at 91: family 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The playwright was nothing if not “at home at the zoo.” Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The playwright Arthur Miller, who had been lifelong friends with Kazan, never spoke to him again. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Results: So I'm left to wonder if all that left-brain material rather intimidates the normal run of playwrights and they try and write around it rather than fully engage with its complexities. Why does theatre plus science equal poor plays? 2010-07-26T11:20:00Z

In this visceral show, the playwright Heidi Schreck attempts to recreate a speech she delivered in American Legion halls as a teen. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Being a strong working mother has informed much of Callaghan's work and her brand of feminism, which is focused on expanding opportunity for female playwrights through appealing to the industry gatekeepers: artistic directors. Sheila Callaghan plays with gender identity in 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. London said in an interview that what’s needed are both strong artistic directors and playwrights who are nurtured by theaters. 2010-01-13T23:35:00Z

Now their DNA has been recoded by the experimental playwright Julia Jarcho, and there isn’t even the tiniest mote of sunshine in their makeup. Review: ‘Every Angel Is Brutal’ Adds Kitsch to a ’70s Show 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Great Britain is "written with real verve" by playwright Richard Bean and is "blessedly funny", according to The Guardian's four-star review. Warm reception for hacking play 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

A new creative team was put in place, including Paulus and playwright James Graham, who has reworked the book for the musical. Harvey Weinstein sets April opening for Broadway 'Finding Neverland' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

To the playwright Sharr White's credit, he's got all that in there. | Laurie Metcalf 2013-01-24T16:00:39Z

Albert Boadella, a leading Spanish playwright and theater director, said he found Mr. Ollé to be at his best adapting works like those of Wagner, rather than operas with a more “intimate” libretto. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The privilege of seeing Pacino portray the aging American playwright in a Demerol haze while pawing shirtless male hustlers as reviewers crucify him for his latest flop doesn't come cheap. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

We do not talk of Tolstoy or Balzac or Hawthorne as “historical novelists” any more than we think of Shakespeare as a historical playwright. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Of course, holding that idea in my mind I could start with William Shakespeare, and then go down the line of playwrights I’m drawn to. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

For another installation, the sound designer Justin Ellington and the playwright Christina Anderson are creating a series of what they call “sound baths” for the venue’s biggest stage, experimenting with aural frequencies and chakra points. With Healing in Mind, Stage Collaborators Take a Dip Together 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

That may be in part because the play began with real people, and not with the playwright but with the director, Anne Kauffman. Theater: ?Maple and Vine,? a ?50s Flashback 2011-11-27T04:47:17Z

“I was so glad that a playwright was adapting my play, rather than a scholar fluent in English and in Russian,” she said. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z

It’s impossible to imagine anyone but a playwright of color being able to get away with this, which may have been one of Jacobs-Jenkins’s points. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

He had been working on a new musical with “Venus in Fur” playwright David Ives, who called his collaborator a genius. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Local playwright Caitlin Gilman taps into fiction’s increasingly pervasive dystopia trend with her adaptation of “Life is a Dream,” the Spanish Golden Age play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Staying mostly faithful to the reality of ‘Life is a Dream’ 2014-04-23T00:44:37Z

Playwrights Horizons, which stages six or seven productions a year, describes itself as a “writer’s theater,” with an emphasis on contemporary American work and relationships with many of the nation’s leading playwrights. After 35 Years at Playwrights Horizons, He’s Ready to Seek New Ones 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

He went outside the law school to find an adviser, William Alfred, a Harvard English literature professor who was also a poet and playwright. John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Though Balogun is the only theater artist on the official COP26 schedule, he is certainly not the first playwright to grapple with climate themes. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

She was the granddaughter of the playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of “The School for Scandal,” a title that would come to seem all too apt. Fighting for Her Dignity, and Her Children, at the Cost of Her Reputation 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The voices of the playwright and songwriter coalesce harmoniously; they seem to be in conversation with each other, rather than having tried to force preexisting music to propel a newly made narrative. Review | With Dylan songbook, ‘Girl From North Country’ is a triumph 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

South Coast Repertory’s generosity to new playwrights has a fairy godmother-like charm. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The playwrights were industrious and wanted to get on with the business of writing. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z

No American playwright storms the line between speech and music as insistently as Wilson, whose 10-play cycle about 20th-century Black life sometimes seems like a single great oratorio in disguise. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

If the premiere of “Picture a Day Like This,” written with the playwright Martin Crimp, is highly anticipated, that is because anticipation has long accompanied new works by Benjamin, 63. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

His collaborator was his difficult close friend, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, then living in Santa Monica in a very bad mood. Eisler's 'Hollywood Songbook' comes home, bad mood and all 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The playwright Mr. Bock makes good on the presumptuous promise of his title, with a comprehensive micro-macro look at one middle-aged gay man’s existence, in which even nonexistence becomes a coup de théâtre. The Best Theater of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

You can feel the earth shifting — in the theater, at least — for a new generation of African American playwrights. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

If any American playwright has lived a double life, it’s Shawn. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

In many pieces Cunningham is like his contemporaries or Harold Pinter, two of the playwrights who helped transform spoken drama as part of the Theater of the Absurd. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z

The new adaptation of the novel is written by Helen Edmundson, the British playwright whose other stage adaptations include "Coram Boy" and "War and Peace." Keira Knightley set for Broadway debut in 'Therese Raquin' in 2015 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

But in the next decades, thanks in part to the continued progress of feminism and liberation, playwrights were able to put formerly taboo subjects center stage without having to sensationalize them. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

“The Height of the Storm,” by the French playwright Florian Zeller, is headed for Broadway, the Manhattan Theater Club announced Wednesday. ‘The Height of the Storm’ Is Heading to Broadway 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

In late January 1948, Tennessee Williams arrived for the first time in Rome, a city that the playwright, then 37, would quickly call “the capitol of my heart.” The Roman Seasons of Tennessee Williams 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a more daring work: a meta show about a queer Black playwright writing a show about a queer Black playwright that opened Off Broadway in 2019 and won the Pulitzer Prize. In Washington, a Princess Party and a Carnival of Self-Loathing 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

In a way, the playwright has accomplished something impressive. | 'The Vigil or the Guided Cradle': Crystal Skillman on the Art of Torture 2010-04-30T23:37:00Z

And, nationally, there is a plethora of notable Hispanic playwrights, actors and directors creating theater. eSe Teatro stages Spanglish 'Electricidad' 2011-05-19T20:00:13Z

He is also a playwright, and the siblings help each other with their work. Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z

Potts smiled apologetically and began to discuss drama in ancient Rome and the works of playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Why is a zany comedy troupe performing ancient Roman theater? The story behind the Troubies' 'Haunted House' 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The journalist helpfully added that this was because The Real Thing dramatises Stoppard's relationship with Felicity Kendal, who played the mistress of the fictional playwright in the London premiere. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z

Before the season’s official opening, LCT3 is hosting an engagement of Young Jean Lee’s “We’re Gonna Die,” an autobiographical rock concert featuring the playwright and the band Future Wife, from Aug. 5 to 17. ArtsBeat: New Play by Pulitzer Winner To Be Part of LCT3 Season 2013-07-10T18:58:30Z

Othello: Some other references in the plays don’t depict drug use but still raise interesting questions about the playwright’s specialized knowledge. Shakespeare on drugs: The secret narcotic history of the world’s greatest playwright 2014-04-23T15:15:00Z

But local playwright Bartlett shrewdly lightens his material with touches that are funny yet revelatory of theme and character. Review | ‘Swimming With Whales’ explores deep feelings at 1st Stage 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

This sorcerer emerges, more than ever, as the presiding intelligence of the reality set before us — playwright, director and star — who bends all to his will with an insouciant wave of the hand. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Critics and theater people regularly sigh about how the lure of riches hurts the growth of playwrights and contemporary drama. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z

Still, it is rare for a playwright to dream up a world and then have the opportunity to experience it. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z

That version was about as ideal an introduction to New York as a young playwright like Mr. McDonagh, then still in his 20s, could wish. Review: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’: Oh Gosh, I’ve Turned Into My Mother 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

For the American premiere of “The Low Road,” a satire of unbounded self-interest and pitiless capitalism, the playwright Bruce Norris realized he needed to change the last name of his scurrilous 18th-century protagonist, Jim Trumpett. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

The weight of history is not on the side of female playwrights: the canon is overwhelmingly male. Exit the women, stage left 2012-12-10T19:30:42Z

Smith, originally a playwright, said the idea for the show really jelled in her mind in 2015, during a visit to the museum, when she stood in the bedroom of Dickinson’s sister, Lavinia. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Fans of the playwright will know not to expect a laugh a minute. Matthew Fox makes British theatre debut in Neil LaBute play 2010-11-22T16:11:00Z

For one thing, it’s a new play by a little-known playwright and features no Broadway stars. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Along the way, there are encounters the playwright dramatizes with the likes of Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass and others. 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 said the play includes some language from Sultan’s book, and some anecdotes gleaned from interviews with Sultan’s widow, Kelly, but that most of the dialogue was invented by the playwright. Nathan Lane to Return to Broadway This Winter in ‘Pictures From Home’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

This gleefully twisted tale of the secret lives of nuns — in which the playwright doubles as leading lady — is Mr. Busch’s freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades. | 'The Divine Sister': No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun 2010-09-23T02:03:00Z

Beginning in 1892, when he was a critic and fledgling playwright, it lasted for 30 years. The Drama of Letters, Swirling With Suspense 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a wide body of work that’s only beginning to see the light of day. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The play — set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1904 when “slavery is still a living memory” — isn’t the playwright’s best, reports McNulty. Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Jennifer Pollono, the playwright’s wife and a regular performer in his plays, provides invaluable assistance as Hannah, a hardy Irish Catholic housekeeper who works for Walter but whose heart and loyalty still belong to James. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Deathtrap Ira Levin's hit thriller about a Broadway playwright who hatches a murderous scheme. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 10-17: '1984' and more 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Athena Cats New Works Festival Staged readings of 10-minute plays written and directed by female playwrights. L.A. theater openings, April 2-9: 'The Encounter,' 'Into the Woods' and more 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

“As a playwright, I find live cinema, digital-only and hybrid digital performance to be a thrilling space for exploration and innovation,” Svich said. As Venues Reopen, Will Streamed Theater Still Have a Place? 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

THEATER: A few blocks from Benaroya, ACT Theatre is celebrating Harold Pinter -- one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century. Weekend preview: 3 ways to impress your date 2012-07-26T21:00:05Z

Writing scenes in which Lolita talks to the receptionist about decolonization made the playwright feel horrible. Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

He often captured the playwright Samuel Beckett, a close friend in Paris. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z

A well-known author begins to tease the young playwright, mocking his humble origins. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

In 2014, Itamar Moses, a playwright whose parents were from Israel, signed on as the “Band’s Visit” book writer, and David Yazbek, a songwriter whose father was from Lebanon, as its composer. How Orin Wolf Orchestrated a Tony Coup With ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Writer-performer Michael Shaw Fisher portrays the playwright in this solo musical. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

At the center of the orderly disorder was Mr. Willimon, a rising star of a playwright best known for “Farragut North,” which George Clooney is making into a movie. A Theater Is Conjured, Then Leaves Only Memory 2011-06-06T23:01:50Z

A new theater at Lincoln Center will feature work by emerging playwrights and will charge just $20 for every ticket. Lincoln Center Theater to Open Claire Tow Theater for LCT3 2012-05-14T19:22:27Z

Mr. MacIvor, a well-known Canadian playwright, was brought in to write the libretto; the process proved difficult. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Its predominantly African-American Hill District was the forcing ground of the playwright August Wilson, who paid such tender and respectful attention to lives there. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Those basics are often enough, says Clay McLeod Chapman, a playwright and host of a lecture series called Fear Mongers. Phantom Creep Theater, Lovecraft Festival and Other Horror Events 2012-07-12T21:31:25Z

Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. The Revolution Will Be Handheld 2012-07-05T14:02:00Z

Can there be a more inexhaustible topic for great playwrights? Denzel Washington stars in 'Fences' on Broadway 2010-04-27T01:16:00Z

Only Judy Garland is denied that glimmer of hope, but then real life is often less kind than playwrights are. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z

The research, which drew on detailed surveys completed by 26 English theatres, was undertaken by playwright Fin Kennedy and Helen Campbell Pickford, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. Arts cuts prompt 'shrivelling' theatre industry, report says 2013-02-22T12:21:17Z

He and Ms. Huston talked off camera about the playwright Tom Stoppard, then shot a scene in which Mr. Azenberg was more ruthless than he actually is. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z

“The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” directed by Lee Daniels from a script by the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, follows the standard template, with a few new elements added to the mix. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

This is the second time in four years that a playwright with ties to the Steppenwolf has won the Pulitzer. Norris wins Pulitzer for 'Clybourne Park' 2011-04-18T19:09:00Z

There is even less hesitation when it’s a new piece by Caryl Churchill, who some argue is the greatest living playwright. Theater to Stream: Pride Goes Online 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” decreed in July that talkbacks within two hours of a performance of his work were forbidden. The theater talkback: Why they're popular, and why playwrights aren't always pleased 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The writer and director Stephen Belber is best known as a playwright, which explains many of the film’s strengths and weaknesses. ‘What We Do Next’ Review: A Political Morality Play 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The playwright’s conversations with the dead, however, many of whom begin their scenes unaware or in denial of their demise, is the show’s most compelling motif. Review: In ‘Plays for the Plague Year,’ the Soundtrack of Our Lives 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Still, approaching a story about black lives, let alone black-on-black violence, is tricky for a white playwright. In the Berkshires, a Powerful Play and a Classic Musical About Prejudice 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

The playwright Sam Marks has devised a fuller account of those debauched hours in “Brack’s Last Bachelor Party,” at 59E59 Theaters. Theater Review | 'Brack?s Last Bachelor Party': Drunken Rages, Bad Deeds: Hedda Won?t Be Happy 2010-03-04T23:02:00Z

Why is God so particularly interested in Carolyn’s fate, especially if the playwright isn’t even interested in bringing her onstage? | 'Go Back to Where You Are': From Amphitheater Bit Player to God?s Errand Boy 2011-04-13T02:01:25Z

The playwright Sam Shepard is given screen credit as the writer. L. M. Kit Carson, Actor and Writer, Dies at 73 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

This lively debut, by the young British playwright Sam Steiner, enjoyed modest success on the independent circuit a few years ago. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

A sensation when it was first produced in Europe, it established the playwright, somewhat misleadingly, as a proto-feminist and a smasher of social shibboleths. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z

The Blade of Jealousy Staged reading of Henry Ong’s modern-day adaptation of 17th-century Spanish playwright Tirso De Molina’s romantic farce “Jealous of Herself.” L.A. theater openings, Aug. 28-Sept. 4: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

"It's not a play about The Simpsons," explains American playwright Anne Washburn. Will The Simpsons survive the apocalypse? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

A night of sensual play, manipulation, machinations and tragedy courtesy of two fiery playwrights like Berkoff and Churchill should never leave a room as cool as it does here. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

His dramatis personae, a gaggle of lovesick artists and their admirers, seek to improve their lot by contemplating the lessons of Russia's greatest playwright. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The critic Kenneth Tynan divided playwrights into two categories, “smooth” and “hairy,” and one could probably make a similar distinction among biographers. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Bowling alleys seem a potent setting for drama; a playwright could set a wax-floor update of “The Iceman Cometh” on Lane 11. Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

“What we’ve heard is that people want to find new playwrights, but the reality of wading through the slush pile is insurmountable,” he said. The Black List, Founded in Hollywood, Expands Into Theater 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

As the names of Nichols and Gray shine above West End theatres again, neglected playwrights of the past – living and dead – may see hope of a happier new year. Who'd have a career as a playwright? 2013-01-11T08:05:01Z

The playwright opened it and drew out a note reading: “I have incurable brain cancer. And this production gave me hope.” With ‘Letters From Max’ Onstage, Sarah Ruhl Again Mourns a Poet’s Death 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Now, working with a scenario written by the playwright Matthew Dunster, they pushed themselves to write longer melodic lines, each Pet Shop Boy revising and extending the work of the other. A Ballet Score? Not Such a Stretch for the Pet Shop Boys 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The workplace, where so many of us spend so much time, offers a rich trove of subjects for playwrights eager to move away from the dysfunctional family. In 'My Mañana Comes,' pay cut for restaurant workers turns friends into rivals 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

He was also a playwright, and wrote the story for the 1916 film which was simply entitled Sherlock Holmes. 'Lost' Sherlock film discovered 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamilton was also a playwright and author, though he viewed his work in those fields as a mixed success. William Hamilton, Popular Cartoonist at The New Yorker, Dies in Car Crash 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I was a little disappointed,” said Mr. Broccoli, a playwright and actor based in Providence, R.I. James Franco’s Lawyers Shut Down Play That Uses His Name 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

What We Say On the playwright: “A common thread in many of Mr. Hunter’s plays is the quiet, or not so quiet, desperation running through many Middle American lives.” 5 Shows for Under 5 Hamiltons 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The threads of playwright David Adjmi’s debut memoir, “Lot Six,” are woven tightly. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Its international profile has expanded, and a new generation has graduated from the Young Writers' Programme to the theatre proper – notably an array of talented female playwrights, still scandalously under-represented on British stages. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

"Bowler hats, briefcases and faceless bureaucrats," as playwright Tom Basden suggests. Move over McIntyre: Kafka comics lead a standup revolution 2010-11-22T16:38:00Z

The playwright Mr. Eno recalled that on the day Ms. Engel brought in her pies, “someone in the cast was out, so she brought in a smaller pie for that person, the next day.” Georgia Engel, a ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Sidekick, Takes a Star Turn 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Budding playwrights will want to attend the sessions on writing and pitching, while younger writers may benefit from the live film-making session. Events picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z

It’s the kind of thing only a playwright would say. | 'Lidless': ?Lidless,? a Guant?namo Play - Review 2011-10-07T00:28:35Z

Mr. Nicola said that the company’s three much-talked about new shows were all the result of its commitment to continuing relationships that require directors as well as playwrights to stretch. New York Theater Workshop Rides a Wave With Care 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

He quotes the Roman playwright Terence: “I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.” What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The playwright and director worked together when “Riverside” first opened at The Atlantic Theater Company in 2014, and then moved to Second Stage Theater the following year. More Than 60 Plays and Musicals to Take In This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Rules of Seconds” is the inaugural offering of the Temblors, a new Latino Theatre Company collective of seven Los Angeles-based playwrights. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The company soon became a national force and enjoyed huge success under the leadership of playwright . A beginner's guide to culture in Hull 2013-11-20T16:20:25Z

The show selection process begins a few months before the actual event with a call for entries from playwrights and independent theater companies from all over the world. In Transit Blog: At Mumbai Theater Festival, Concision Is the Key 2011-09-27T10:01:01Z

We are well into a second month of the WVTF, and the parade of premieres by female playwrights is emphatically making its point: Gender parity is possible. Women’s Voices: Getting it done, at least for now 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Think of “Consent” as the thematically comparable distaff equivalent from a playwright, Ms. Raine, whose best-known work, “Tribes,” has been produced worldwide. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The poet and playwright Tony Harrison will write a new version of the medieval mystery plays to be performed in August. Shakespeare's Globe puts King James Bible centre stage for anniversary 2011-02-10T20:12:41Z

The reporter, who in initiating us into the war zone seems to be a stand-in for the playwright, recites a lengthy monologue that combines the prosaic and the poetic. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

As a playwright I’d written a play about women in war and that was kind of the premise of the play. The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira on Michonne and Planning for Zombies 2013-10-14T16:22:17Z

They also include perceptive portraits of her colleagues, lovers and friends, who in these early days included Mike Gold, a prominent American communist, and the playwright Eugene O’Neill. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Some playwrights contend that they’re particularly vulnerable to criticism for their use of profanity. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. White’s take has the pair repeatedly denying any physical relationship beyond a stolen kiss in Pittsburgh, an event which the playwright says he made up. Personal Loyalty. Political Whispers. And Edie Falco. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

The new version is by British playwright Helen Edmundson, who previously adapted the Tolstoy novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace for the stage. Knightley to make Broadway debut 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The situation is dire for playwrights who happen to be alive. Review: In ‘Quiet, Comfort,’ a Mattress Becomes the Audience’s Magic Carpet 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the playwright extracts wisdom from experiences she had growing up, such as seeing her mother possessed by a spirit. How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

The playwright called this slender 1959 piece “rather ragged,” but he also said no when Ingmar Bergman wanted to stage the play, which Beckett wrote for only voices and sound effects. Beckett’s ‘Embers,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

After ditching the ballet, she set her heart on becoming a playwright and went on to study English and philosophy at Barnard College in New York. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The blood flows, though from the kind of wound that — unusual in the work of this playwright — could easily be handled with a home First Aid kit. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

These playwrights have been away from the theater for a while now, so a lot of that desire is personal. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The playwrights’ good intentions notwithstanding, the topic of recovery brings some specific dramatic challenges. Addiction Is the Stuff of High Drama. In These Plays, So Is Sobriety. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Others, like the playwright Kristoffer Diaz, dryly alluded to the company’s stated mission of producing work “as broad and diverse as New York itself.” Manhattan Theater Club Faces Diversity Issue 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Vogel, who has a decades-long record of championing young playwrights, is less willing to absolve Asch for failing to stand up, in middle age, for a play he wrote at 26. For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In such cases, a playwright must direct our attention to the points of freedom and choice. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The theater was part of the Little Theatre Movement of the early 20th century, when small non-Equity playhouses featured experimental and innovative productions and provided an outlet for aspiring playwrights. Spending a city weekend in Fells Point, Baltimore 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Stupid F---ing Bird” was his modernist take on Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” and one of several he has remodeled out of the Russian playwright’s canon. 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

Feiffer’s new play, “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard,” at the Atlantic, is about an actress whose a father is a famous playwright. The Burden of a Famous Artist Parent 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

On a recent sunny day in San Francisco, I visited this hotel, looking for traces of the playwright Eugene O’Neill. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

As a Norwegian modernist, Munch was inevitably bracketed with Norway's great 19th-century playwright Henrik Ibsen, for whose work he felt an empathy. Stage direction: why don't more visual artists do theatre? 2012-07-17T15:01:13Z

And the Swiss playwright Lukas Barfüss’s unsettling and surreal version of the closing scene, where the erotic carousel comes full circle, is similarly disorienting and cryptic. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Sheila is a playwright in her late twenties who spends a lot of time not working on the play she has been commissioned to write. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

It's even believed that perhaps at the fringes of these circles was the great comic playwright Molière. Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

They pretended to be assistants in the office of David Mamet, the notoriously Hollywood-averse playwright: arranging each other appointments with agents, casting directors and producers, drawing on their experience selling health-club memberships. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

“If you want proof of how brilliant he is, just take the two segments in ‘Vinyl’ and put them together like a movie by themselves,” says actor and playwright Eric Bogosian. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Dramatic’s adaptation, by the playwright Christopher Sergel, has long been a staple at schools and community theaters around the country. Harper Lee Estate Told to Pay $2.5 Million in Dispute Over ‘Mockingbird’ Plays 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

That alchemy occurs in "little world," a whimsical one-act at Seattle University's Lee Theater, devised by playwright Ki Gottberg and stage designer Carol Wolfe Clay. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

Mr. Katz said that about a dozen playwrights would be chosen to start. Audible Creates $5 Million Fund for Emerging Playwrights 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Also in Bristol, at the Alma Tavern, is Word: Play, six new plays on the theme of division from emerging playwrights. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-22T16:46:17Z

As this tip-off to a slam-dunk New York debut makes clear, the playwright Candrice Jones excels equally in sly, sitcom humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk. Review: ‘Flex’ Hits the Right Rhythms on the Court and Off 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

Bob Hoskins was also a playwright who wrote under the name Robert Williams. Obituary: Bob Hoskins 2014-04-30T13:56:01Z

Barbara Brecht-Schall, a daughter of the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the guardian of his literary legacy, died on Monday in Berlin. Barbara Brecht-Schall, Guardian of Father’s Plays, Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

It is well known in the theater world that female playwrights are rarely produced on Broadway, and that female directors are doing only slightly better. Off Broadway, Women Lag in Crafts Jobs 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Compared with their stateside counterparts, British playwrights are far more willing to engage in the public arena, dramatizing headline news, commenting on political issues and public figures. The Queen Is Dead in King Charles III 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Then again, Kane, an English playwright who hanged herself in 1999 while hospitalized after a suicide attempt, may be all the company you need. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

You decided early in your career not to be typed as an Irish American playwright, so you avoided topics such as your own home life with an Irish-immigrant father and uncles. John Patrick Shanley gets his Irish up with 'Outside Mullingar' 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

And I loved the way Emily undercuts him — and the playwright herself — by then saying, “Doesn’t it sound terrible?” Review: In ‘Today Is My Birthday,’ Love Is a Butt Dial 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

At the age of 75, the playwright explains why he still wants to "scare myself". Ayckbourn on keeping theatre alive 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Leaving Home Canadian playwright David French’s classic drama about a working-class family in 1950s Toronto. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Adapted by playwright Tom Stoppard, Wright's "Anna Karenina" takes place mostly in a theater setting and sees the title character more high-strung and less sympathetic than in previous incarnations. After Garbo, Leigh, no defining "Anna Karenina": Knightley 2012-11-16T14:55:55Z

Directed by Richard Eyre, the music for "Stephen Ward" was composed by Lloyd Webber, who was reunited with lyricist Don Black and playwright Christopher Hampton - the team behind "Sunset Boulevard". Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 2013-09-30T19:53:03Z

His circle, made up of painters, writers and musicians, included the playwright William Inge and the composers David Diamond, Aaron Copland and William Flanagan, who became his lover. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The playwright himself is in the pulpit, telling colorful and often funny tales about coming of age in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Review | How August Wilson learned about life and writing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Under the tenacious stewardship of its founding artistic director, James Houghton, this troupe has reintroduced New Yorkers to playwrights who threatened to recede into the shadows. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

The bride, 30, is a screenwriter and playwright. Amanda Glassman, Claudio Emma 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy” takes the events of the crisis as its starting point, before delving back into the history of the family who founded the bank. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The playwright is the recipient of this year’s Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and her latest work, “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage,” will make its debut at Lincoln Center Theater in March. New Sarah Ruhl Play to Premiere at Lincoln Center 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

My sister’s absence became even more pronounced for me when the poet, playwright, and author Ntozake Shange died on October 27th. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

“I’VE never understood why slide shows were supposed to be this terrible thing to be put through,” said the playwright Jordan Harrison, recalling the prevideo age. Theater: ?Maple and Vine,? a ?50s Flashback 2011-11-27T04:47:17Z

Back in the day, Queen Elizabeth I herself recognized that the playwright’s scripts often were thinly veiled depictions of the current political scene in Britain and even of herself. Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood gets the jitters on opening nights, and it was no different earlier this month when she made her Broadway debut with “The Children.” Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

I’m sure the young guys were saying, “He’s Neil Simon, he just is a guy who wrote for the Elizabethan age… We’re young, edgy playwrights.” “It’s like if ‘When Harry Met Sally’ ended with everybody getting hit by a truck”: Inside the “Year of Lear” and the terrorist plot that changed Shakespeare 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

“That depends. Again, where are the contemporary playwrights?” Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the playwright described his critics as "blinder than a bagful of moles in a cellar". Folly of banning Moonfleece 2010-03-30T15:20:00Z

That list of playwrights goes a long way toward describing this Off Broadway theater’s success at securing such established talent. Classic Stage Company, Downtown Celebrity Magnet 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

However predictable their arcs, these characters are far more fascinating than the usual lifeboat crew, and Mr. Dawkins, a Chicago playwright making his New York debut, deserves credit for ushering them to the stage. Review: In ‘Charm,’ Challenges Emily Post Never Dreamed Of 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Kim Rosenstock, a playwright and writer for the TV series “New Girl,” will write the book; Fox Stage Productions and Aged in Wood Productions will produce. Cyndi Lauper Is to Write the Music for the Broadway-Bound ‘Working Girl’ 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

But is the Emerald City also earning a rep as a hub for gifted playwrights and compelling new plays? Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z

Kaufman, who is also a playwright, was a contributor to the omnibus stage production "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" that has been performed around the country. For Broadway's Audra McDonald and others, same-sex marriage ruling is a 'no-brainer' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

He first recruited Andrew Miller, an English professor and nephew of playwright Arthur Miller, but became so unhappy with what he believed was Miller’s narrow scope that the two had a falling out. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Those who feel the treatment is disrespectful of the great playwright's work may take solace from Shakespeare himself: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Monroe owned the Thunderbird for six years and was photographed driving it in 1956 with her then-husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe’s Golden Globe Fetches $250,000 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Of course no play by Mr. Kushner — perhaps the most intellectually far-reaching of all major mainstream American playwrights — is going to be only a love story or a family drama. | 'The Intelligent Homosexual?s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures': Debating Dialectics and Dad?s Suicide Plan 2011-05-06T13:00:05Z

Here are a dozen playwrights whose most acclaimed work arrived in the quarter-century before “Angels in America,” but who were still productive in the quarter-century after. The Ones We Left Behind 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Aaron Posner is known for reconceiving classic plays — such as Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” — in contemporary and imaginative ways. Now the playwright has remade Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” as “District Merchants,” set in the U.S. Essential Arts & Culture: Activists vs. art galleries, a battle over an alleged Pollock, Hammer gala 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

He's also a playwright: His play "One Slight Hitch," written in 1983, was updated and appeared this summer in Seattle. Lewis Black to rant on politics on Broadway 2012-07-26T18:14:09Z

But the jokes and the digs always seem to emanate impromptu from clever characters, rather than from a careful and clever playwright. Review: In ‘Steve,’ Contemplating Middle Age and Monogamy 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

There is no other modern playwright quite like her. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

She prefers to collaborate with playwrights, who already “work with the musicality of language” even if they aren’t musicians. 'Fun Home' composer Jeanine Tesori hears the music in everyday life 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Among the 21 returning and 19 new productions scheduled to begin performances on Broadway before the end of the year, the seven plays written by Black playwrights have received the most attention. How Surreal! How Radical! How Avant-Garde! How Broadway? 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

He wrote a first draft and showed it to Kazan, who is also a playwright and wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film “Ruby Sparks.” How Paul Dano Came to Adapt a Richard Ford Novel for His Movie “Wildlife” 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kushner, 61, is tall — surely the tallest major American playwright since Arthur Miller — and youthful-looking, and speaks softly but rapidly, as if rushing to keep up with a runaway brain. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

But at that point in his career, Mr. Joseph didn’t completely buy in to the opinion of a playwright known for exerting extreme authorial control. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

When the mononymous musician and playwright Stew was 9 and living in Los Angeles, he first encountered the name James Baldwin. Stew & Heidi take on James Baldwin in 'Notes of a Native Song' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Washington and Davis star in the screen adaptation of African-American playwright August Wilson's "Fences." Oscars so divided: Hollywood still struggles with race 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

It is against this backdrop that new playwright Rashid Razaq is staging his debut production, based on Obama's college days at Columbia, New York. Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z

This is the work in which Mr. Wilson said he discovered his voice as a playwright, and how it soars. Gifts for the Discerning Theater Fan 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

With Macha, a “fearless female nonprofit arts organization” where Lee is resident playwright, Lee said she was able to find a place where she could be herself. How 3 women-led arts organizations in the Seattle area make room for diverse voices 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s in the regional theaters that playwrights like Mr. Durang can extract the full financial value from their plays. Christopher Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Heads to Regional Theaters 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Winners include James Salter, best known for his novella "A Sport and a Pastime," and playwright Naomi Wallace. 9 authors and playwrights receive $150K Yale prize 2013-03-04T16:34:12Z

During the May sit-down interview, a draft for the fourth episode had been due two days before — but the man who started his career as a playwright had nothing. Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Nor does the playwright hesitate to employ a series of adorable woodland critters to decorate the action. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

“What Shakespeare was trying to say here,” he starts, as if the playwright were a buddy of his who couldn’t speak for himself. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

I was a starving playwright in Chicago when I met Scott. Duos of 'Genius': A. Scott Berg and John Logan, Colin Firth and Jude Law, Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rapp, whose “Red Light Winter” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama, is an uncommonly prolific and profuse playwright who wallows shamelessly and happily in excess. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

But there is neither urgency nor bite in the fallout of his decision, which the playwright uses as a jumping-off point for tired topical debates that rarely get off the ground. ‘This Space Between Us’ Review: A Do-Gooder Faces a Chorus of Resistance 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

This 1982 play by Don Evans, the African American playwright, director, actor and teacher closely identified with the Black Arts movement of the 1970s, is a light satire with a few sharp edges. The Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-27T00:06:22Z

The play won both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play – a relatively rare feat for a playwright, and the first best play Tony for a woman. 'Heidi Chronicles' to Return to Broadway in February With Elisabeth Moss 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a clever prank from an emerging playwright who had been reviewing theater himself. The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

This is not the only fast one the playwright pulls on his audience. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Irish playwright’s aesthetic is severe but not monolithic, as is sometimes assumed. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The playwright's preoccupation with loyalty, revenge and murder clearly resonates with the hardened criminals, and helps them produce performances at once powerful and convincing. Theme of captivity dominates Berlin films in 2012 2012-02-13T12:35:51Z

He aspired to be a playwright but majored in chemistry at Queens College. Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75

Mr. Allen wrote the stage version of “Bullets Over Broadway,” a comedy about a playwright who hires a gangster’s girlfriend while trying to raise money for his show. Goodspeed Cancels Woody Allen Musical 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It was conceived with the poet and playwright Tony Harrison , at the National theatre in 1977, for a small company of actors and instrumentalists. Bow Down ? review 2012-05-20T18:22:36Z

Although he claimed, for instance, that he only wanted to honor a playwright’s work, he often meddled with the scripts — his “Ghosts” interpolated Ibsen’s text with some Strindberg. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

I recall meeting the playwright at the Riverside Studios before the shooting and enjoying many laughs with him. Letters: Happy days 2012-11-08T21:00:04Z

If novel writing does not work out for him, he might easily become a world-class playwright. Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z

“He was a playwright in 1929. Movies were barely talking, but he jumped into the new technology. ‘I’m going to Hollywood, this is gonna be great,’” says his son. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Two months later, the playwright Charles Mee tries his hand at adapting three of Euripides’ plays: “Iphigenia at Aulis,” “The Trojan Women,” and “Orestes.” ArtsBeat: Classic Stage Season to Begin With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2014-03-06T21:46:18Z

In response to such a letter, any playwright will argue two things. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

“I watched ‘Seinfeld’ once and cried for four years,” the playwright David Ives admits. Theater Talkback: The Perils of Being Too Funny 2010-07-01T18:01:00Z

Still, the rapid transformation of downtown Brooklyn has caused tensions in the neighborhood, and not everyone is enthusiastic about the arrival of a theater dedicated primarily to the oeuvre of a dead white playwright. Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater 2011-06-24T23:34:25Z

You see, in playwright Viviana Cordero’s telling, Mary Magdalene herself polished the cutlery for Jesus’s last meal, handling the task in her capacity as his companion and wife. ‘Magical Ecuador’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The mission: Five D.C. playwrights are producing their own new works over three years and then turning over the whole operation to five different writers. The Welders’ ‘Not Enuf Lifetimes’ explores the perils of trying to do good

He talks about playwrights with the same enthusiasm that he could about soccer or baseball. Demian Bichir plays it cool in 'Zoot Suit' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

She returns the playwright’s ardor, and also dreams of becoming an actor, then a forbidden goal for a woman. London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“I never wanted to write a roman à clef but it ended up being that because you can’t use all these names,” the playwright said recently. Misery and Megalomania: How David Adjmi Became a Playwright 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Fun is not enough,” said the playwright and director Tina Satter, one of downtown theater’s most meticulous yet reliably entertaining artists. Tina Satter Readies the Stage for ‘Ancient Lives’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Pavel Landovsky, a prominent Czech actor who became a noted dissident, working with the playwright and future Czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel, died on Friday. Pavel Landovsky, Czech Actor and Dissident, Dies at 78 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

This production evolved as acting company, director and playwright worked together for months, improvising, tweaking, redoing scenes and elaborating roles. In ‘Bachman,’ disorderly lives make a messy production 2013-02-07T23:23:34Z

That her death from lymphoma at 55, was recorded on the front page of The Times is an indication not only of her status as a playwright but as a local hero as well. The Wendy Chronicles 2011-08-17T16:52:55Z

Produced by the D.C. playwrights’ collective, the Welders. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The great, mad Swedish playwright August Strindberg lamented that the 19th century theater had become “a Bible in picture for those who cannot read what is written or printed.” At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Thankfully, for a show that both lampoons and honors Chekhov's themes, it doesn't end with the sadness that usually dominates that revered playwright's work. Review: Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia' a zany joy 2013-03-15T03:01:06Z

Mr. Rose had known the playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, since they had both worked in a summer camp in the Catskills, he as a singer on the entertainment staff, she in the dining room. Philip Rose, ?Raisin? and ?Purlie? Producer, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T04:54:29Z

It was just what this fearful playwright needed. Robin Williams, stage actor: What I learned from directing him in a Broadway play 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s considered the first work by a Black playwright produced in this country. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

She studied art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto after leaving the National Theater School of Canada, where she seriously considered becoming a playwright. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The play would not have given Chekhov many worries, but it certainly enhanced Robin's understanding of the playwright's craft. Robin Thornber obituary 2010-12-12T18:08:00Z

“Primal Play” is part of the New Georges theater group’s Jam on Toast festival for young playwrights and directors. ‘Primal Play,’ by Krista Knight, Focuses on a Scientist 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

But the playwright succeeds in holding our attention, much like she did in her finely observed family drama "Durango," by appealing to our respect for unvarnished truth. In 'Aubergine,' Julia Cho turns choked-off emotions into a tale of sustenance 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

I felt an expanded sense of my cultural lineage in learning that there were many different kinds of storytellers, novelists, essayists, playwrights, and poets. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Drawing on the playwright's experiences doing National Service in the 1950s, the play was not a game-changer in itself, but its author went on to write one that certainly was. Game-changing theatre: how John McGrath did it slowly but surely 2012-05-28T11:18:43Z

“I’ve been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and it’s called ‘Square One,’” Sondheim said Wednesday night during an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Sondheim Is Writing a New Musical, and Hopes to Stage It Next Year 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Aspiring to be a playwright, Hal attended private school in Manhattan and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was active in the Penn Players, a still-extant student theater group. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

In March 1962 Time magazine put Williams on its cover, calling him the country’s greatest living playwright. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

The mordant playwright Samuel Beckett studied in Enniskillen, the remote town where this annual festival in honor of his work takes place. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Years later, the playwright said, he was visiting Henderson when the veteran actor, having health troubles, remarked that his career would be slowing down. The Riverside Drive Apartment Where a Broadway Play Was Born 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

Among the five suspects, might the guilty party be a vengeful actress or a hapless playwright, or perhaps the polite-seeming gent who knows a thing or two about potions? Review: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘The Plough and the Stars’ and ‘The Game’s Afoot’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Sophocles wrote his play in the fifth century B.C., during a time of plague in Athens, and Shakespeare lived through the Bubonic plague, so both playwrights undoubtedly had widespread sickness in mind as they wrote. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

And why do we know so little about Anne herself, whom one scholar has called a “wife-shaped void” in the playwright’s story? In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

I mean from anyone, including perhaps even the extremely talented and openhearted playwright who invented them. ‘Halfway Bitches’ Review: A Play as Unruly as Life Itself 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

He was then a miserably failed jobbing actor and unknown playwright, she a beautiful Rada ingenue destined for stardom. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z

Mr. Domingo is mainly known as a playwright and theatrical song-and-dance man. Sea Zombies! How ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Overhauled Itself 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The darkness, chaos and fear of these first minutes sets the tone for the eight-part “Becoming Elizabeth,” written by the British playwright Anya Reiss as an epic family drama — more “Succession” than “The White Queen.” Even a Powerful Queen First Must Survive Being a Teenager 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

To get to 25, we eventually realized that we could only include one play by any given playwright, or risk being overrun by a medley of Annie Bakers or Suzan-Lori Parkses. The Ones We Left Behind 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

If the term “hysteric,” invoked repeatedly in the book, has a musty midcentury ring today, Mr. Lahr, who said he is himself in psychoanalysis, defends it as the playwright’s own. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

That brilliant 23-year-old drama, which made this playwright's career, explores how Western men have long been vulnerable to the seductive mysteries of the beautiful, er, women of the east. Four stars for Goodman's 'Chinglish' 2011-06-27T20:36:00Z

Subjects range from the early development of Pinter's play The Birthday Party to the rise of the then unknown playwright Samuel Beckett. Library acquires Pinter letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Graham assembled that testimony into the London version of the script, which also included satirical versions of themselves, a slightly paranoid playwright and a somewhat pushy director. Is Nothing Secret? Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of ‘Privacy’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

What most playwrights want is to get their play onstage, and it’s so hard to get new plays on.” Laurents/Hatcher Award for New Playwrights Announced 2010-06-02T22:02:00Z

Two years later, at the National Theater, a ghostly set for Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” impressed the famously cantankerous playwright. Es Devlin’s Next Stage 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Implicit in each vignette are the lofty life questions the playwrights wrestled with as the shrinking of urban life turned their gaze inward: What does a healthy relationship look like? Miss the N.Y.C. Subway? These Radio Plays Bring It Back to Life 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

A considered look at 2010 reveals a strong showing by playwrights both established and unknown — all of it homegrown. Bright Fodder for Future Revivals 2010-12-17T03:30:28Z

The playwright, who watches that scene in character as her father, said it has become for her, unexpectedly, “this incredible, profound, spiritual practice.” What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Another area of interest was the number of female playwrights. Women in theatre: how the '2:1 problem' breaks down 2012-12-10T19:30:01Z

“I think a lot of playwrights are shy and retiring,” Ms. Chimo said. With ‘Significant Other,’ Joshua Harmon Happily Writes About the Unhappy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Whether it's 20 lines or 200 lines, they matter. That isn't to say playwrights always get it right. All's well if the play ends well | Mark Fisher 2010-03-29T14:48:00Z

The latest work by playwright Richard Greenberg is a beautiful and touching look at the inner workings of a well-to-do family, their mistakes and the stories that bind them. Review: 'The Assembled Parties' a terrific drama 2013-04-18T00:15:15Z

Yew, a playwright and director of shows like “Cambodian Rock Band,” added. Revisiting ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Through an Asian American Lens 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

If it is not staged in New York, it will not be published or awaken the interest of the stock and amateur theatres from which a playwright might derive continued income. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z

In the past decade, Manhattan Theater Club has had three seasons with zero female playwrights but five, including 2014-15, in which at least half of the plays had a female author. Manhattan Theater Club Faces Diversity Issue 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Worth following for titbits about the playwright, or for more in-depth thoughts have a look at stanleywells.co.uk. Seven days on stage: from Shakespeare in Shoreditch to Zarganar in Soho 2012-06-08T16:13:51Z

Wilson, a chain-smoking sage who died of cancer in 2005, was not a playwright known for warm fuzzies in the rehearsal hall. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’

“I’m feeling a tremendous sense of visibility,” the playwright Karen Hartman said. With the Volt Festival, the Playwright Karen Hartman Comes Home 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Since the end of November, the poet and playwright has been the star of “Yippee Ki Yay,” a one-man retelling of “Die Hard” at the King’s Head Theater in London. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The 60-year-old Mantel said she was delighted to have playwright Mike Poulton, whose works have garnered some of the theatre world's top awards, recreate her novels for the stage. Booker winner Mantel says play next "logical step" 2013-01-24T14:17:11Z

"Barrie was a very important playwright," Davis told the Guardian in 2004. Phil Davis: the unsung hero of British character acting 2013-03-12T20:00:01Z

The question for a playwright is: How do you basically report history in such a way where something is at stake in the present? 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z

The four Tony nominated best plays — all are by playwrights making their Broadway debuts — have all gotten critical raves but may be daunting to some would-be patrons looking for a fun night out. This season on Broadway, plays are singing the blues 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Watching the characters as they wait for enlightenment sometimes prompts this thought toward the playwright: Do something. Review | Shush! ‘Small Mouth Sounds’ views people at a silent retreat 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Miller, who is married to Daniel Day-Lewis and whose father was the playwright Arthur Miller, posits the theatre as an alternative form of transcendence, one that doesn't require the squelching of unruly or selfish desires. Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller – review 2013-07-25T09:00:00Z

While touring the set, Cole explained that many ancient Greek playwrights used dance in their plays, so they would not have been confused by Punchdrunk’s show. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

"For me, I was indulging some romantic idea of who would remember me, or what would happen to me when I was gone," said playwright Jay Torrence. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z

The four men and three women depicted in the play will be invited to see the show, but the playwrights made sure they knew that their presence wasn’t expected. In ‘Coal Country,’ Memories From a Mining Tragedy Live On 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

So opened the scathing statement released on June 8 and signed by some of our most influential playwrights and directors who are Black, Indigenous and people of color. When Culture Really Began to Reckon With White Privilege 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

And as the playwright, I felt it all the time. Nicky Silver on His Broadway Run of ‘The Lyons’ 2012-07-06T04:47:18Z

“Dontrell” finds both the playwright and Theater Alliance on a roll. Buoyant ‘Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea’: Heavy themes, light touch 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Famous for her roles on stage and screen, she was noted for her close collaboration with playwright Samuel Beckett, who described her as a perfect actress. Famous faces who died in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

To write a play or a novel that would evoke the moral horror of this human tragedy, we need a playwright of Brechtian or Beckettian dramatic genius. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The 43-year-old playwright is a man of meditative calm, soft-spoken and genial, in stark contrast to the volcanic scenes he presents onstage. Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America

The all-female “In This Hope: A Pericles Project” is premiering with the playwrights’ group the Welders. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

This theatrical think tank, winner of the 2010 regional theater Tony Award, will again foster new work development in its four conferences: for playwrights, musical theater, puppetry, and cabaret and performance. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

For Winkler, though, one of her goals for “Kentucky” was personal: to shed what she calls “the angry playwright label.” A young playwright's quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The playwright has not strained herself over the lyrics, pretty much all unpublishable. Review: ‘Locked Up’ and in for a Ruff Night 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“If I’m any good as a playwright, it’s because I’m always good at seeing the other side.” Mr. Rogers?s Very Tough Neighborhood 2011-11-20T16:57:52Z

When the two men took the idea to playwright Joseph Stein, he told them it was far too sprawling a story. 'Fiddler on the Roof's' universal themes still resonate after 50 years 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

The Roundabout Theater Company will bring two playwrights with current New York hits on board for its 2016-17 season. Roundabout Adds Chekhov (by Way of Karam) and Bartlett to Next Season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Her father, Mario, was a Cuban actor, director and playwright, and Ms. Peña spent much of her childhood in Cuba before returning to the United States. Elizabeth Peña, Actress on the Big and Small Screens, Dies at 55 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

By then, Hellman’s reputation as the country’s most important female playwright was practically eclipsed by her greater celebrity as a defiant emblem of toughness and virtue. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

On stage, Briers was associated with the work of British comic playwright Alan Ayckbourn, playing leading roles in "Relatively Speaking," "Absurd Person Singular" and "Absent Friends." British actor Richard Briers dies at 79 2013-02-18T14:34:08Z

The Fire This Time Festival, which features short plays by early-career playwrights and had been scheduled to begin this month, was moved to July. City Ballet Pushes Back Start of Winter Season, Citing Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The playwright, too, has also overwhelmed the show, with a surfeit of ideas jostling for limited oxygen. Review: In ‘On That Day in Amsterdam,’ a Traveler Becomes a Tourist 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

This, er, bloodcurdling vampire drama, written by the young playwright Joseph Wilde, makes most movies, books or plays about the famously undead, however gory, seem like sweet little bedtime stories. Review: ‘Cuddles,’ Not Your Typical Vampire Drama, Opens at 59E59 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The playwright may rework lines and scenes, so much so that actors have to carry the new pages onstage. Diary of a world premiere: Join playwright Rajiv Joseph as the curtain rises on his 'Archduke' 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Eno’s voice, which teases out the poetry in the pedestrian and finds glinting humor in the static that infuses our faltering efforts to communicate, is as distinctive as any American playwright’s today. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z

“Conceptually cool yet full of old-fashioned razzmatazz, this drag artist is also a queer playwright who enjoys liberating audiences from traditional gender categories, sexual hierarchies and other forms of ‘hetero-normative’ oppression.” Taylor Mac is a MacArthur genius. If you don't know about his 24-hour extravaganza, here's why you should 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hall, the British screenwriter and playwright, discovered “Network” while living in America in the 1990s and had wanted to bring it to the stage for nearly a decade. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

“It’s so ridiculous and absurd that he decides to build a rocket,” the playwright says. Perspective | A Palestinian play comes to the Kennedy Center, offering a comedic olive branch 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

All the same, in ambiguous times, there’s a perverse ecstasy in watching the vagueness and vagaries of others embodied with such triumphant precision by a theater-drunk playwright and his players. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

He has grown a goatee for his new part and says he likes being able to sit down and discuss the work with the playwright. Chris Rock adds Broadway to his funny resume 2011-03-06T14:25:08Z

After graduation, he moved to London, where he worked at several production companies, met the playwright Dawn King, who became a friend and collaborator, and began to make his films. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The story originates with the playwright but it becomes a living thing when other people — cast, crew, audience — collaborate to make it live. When a Playwright and His Play Are Separated 2010-06-11T18:00:00Z

That is, until I sat in steamy Central Park the other night, watching the uproarious surgery playwright Jocelyn Bioh, director Saheem Ali and company have applied to make the comedy a garden of earthy delights. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

An actor can point a playwright to a line that’s funnier than the one he composed; a designer can illuminate for the director the meaning of a scene. Perspective | A play is birthed online, and I was in the delivery room 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Wes Bentley portrayed Thomas, the director and playwright who auditions Vanda, at Classic Stage, though no additional Broadway casting was immediately announced. ArtsBeat: Nina Arianda to Dominate New Broadway Production of 'Venus in Fur' 2011-06-28T16:00:53Z

Bruce Norris Bruce Norris, a playwright with deep ties to Chicago, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in drama Monday for "Clybourne Park," a satire about real estate and race set on the city's North Side. Norris wins Pulitzer for 'Clybourne Park' 2011-04-18T19:09:00Z

I wonder what Ms. Wharton might have thought of "Anna Karenina" set primarily on a theater stage, as in Joe Wright's new version, scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard. Toronto International Film Festival: 'Anna Karenina,' 'Seven Psychopaths' 2012-09-07T16:50:05Z

For playwrights, performers and theatergoers alike, imagining the other afforded the opportunity to get better acquainted with oneself. In L.A. theater, Martin Luther King and privileged white men helped drive points home 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

His profile as a playwright was raised with "Bakersfield Mist," which received a London production last year starring Kathleen Turner, but he's been writing plays all along. Fountain Theatre celebrates its first 25 years as a vital, intimate L.A. stage 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It is no surprise, then, that playwrights frequently use profane language — curses, expletives, oaths and epithets — in their work. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Albee’s importance can’t be overstated,” said Matthew C. Roudane, a professor of English at Georgia State University and a scholar on playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Cuban American playwright María Irene Fornés has done as much as any modern playwright to change the landscape of American theater. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

University-educated, jealous, snooty playwrights might have been keen to take him down a peg. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

He appeared in Lanford Wilson's play "The Fourth of July," which begat a long career with the playwright, and prompted Daniels to become a playwright himself. Jeff Daniels on theater vs. film and the man who never forgave him for making "Dumb & Dumber" 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

O.K., it wasn’t actually Havel, the Czech playwright who went from dissident to president and died in 2011 at 75. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z

When the playwright Jiehae Park was in high school, applying for college was a competitive sport. How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

September looks set to be a breakthrough month for the playwright. Nick Payne wins London's Royal Court Pinter prize 2012-07-10T12:58:49Z

So many great young playwrights are writing monologues and pieces and getting actors to do them and then they compile them, curate these different monologues. "People are starved to be in a crowded room again": Cherry Jones on how theater will bounce back 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Asked to assess how the artists at Theater J handled Mr. Wiesel’s concerns, Ms. Margolis took a long pause and studied the face of her playwright, Ms. Margolin, who still looked exhausted from the battle. Deborah Margolin?s Madoff Play, Now Without Wiesel 2010-07-20T00:39:00Z

Mr. Hitchcock, a former actor, playwright and political organizer, founded Kayak in 1964 and for the next 20 years ran it as a one-man show. George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96 2010-09-04T05:04:00Z

Seldes earned five Tony nominations, winning the award her first time out in 1967 for her supporting role in "A Delicate Balance" by the playwright Edward Albee, with whom she had a long association. Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

More than 2,400 years ago, the Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote “Lysistrata,” an antiwar satire in which a group of women endeavor to stop the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their husbands. Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

And though their names, and their resoluteness, are legend in Japan, Musashi and Kojiro don’t stand a chance against the elaborate and multifarious theatrical magic that a venerable playwright and director have gathered against them. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z

He loved it, but decided that in the future he didn’t want to miss the chemistry that occurs when the playwright is actually in the room for the rehearsal process. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Given that versatility, Lee is more a nimble and daring theater artist than a playwright, one who alternately wears the hats of performer, writer, director and producer. Playwright Young Jean Lee asks, 'What do we want straight white men to do that they're not doing?' 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's been a busy year for celebrated playwright Simon Stephens whose Three Kingdoms was a controversial hit at the Lyric Hammersmith. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-09-28T23:06:25Z

The story of Bunton, a mischievous taxi driver, failed playwright and possible cat burglar from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has given Broadbent another eccentric character. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The central conceit of “Will,” that players and playwrights were the superstars of their day, isn’t quite true. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

The playwright and television writer’s debut collection, which came out in May, features interconnected stories about the complexities of intimacy. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Baker may be the only playwright working today who’s known for what she doesn’t write. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

In his first TV outing, the playwright Mike Bartlett may just have found the missing link between Bet and David Lynch. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

On the side, he was also a novelist and sometime playwright. Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ dies at 85 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

But, as the playwright noted, not everything in a work of drama is playable on a recording. Now hear this! Playwrights are making theater for the ears. Yes, that’s a thing. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

She will make her New York stage debut in this drama by Danai Gurira, an actress and playwright who shines pretty brightly, too. Theater Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

For playwrights, tourist-driven Broadway is no longer the crossroads of American theater: That distinction is now shared by dozens of play-commissioning regional theaters, along with the playhouses and nonprofit companies of off-Broadway. Perspective | All at once, Broadway is carrying a ‘torch’ for landmark gay plays of the 20th century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The Secret Life of William Shakespeareby Jude Morgan In this confident and accomplished fictional rendering of Shakespeare's life, Morgan makes a virtue of how little we know for certain about the playwright. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z

They include musicians, composers, filmmakers and a playwright. Kresge awards fellowships for Detroit artists 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Almost from the moment he broke through with “Zoo Story,” Mr. Albee was a mentor and teacher of new playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

New French plays often come to Avignon for a trial run, too, and at a theater called 11, the playwright Jean-Christophe Dollé has landed a hit with “Phone Me.” Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Playwright Michael Frayn picked up a special lifetime achievement award "Producers on the whole expect writers to cut their teeth in the subsidised theatre," said the playwright, whose works include Noises Off and Benefactors. A Curious night at the Olivier Awards 2013-04-29T07:53:19Z

The kaleidoscopic colors of Ms. Chin’s score, with a brilliantly enigmatic libretto by the playwright David Henry Hwang, stood out all the more starkly against these relatively restrained surroundings. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. David, who already played a semi-fictionalized version of himself on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” said he didn’t know how he felt about becoming a playwright and actor on Broadway. Larry David Will Make His Broadway Debut 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Back in the day, playwrights like Ben Hecht would look on writing a script for a film like The Flintstones the same way as The Front Page: a work assignment. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Charles Marowitz, who brought a thorny iconoclasm to a versatile theater career as a director, playwright, teacher and critic, died on May 2 in Agoura Hills, Calif. He was 82. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

There's even a topical reference to the intractable politics of the union, "the flag that failed", in which MacGregor is forced to concede that the playwright "on the whole evades the question of Britain". Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

Over the last four seasons, Ms. Meadow said, 43 percent of playwrights and directors at the company were women and minorities. Manhattan Theater Club Faces Diversity Issue 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

“When You Finish Saving the World” is, for better or worse, exactly the movie one would expect from the actor, writer and playwright Jesse Eisenberg: wordy, whiny and self-consciously wry. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

I've been enamored of it as a person, and as a filmmaker and a playwright. Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

But younger playwrights like Ms. Mensch and Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa seem less so. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z

Emerging San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen won an Obie Award this year for the piece’s off-Broadway presentation, and Louis Ozawa Changchien, a leading player in that production, performs here. An immersive theater piece that'll have you 'Caught' up in ideas 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The playwright drew on his youth in east London, where conversation, argument and song were woven into the fabric of daily life. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

They were introduced through the musicologist Laurence Dreyfus in 2005, after Benjamin had met dozens of playwrights and film directors with a view toward writing an opera, including Arthur Miller and David Lynch. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

The playwright uses dialogue, rap, dance and even whimsical zoological parallels to sketch the lives of those who fall within the ever-widening range of gender identities. ‘The T Party’ at Forum Theatre: Natsu Onoda Power’s witty exploration of gender identity 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The director Katie Brook and the playwright Liza Birkenmeier, hockey fans both, have scraped some of that bad ice into “Islander,” a verbatim piece at HERE. Review: In ‘Islander,’ the Puck Stops Here 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

She said starring opposite Walken as the one-handed pirate pursued by a crocodile in the story by the Scottish playwright J.M. Christopher Walken gets his Hook into Peter Pan live TV musical 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

I gave the playwrights a broad mandate: Pick your favorite sin and write a 10-minute play with one or two actors. Bringing Stages to Storefronts in a Theater-Hungry City 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

On a very simple level, there is something about wanting to move little bodies around in space and put them in relationship to each other that is a similar impulse to being a playwright. They Played With Dolls. Did That Make Them Playwrights? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

But Odets's significance as a playwright was not in fact restricted to his rabble-rousing. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z

Yet even as women constitute two-thirds of the Broadway audience, women still lag far behind men as playwrights, composers, directors and designers. Women on Broadway: A Year of Living Dangerously 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Unlike other nonprofit companies that program seasons emphasizing diversity of work, both contemporary and classic, Mr. Houghton chose to found a theater that would present the work of just one playwright per season. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Intiman opens the season with, remarkably, its first production of a play by Arthur Miller: the playwright's classic post-WWII drama about a family pushed into extraordinary circumstances. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-03-23T22:54:09Z

I think the playwright grappled with too many ideas that led down paths and never arrived anywhere, though the premise itself was quite compelling. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Both a playwright and a screenwriter, Rebeck has learned a thing or three about constructing crime and suspense yarns from her years turning out scripts for "NYPD Blue" and other TV series. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z

As for the impact of the project on the playwrights more broadly, Ms. Douthit, in an email, said it was too soon to tell, and also hard to untangle the various strands of influence. A Shakespeare Festival Presents Modern Translations. Cue the Debate (Again). 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Music is often thought of as inherently good, a view exemplified in the playwright Wilhelm Congreve's oft-cited aphorism "music hath charms to soothe a savage breast." How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Building the Wall,” for example, is a two-character drama that the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan told the New York Times he whipped up in a “white hot fury” in response to Trump’s campaign. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The plague onstage is a tool of the playwright that can be wielded like a curse, meant to punish offenders and deliver a lesson. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

He was a playwright and screenwriter whose characters did not so much skirmish as chafe. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Its author is best known as a playwright. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

WALLACE, Idaho — Late in October, the playwright Samuel D. Hunter crouched in a defunct silver mine in Northern Idaho. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Attention struggling playwrights: Should you need inspiration, avoid Shakespeare, Molière and the like. Theater Review: ‘The Spring Fling: First Love,’ at the Access Theater 2014-05-05T21:19:25Z

The playwright and screenwriter on witnessing Brook “model a life as an artist” at his Paris base. ‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Keith Pattison There's a historic first at Shakespeare's Globe theatre this week when it stages its first play by a known female playwright – and that includes in the theatre's previous, historic incarnation. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

D’Andrea picks at least one from each playwright and divides his selections into thematic groups. D.C. dancers tapped for ‘Brothers of the Knight’ national tour

The ingenious playwright Kate Benson had a hit with “A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes,” in which sportscasters provided color commentary on a family’s Thanksgiving meal. Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Jones created and wrote the series with the experimental playwright Tim Crouch, and it’s as if his character from the wonderful “Detectorists” had been dropped into a darker, artier sitcom. Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

"I thought there was something there," the playwright recalls. A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph 2011-03-31T19:46:05Z

Mr. Benjamin answered questions about “Dream of the Song” by email from London, where he is working with the playwright Martin Crimp, his collaborator on “Skin,” on a new opera scheduled for 2018. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival has created an incredible opportunity for women playwrights to share their stories. Perspective | Second Women’s Voices Theater Festival arrives as #MeToo is in the spotlight 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

In 2015, the composer Matthew Aucoin emailed the playwright Sarah Ruhl to ask whether she would be interested in working with him on a new opera inspired by the Orpheus myth. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

The playwright Theresa Rebeck is listed as creator and does some of the writing. Television Review: ?Smash,? on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston 2012-02-05T22:56:28Z

Here, what Ben Brantley once called Maxwell’s “Olympian calm of a playwright with a god’s-eye view” seems to bump its head on the ceiling, repeating its distant observations from a cold distance. Review: In ‘Field of Mars,’ a March Toward Oblivion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

And new works by three young women playwrights used tiny stages to blow conventional forms of entertainment into smithereens. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

I first read “Trouble in Mind” — along with a wide range of works by Black American playwrights — as a student at Morgan State University in Maryland, one of our nation’s historically Black colleges and universities. LaChanze on the Personal Resonance of Alice Childress’s Timeless Words 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Hunter’s sense of place is richer and more particular than any other American playwright working today. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Color is the fruit of life” was the designer’s mantra — a quote from the French poet and playwright Guillaume Apollinaire. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z

As for playwrights, I’m a David Mamet fan. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

That’s one of the questions the playwright Mac Rogers asks in his adaptation of Karel Capek’s 1921 play about humans and automatons. Theater Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

She directed the original stage production of Fleabag, script-edited the TV version and is currently the National Theatre’s playwright in residence. Vicky Jones: 'Fleabag felt like a tipping point for feminism' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

There have been a tonne of plays that are showing more variety from black playwrights. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z

She experienced the omission, she said, as a form of censorship, which she felt especially strongly as a female playwright and a person of color. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

When playwright Robert O’Hara writes comedy, outrageousness is a given. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In all these societies, as in many others, from the 1870s onwards, there was a fetishisation, first by poets and playwrights and painters and then by intellectuals and politicians, of the countryside itself. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

The playwright knows too that, in his chosen medium, a creator’s isolation eventually gives way to collaboration: maybe maddening, bickersome and chaotic, but at least not solitary. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Hearing Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of “A Strange Loop,” speak about soap operas is like getting lost in a Wikipedia wormhole. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Shot from the seats and backstage, mostly during rehearsals, his work candidly depicts actors awaiting cues, playwrights scrutinizing run-throughs and directors lounging on sets. Glenn Fitzgerald Photos of ‘Ivanov’ and ‘Realistic Joneses’ 2012-12-31T23:36:49Z

Denying playwrights, screenwriters and directors from marginalized communities a platform for their work deprives everyone the opportunity to engage with the world in new ways. Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Part of that is due to a creative wave flowing through Kander, sparked by his new collaboration with rising playwright and novelist Greg Pierce, who is some 50 years his junior. Composer John Kander Rides New Creative Wave at 86 2013-10-16T14:09:00Z

Begun by one playwright, Giles Cooper, and finished by another, Edward Albee — who adapted the play for American audiences in 1967 — "Everything in the Garden" is very much of its time. 'Everything in the Garden': Theatre 9/12 examines the cost of keeping up 2011-07-28T18:48:05Z

No up-and-coming playwright in New York City is living in the lap of luxury, but Larson’s digs were especially hardscrabble. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Other notable big screen roles include her co-starring slot as mentor to a disturbed wannabe playwright in the 2000 black comedy Chuck & Buck. Lupe Ontiveros dies aged 69 2012-07-27T16:49:51Z

“Good evening people of the dance: I am not one of you,” said the actress and playwright Lisa Kron, our exceptional host. Bessie Awards Honor a Wide World of Dance 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Like a playwright who knows her characters must never sit down long for dinner, Allende immediately begins expanding this story by focusing on a new, young aide at Lark House named Irina Bazili. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The statement Thursday fell short of an apology which the playwright demanded during an interview with The New York Times a day earlier. CUNY: Decision no reflection on Kushner's talent 2011-05-06T11:49:09Z

In addition to his stand-up specials and regular appearances at places like UnCabaret, the Los Angeles alternative comedy theater, Mr. Negron was a playwright and screenwriter. Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Gerrard, an actor who would also appear to be a natural-born playwright, stakes out his own valley of shadows in this landscape. Review: In ‘Steve,’ Contemplating Middle Age and Monogamy 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Yet there is no guarantee that she was going to pursue a career as a playwright. Marina Keegan’s ‘Independents’ at the Fringe 2012-08-19T03:40:26Z

But there are peculiar gaps in the story, places where it’s hard to see why something would happen if the playwright, who plays Maz, weren’t pulling the strings. ‘Maz and Bricks’ Review: Marching for Rights, With Signs of Romance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Part of his job as playwright in residence, he added, will be to lead by example. Tarell Alvin McCraney to Head Playwriting Program at Yale 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

This is where Mr. Ruddy, an actor and director turned playwright, throws “The International” badly off balance. Review: In ‘The International,’ Those Who Treat a Massacre as Entertainment 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

It's an impressive debut for a promising playwright. 'American Falls' at Atwater Village Theatre grapples with damage from the implosion of the American dream 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

That is not the fault of the actors, particularly Eve Matheson's dignified Hecuba, but because the ironic, distancing voice of the male characters – and the playwright – overpowers these women's cries. After Troy ? review 2011-03-21T18:29:02Z

At that time he had been considered the greatest living playwright. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z

In the 1950s, the choreographer Merce Cunningham became an early exponent of what would become the Theater of the Absurd, alongside the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

You started your writing career as a playwright. Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the contemporary playwright Ben Jonson famously wrote that Shakespeare had "small Latin, and less Greek." Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

The company also hosts an annual playwright’s retreat that invites three to six emerging and established playwrights to Southern California for a weeklong residency to workshop their plays with professional actors and directors. NEA helps the Autry Museum provide a rare platform for Native American playwrights 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

It would put visual artists on the same footing as composers, playwrights and authors, who must be paid every time a work is resold as a live performance, a recording or a book. Legal fight over California's unique art-sales law nears climax 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

One line that is repeated several times, “there is no chronology,” applies as much to the playwright’s philosophical worldview as to the dramatic architecture. David Greenspan's 'Go Back to Where You Are': charmingly offbeat and yet off by a beat 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

“The Whipping Man,” a Manhattan Theater Club production that is Mr. Lopez’s New York debut as a playwright, earned strong reviews during stops at four regional theaters. Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To 2011-01-27T23:00:09Z

One such myth, although it’s rarely regarded as such, is that Shakespeare was the most famous playwright of his day. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Then that sly smile returned as he realized that he had just started a public spat with a Tony Award-winning playwright. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z

Three-week festival spotlighting works by local female playwrights concludes with “A Colorful Conscience,” a collection of short plays by Rochelle Perry. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Now Hare is in the States on a brief book tour, promoting “The Blue Touch Paper,” his memoir of becoming a playwright in the tumultuous, still-unformed London scene of the 1960s and ’70s. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being “a black playwright,” without knowing exactly what that means. Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

You empathize on this occasion with Jennings’s wholly embraceable Mark, but even more so with a playwright struggling to contain all of her thoughts about this utterly confounding juncture for our democracy. Review | It was a dark and stormy night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, as the talk turned to Trump . . . 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

There’s nothing notably Mozartian about this piece: It’s music of today that speaks in a contemporary language, with a sharp English libretto by the playwright Martin Crimp. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

When I started to list my favorite writers, I was surprised to discover they were all primarily playwrights. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Meat Loaf says his relationship with Steinman is more like that of an actor with a playwright than a singer with a songwriter; he even compares Steinman with Samuel Beckett. Meat Loaf's farewell tour: 'This time, they're not going to rope me back in' 2013-04-02T17:23:16Z

“I didn’t want to outstay my welcome,” he said on a recent video call, from the study of his home in Portland, Ore., a black-and-white diptych of the playwright Samuel Beckett behind him. In a New ‘Night Court,’ John Larroquette Plays Defense 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

There’s been a big explosion of Asian-American playwrights and talent Off Broadway and in the regions. New Flight for a New ‘Butterfly’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

BUCHAREST, Romania — Alexandru Tocilescu, a respected Romanian theater director equally at home with Shakespeare and his country's national playwright, died on Wednesday. Well-known Romanian theater director dies 2011-11-30T17:02:06Z

These sections, created by the fine playwright Eisa Davis, came across as didactic. ‘Trade Practices,’ a Collaborative Show With Funny Money 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

At the other Canadian mainstay, the Stratford Festival, the artistic director Antoni Cimolino’s season is inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canada’s birth as a nation, and includes several plays by Canadian playwrights. 15 Summer Theater Festivals (and More) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

For good reason Mr Lahr calls Williams “the most autobiographical of American playwrights”. Making Tenn out of Tom 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Along with the playwright and the actors, they were crammed into the theater’s small canteen, shouting their congratulations and conversations in an atmosphere thick with cigarette smoke and fragrant Austrian white wine. Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

It took the playwright Bekah Brunstetter substantially less time to write “The Cake,” which riffs on that case, and to see it produced around the country. Onstage, the New Gay Agenda Involves Cake and Not Getting Fired 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

All the playwrights and all the actors are Asian American. 5 Monologues, Each a Showcase for Asian American Actors Over 60 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Ritchie: When the opportunity comes it may be hard for a playwright or creators to say no. A Tony Awards round table with L.A.-area theater leaders 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

They won her a Critics' Circle award for most promising playwright and an Olivier award nomination. Laura Wade's posh | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

Somewhat perplexed by the existential implications of the setup, I returned another day with a dashing playwright friend to help parse it. Critical Shopper: Shopping at The Apartment in SoHo 2014-05-07T15:12:05Z

It's less true for playwrights – yet the former Pulitzer prize-winner will suffer just that ignominious fate after his latest play posted closing notices less than 24 hours after its opening night. David Mamet's The Anarchist bombs on Broadway 2012-12-05T13:53:33Z

The night was auspicious, too, for playwright Stephen Karam, whose tragicomic family drama “The Humans” was named best new play. ‘Hamilton’ doesn’t hit a record at the Tonys, but dominates the night 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

And I remember feeling my life change as I turned around and went back to my room, thinking, 'Now I have to figure out how to be a playwright. Spotlight shines brighter on 'Appropriate' playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The playwright Friedrich Schiller was beset by chronic ailments and complained that “imagination disturbs my abstract thinking, and cold reason my poetry.” These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

However, frequently this will be a Shakespeare revival or, if producers are feeling particularly adventurous, a classic by a different playwright – but probably one born no later than 1900. Outdoor theatre needs a breath of fresh air 2010-06-25T11:23:00Z

Crazy Horse’s director, Philippe Decouflé, is as passionate about the integrity of his vision as any filmmaker or playwright, and his collaborators are, if anything, even more ardent. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z

But what does Ms. Anyanwu, a 35-year-old performer and playwright born in Trenton and raised in Bucks County, Pa., know about Nigerian burial customs? Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

But it was a reminder that playwrights really need to look beyond New York theater if we want to be produced today.” Hard Times Hurt LAByrinth-Public Theater Partnership 2010-04-14T21:41:00Z

I felt lucky to be a playwright rather than an actor, whose canvas is his or her face. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Martin Gottfried, a drama critic and the author of several biographies of entertainers and playwrights as well as two influential studies of the Broadway musical, died on Thursday in Manhattan. Martin Gottfried, Theater Critic and Author, Dies at 80 2014-03-08T02:15:02Z

It is that spirit that Nottage and Jordan said they hope to cultivate in the next generation of playwrights. Lorraine Hansberry Statue to Be Unveiled in Times Square 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The playwright Gregory Murphy wrote The Countess, which dealt with the same affair and appeared successfully on Broadway in 1999 and subsequently in the West End in London. Emma Thompson's Effie facing copyright fight 2011-02-09T00:51:51Z

When I was at school, I don't think I realised there were playwrights who were alive and still writing; you just don't register that it's still a new and ongoing art form. Penelope Skinner, playwright – portrait of the artist 2012-09-25T18:01:01Z

The playwright David Hare will adapt Ms. Boo’s book, and Rufus Norris, one of the theater’s associate directors, will direct the production. ArtsBeat: Katherine Boo’s ‘Beautiful Forevers’ Headed to the Stage 2013-05-10T18:50:14Z

I've got the same birthday as him, and I like the fact he was also a playwright and a spy; as someone with lots of jobs, I can identify with that. Portrait of the artist: Jools Holland, musician and broadcaster 2011-08-01T21:01:01Z

This week, we’ve gathered a selection of pieces on the cultural impact of some notable American playwrights. Sunday Reading: American Playwrights 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Six playwrights tell the story concurrently and audience members, with cash in hand, will decide which narratives to finance. Theater Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Two documentaries shine a light on the lives of celebrated writers: the groundbreaking playwright Arthur Miller and the inimitable film critic Roger Ebert. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Arthur Miller: Writer’ and ‘Life Itself’ 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The playwright A. R. Gurney has proved a steadfast cartographer of shrinking territory: upper-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in decline. | 'Children' : A. R. Gurney?s ?Children? is Revived at Beckett Theater - Review 2011-11-08T22:19:06Z

This girl, the product of Ms. Roiphe’s doomed early marriage to the playwright Jack Richardson, is her mother’s companion in the unlikeliest and unhealthiest situations. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z

It is the morning after the opening of a new theatre in Cape Town, the Fugard, named after the great South African playwright, Athol Fugard. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

Described as "a real-time play for theatre and television", it is the latest work by playwright James Graham. More4 to screen election night drama 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The next day, the ran an obituary claiming him as "the most important American playwright after Eugene O'Neill", though it had been two decades since his last successful play. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

Capital city to an all-star list of playwrights that includes George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Samuel Beckett, Dublin continues to develop important and inventive talents today. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z

But isn't it - wasn't it - written by Americans, based on the play "Pygmalion" by the playwright George Bernard Shaw who was himself...Irish? "Ow"Liza and the BBC Proms is doing "My Fair Lady"? 2012-07-12T11:51:39Z

He’s grateful for the directors he worked with in regional theater who made him read the entire canon of noted American playwrights. Review | How weird is Nick Nolte? The actor bares his soul in a new memoir. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

The program includes “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Cymbeline” and “Henry V” — all by the namesake playwright — as well as Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker” and crowd pleasers like the musical “42nd Street.” Overnighter: Tracking Bieber and the Bard in Stratford 2012-06-22T15:21:25Z

Rourke last worked with playwright James Graham on 2014's Privacy, an interactive play about internet security that encouraged audiences to use their smart phones as part of the show. Dench to star in election night drama 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Or, rather, a playwright absolutely can; but I rarely want to see it. Review: In ‘Anatomy of a Suicide,’ Pain in Triplicate 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the last year, Benjamin was commissioned to write three short plays — her first assignments as a playwright. Disabled People Fear Being Left Behind as U.K. Culture Venues Reopen 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The playwright took that as his premise — a horrible crime committed by a seemingly gentle, lonely lad who, in Shaffer’s conceit, loves horses to the point of worship. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Oliver Mayer, a playwright and associate professor of dramatic writing at the University of Southern California, said the site was refreshing. Site's satirical take on Hollywood pushes boundaries – and earns raves 2012-10-02T12:19:43Z

For playwrights, interpretation is one thing, but messing with the actual words in the script is another issue entirely. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

In each, a lone actor sits at a table and re-tells one of the playwright’s complex dramas using inanimate kitchen objects. Essential Arts & Culture: China and Taiwan's music diplomacy, Ghost Ship fallout and Gary's Busey-isms 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The celebrated playwright wrote especially for her, calling her the perfect actress. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Character insights, as a playwright, is something that I'm always interested in in my plays. "Killing Eve" is back, with consequences 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

“My first season will follow a season with eight white male playwrights,” Ms. Sharif said. Doors Open for Women and People of Color at Top Ranks of American Theater 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis were both in the audience last month at the LAByrinth Theater Company’s reading of Mr. Guirgis’s new work, directed by Mr. Hoffman. Hey, Kids, Let?s Put on a Reading! 2011-01-20T23:00:41Z

To get himself started, he decided, as he put it, to "stitch together" two short stories by that master short story-writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z

He said that playwrights don't receive the same unemployment benefits as actors, costume designers and other theater professionals. Naked man disrupting France's Molieres awards goes viral 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

"Midwestern people don't make for good interviews," says the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright and actor, who proudly makes his home in Chicago. Playwright Tracy Letts reveals his Midwestern side 2012-10-12T11:53:10Z

But the theater producers who envisioned “Shakespeare in Love” onstage, Disney Theatrical Productions and the London impresario Sonia Friedman, refused to give up, hiring the playwright Lee Hall to create a new adaptation. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

A version of that quote, attributed to the playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt, opens “In the Land of Pomegranates,” and its question hangs over each scene. Review: ‘In the Land of Pomegranates’ Asks if Mideast Peace Is Possible 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The playwright Jenny Lyn Bader, who had her “Love Story” trial by fire in the 1980s, found it “fun and hilarious” at the time. Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z

Rutherford and Son, a little-known tale by neglected playwright Githa Sowerby of family divisions, capitalism and feminism, is directed by Jonathan Miller at the Viaduct theatre in Halifax. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z

Let’s Create: A New Play Festival Eight new short plays by up-and-coming local playwrights. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 10-17: 'Runaway Home,' Ain't Misbehavin'' and more 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

At 76, the great British playwright has decided it's time to give himself free rein. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

But other than David, who did a couple scripts for us, and Kia Corthron, the playwright, did one, we were really inattentive to diversity. ‘The Wire’ at 20: ‘This Show Will Live Forever’ 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Triska emigrated in 1977 after signing a human rights manifesto inspired by his close friend Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who later became president of the Czech Republic. Jan Triska, Czech-American Actor Seen in ‘Ragtime,’ Dies at 80 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

"We want to show his work is much more inclusive, embracing than it's given credit for," he said of the Dubliner widely seen as one of the leading playwrights of the 20th century. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Since part of the mission is to introduce Wilson's sweeping dramas to more youths, the Rep staff recruited contestants by visiting local schools and leading workshops on the playwright. Teen actors in spotlight in August Wilson Monologue Competition 2011-03-04T21:23:15Z

He had just married the playwright Eve Ensler, who thankfully adopted me and literally saved my life. Dylan McDermott: The First Time I Waited On a Celebrity’s Table 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

“Making a play is an extremely vulnerable experience — for actors, for playwrights, for theaters — because you’re creating something and sharing it,” Feldman says. Al Pacino and the role that pulled him to the Pasadena Playhouse stage 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

But for many playwrights, the productions that follow a play’s premiere — when it is handed over to theaters around the country and the world — can be fraught. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Manhattan Theater Club takes different percentages from playwrights’ royalties depending on the length of a production’s run. Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

As for those of you who like to imagine you’re at the vanguard of all things artistic, Summerworks allows you to say you knew certain rising playwrights before your friends did. Review: ‘Tin Cat Shoes,’ a Commentary on the Silliness of the System 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The playwright's victory should, as Michael Billington says, provide "a significant boost to black playwrights" – and open the doors a little wider for those trying to sustain a career in theatre. A boost for black theatre 2010-03-22T17:11:00Z

With various nods to Pirandello, Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn — the last a British playwright known for his ingenious manipulations of dramatic structure and timing — Posner turns the Milton into confessional way station. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

But playwrights from the allegedly over-parented millennial generation don’t seem particularly comfortable venting their spleens. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Last Sunday, worshipers at the 11 a.m. service at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco heard something unusual: a sermon delivered by Anna Deavere Smith, the award-winning actress and playwright. The Bay Citizen: Mixing Art and Religion With Anna Deavere Smith as Grace Cathedral?s Artist-in-Residence 2012-02-10T06:05:55Z

But playwrights say they treasure the Tonys, because the ceremony introduces new audiences to theater. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

We can’t read the playwright’s mind, but what’s onstage is a play that objectifies women and encourages the audience to ultimately empathize with their misogynist teacher. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z

He thought it was from the playwright George Bernard Shaw, but reconsidered, brow furrowed, then looked it up on his phone and realized it was from the poet William Butler Yeats. A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The James Earl Jones Theater will be the second Broadway house named for a Black artist; the August Wilson, operated by Jujamcyn Theaters, was renamed for the American playwright shortly after his death in 2005. Broadway’s Cort Theater Will Have a New Name: James Earl Jones 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lee — whose credits as a television writer include “Looking,” “Girls” and “How to Get Away With Murder” — made an auspicious debut as a playwright several years ago with “Luce” at Lincoln Center Theater. Review: In ‘Relevance,’ a Titan of Feminism Confronts a New Generation 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Before becoming a critic, I was a dramaturg, dispensing in-house advice to artistic directors and giving what I hoped were helpful notes to playwrights and directors. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The playwright, the director and the entire cast were African-American. 2017 Tony Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Frears was presented with the award by playwright David Hare at the London Film Festival Awards ceremony. Frears receives BFI fellowship 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Brenton's plays have never been afraid to confront subjects that would make nervier playwrights run for cover. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

“I’m sorry, this random boy just walked into your room and you want to give him a kiss?” the playwright muses. ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ adapter takes science on an awfully big adventure 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The new policies are a response to growing complaints from playwrights. Public and Roundabout Change Policy in Playwrights? Favor 2010-03-24T21:46:00Z

The Olivier Award-winning playwright wanted to consider the emotional wrangle over intellectual property in art. He’s the Producer. She’s the Talent. Who Owns the Hit Record? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

But forbidding her characters to talk was also an impediment she wanted to place in her own path as a playwright, to break herself of reliance on clever dialogue. In Bess Wohl’s ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

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

“I’m not glamorous, I don’t have a look, I don’t know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I’m too old,” Ms. Daly, 65, told the playwright. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z

Stevens, a Chicago-born playwright now living in England, has cerebral palsy. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

The liberties the playwright and director take with the trilogy — completed in about 2½ hours, with one intermission — include eliminating some characters, such as Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s lover, who is implicated in Agamemnon’s death. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Three Tall Women,” which ran for 582 performances off-Broadway, was a triumph that overnight transformed Mr. Albee’s reputation from Broadway has-been to a dean of American playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

A portrait of the playwright as a young dissolute man, Edmund is the fragile observer of the inferno engulfing his family. Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek and the slow burn of a 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

She grew up in western Massachusetts, the granddaughter of a Ziegfeld girl and the daughter of Anne Ludlum, an actress and playwright. She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Siragusa is an actor, playwright, artist and photographer, and it seems just about everyone in town knows him. In Omaha, Farmers and Chefs Are Good Together 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Not since the 17th century, when playwrights were regularly put in prison for displeasing politicians, or even the long period of censorship that lasted until 1968, has British theatre had any need to conceal itself. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z

Over two or three days, the playwright asked a group of actors to try to remember episodes about Springfield's famous yellow family. Will The Simpsons survive the apocalypse? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Out of the shadows ... ventriloquists must start thinking like playwrights if the form is to evolve, says David Strassman, pictured here with sidekick Chuck. Watch my lips: the art of ventriloquism deserves centre stage 2010-08-27T10:02:00Z

“For us, the opinion of the playwright is god,” said Meadow during the February 21 rehearsal. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Seattle playwright Nathaniel Porter explores this notion in his new, overly sketchy drama, "No Snowflake in an Avalanche," staged by the Emerald City Scene troupe. Review: Emerald City Scene stages 'No Snowflake in an Avalanche,' about the seasons in a family's life 2011-01-24T19:57:04Z

Tony Kushner is frequently cited as the country’s leading working playwright, so it’s more than slightly alarming to hear the “Angels in America” playwright say, “I don’t want to lose my hand in the theater.” Tony Kushner’s civil war

Yet I have to believe that a playwright as sophisticated as Mr. Pierce has made these baffling, disruptive choices meaningfully. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Anna was one of the leading playwrights of her generation. Playwright Anna Yablonskaya: a tribute 2011-01-25T17:35:41Z

And there’s been an uncharacteristic burst in Black-led works: The fall lineup has seven new plays written by Black playwrights, five of whom are making their Broadway debuts. Tony Awards: Broadway hopes to razzle-dazzle after shutdown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

What playwright Maura Campbell is really writing about is the transient nature of marital fidelity and friendship. Fidelity, friendship make up Road on Magnolia's 'Flower Duet' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The playwright himself often emphasized the character’s deep reserves of strength. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Jon is Jonathan Larson, the composer and playwright who died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm at age 35 in 1996 just before his new musical, “Rent,” would become a global smash. Andrew Garfield Can’t Remember Who He Was Before ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

But experimental works by Black playwrights, now beginning to reach wide audiences, have been showing us that for a while. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Jones and the playwright Tim Crouch, the show’s creators and writers, began work on “Don’t Forget the Driver” five years ago, and Brexit is never mentioned. Review: ‘Don’t Forget the Driver’ Is a Comedy for Our Moment 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The playwright Martyna Majok has never met her father, so it was her grandfather who played the paternal role in her life. Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

His most devoted fans sat around the table and tried to think about how to capture what it was like having a playwright and actor on hand to serve as Dungeon Master. Exit the Dungeon Master. Tonys Rehearsal Is Calling. 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

“The reality is it’s kind of an anomalous moment for playwrights, in that it’s actually a monetizable skill,” he said. Playwrights Are Finding ‘Television Money’ Helps Pay the Bills 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

And around the corner from 75½ Bedford is the Cherry Lane Theater, in a former brewery on Commerce Street, which over the years became closely associated with gay playwrights like Edward Albee. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ridley, who is also a filmmaker and a children’s book author, is high on my list of contemporary playwrights these days. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z

Why won't someone take a chance on brilliant young playwrights like David Hare? David Mitchell: A 'new' play by William Shakespeare? I'd prefer a new play by somebody else 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

Several local playwrights have received individual artist grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. Another ‘Pitch Perfect’ part for Ben Platt 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Award-winning playwright Wajahat Ail brilliantly captures the "us versus them" feeling in his new memoir, "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American." The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

When one questioner at Saturday’s event asked, inevitably, why LaBute seemed so obsessed with dysfunctional affairs and men behaving badly, the playwright noted that such human agonies are the currency of drama. Neil LaBute in Chicago: A bad-boy playwright, in profile 2011-01-10T00:36:19Z

The playwright leans left loudly, a lifelong champion of the working class and of underdogs, reliably furious at institutional greed and abuse of power. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

When asked about the differences in style between the two playwrights, Mr. Thureen said, “We used to say: ‘Hannah’s funnier but I’m more poetic.’ ” Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

Three drafts of the Jaws script were produced by Benchley before playwright Howard Sackler was brought in to do uncredited rewrites. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stoppard is the rare playwright — Shaw, Pirandello and Pinter are others — to have earned his own adjective. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Even beyond issues of ethnicity, American playwrights working in Europe have to acclimate themselves to the visions of directors, who often adjust plays’ settings and sometime even alter the texts. Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The Signature Theater will stage world premieres of new works by two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights in 2015-16, the 25th and final season for its founding artistic director, James Houghton. New Plays By Baker, Hudes Will Be Part of Signature Season 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It was presented to representatives from the Belarus Free Theatre by the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. AUDIO: Tom Stoppard: Belarus 'an anomaly' 2011-03-25T08:28:51Z

So for their fall/winter 2019 show, held at Irving Plaza, they enlisted the playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who was absorbed into Mr. Clemens’s creative community pretty much immediately, to write and perform a monologue. The Year of Telfar 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

A resounding success, it is being run again this year, with a script written by Tony-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Justin Lin: If we want more diversity in Hollywood, “the general public has to demand it” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

It was first used to refer to automatons by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek, who repurposed a word that had referred to a system of indentured servitude or serfdom. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Hannah, budding playwright and theatrical impresario, is the eldest of four children, who live with their widowed father in a ramshackle farmhouse. The Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen Peters – review 2012-07-13T21:40:01Z

With the category limited to four plays, at least one playwright will be disappointed. Broadway anticipates Tony Award nomination smiles 2011-05-03T10:27:12Z

And Asa Haynes, 27, an actor turned playwright from London who was recognized for his work “RACISM: an unfocused theater essay,” said the experience was giving his imagination free rein. Jeremy O. Harris’s Writer’s Residency Under the Tuscan Sun 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

“I’m a little unnerved,” the playwright Mac Rogers said. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He recently said that in college, a class screening of the Shange work was his first — and essentially his only — exposure to theater by Black playwrights at the time. Spring Date Set for Broadway Revival of ‘For Colored Girls’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Very roughly, if the playwright, dead or alive, rules in the United States, in Europe it’s the director who is the focus. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

No doubt Northern Irish playwright and Belfast native Rosemary Jenkinson knows her political infighting, the loyalists and Protestants and paramilitary subgroups/crime rings that apparently are still jostling against one another. Two Irish plays, two kicks in the head 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

D’Andrea says the festival is a “barometer project” that lets a theater community see what issues are on the minds of its playwrights. D.C. dancers tapped for ‘Brothers of the Knight’ national tour

“Remember that Miller was a declared Marxist, the right-wing press regarded him as a communist,” explained Christopher Bigsby, the author of a 2009 biography of the playwright. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The playwrights take varied approaches to dramatizing Williams’s stories, which often breathe with the same fervent romanticism that marks his plays. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

This newest version of “Native Son,” adapted by the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, remains set in Chicago but in the present day and with notable tweaks. A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

“You know how you spell playwright as playwright, like you’re building or constructing something?” she asked. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The playwright’s work, often criticized as didactic, fell from fashion by the 1970s. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Still, there’s something oddly rigid and predetermined about the lives onstage, as if the real problem was that they were limited not by society and culture but by the playwright herself. | 'American Sexy': A Quest for Life and Sex. And Doritos. And Sex. 2011-02-03T21:27:44Z

He called his mother, he said, and she told him everything about the playwright. Denzel Washington Honors August Wilson’s Legacy at House Opening 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

What unites these very different playwrights, who are more diverse than usual for an American theater dominated by white men, is a rejection of cookie-cutter tradition. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

This festival has been drifting toward obsolescence in recent years, as more and more regional theaters compete for new work from emerging playwrights. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: The Year in Miscellany 2011-12-15T21:33:31Z

The staging of “Right Left With Heels,” a new play by Polish playwright Sebastian Majewski, has led to friction between the Santa Monica performance space City Garage and the Polish consulate in Los Angeles. Essential Arts & Culture: A controversial Santa Monica play, a terrifying architectural slide, how 'Brexit' affects the arts 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Like the playwright, he proved once and for all that he "did" bleak, too. Richard Briers: the sweetest of men 2013-02-18T14:31:30Z

The better playwrights are inevitably drawn more to questions than answers, but in turbulent times a God-like neutrality can seem like an abdication of responsibility. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Porter's take, scripted by playwright Daniel Pearle, increases the stakes by layering race and class into a story that takes place in Boston. Marlee Matlin and Billy Porter help viewers understand the "Accused" in Fox's new crime series 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

But what I hope audiences will see and more fully understand is that women playwrights aren’t solely interested in or limited to “women’s” issues. Perspective | Second Women’s Voices Theater Festival arrives as #MeToo is in the spotlight 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

In the missive, which was published in Vanity Fair, the screenwriter, producer, and playwright urged his 15-year-old daughter to remember first that she, and others who mourn Donald Trump’s election, are not alone. 'West Wing' creator's letter to daughter about Trump urges action, hope 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

While the playwright had performed various characters in his play over the years at workshops and festivals, he had never played Wisdom before. On Broadway, a playwright becomes an actor, saving a show 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

But “Crooked” earned rave reviews and showed off both a new playwright and a veteran director, Liz Diamond, committed to Ms. Crosby’s vision. Julie Crosby Is All Business at Women?s Project 2010-05-22T06:44:00Z

And, at 21, she was the youngest playwright since Christopher Hampton to have a play transfer to the West End. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

Not too long ago, this sort of casting would have given the playwright pause. Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Topol first performed in 1978, when he was 13, at a gathering of dissidents at the country retreat of the playwright and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z

The producers are playing up the fact that the life of the UK's most famous leftwing playwright is being celebrated in a show directed by an American who is seen as rightwing. Homage to Harold Pinter 2011-08-07T20:31:01Z

He began acting, performed in several Beckett plays while still in prison, and eventually met the playwright in the mid-1970s in Paris. Rick Cluchey Dies at 82; Prison Theater Was His Redemption 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

The playwright surely intended these to catch the audience up in a gripping sequence of reversals and twists, but they progressively drain the energy from the stage. Novel take but predictable revelations in 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

At the time, Smith was running Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre Company and collaborating with a Canadian playwright, but they didn’t stay in touch, because Maxwell was a freelance director based in Ottawa. These two artistic directors collaborate on the stage and in life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

And consider the story of a young Edward Albee slipping W. H. Auden a sheaf of poems, and the poet later saying to him, “Have you thought about becoming a playwright?” Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Jacob G. Padrón, the 38-year-old founder of the Sol Project, an organization that champions Latino playwrights, will assume the top artistic post at Long Wharf in February. Jacob G. Padrón to Lead Long Wharf Theater 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Which playwrights and other writers — novelists, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most? Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Halley Feiffer, now 32, is a playwright and actor living in Brooklyn. For Jenny Allen, She and Her House ‘Were Sort of in This Together’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Before he became a TV writer and playwright, the “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon worked as an intern on Mrs. Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. Kevin Spacey, Star of ‘House of Cards’ and a Bromance With Bill Clinton 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

It was a formative influence on the future playwright. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

So warns “Partnership,” the third Elizabeth Baker play to be staged by the Mint Theater Company, which has long nurtured the works of forgotten playwrights. ‘Partnership’ Review: A Lost Tale of Ambition That Resonates 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

The rapid prattle of some of the playwrights, like Majok, is too hard to catch while you’re taking in the sights. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Women are seriously underrepresented on stage, among playwrights and artistic directors, and in creative roles such as designers and composers. Exit the women, stage left 2012-12-10T19:30:42Z

The play itself is the latest collaboration between the playwright Aleshea Harris and the playwright and director Whitney White, who previously worked together on the acclaimed “What to Send Up When It Goes Down.” The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Based on the Oscar-winning 1998 film, the play sees Orlando play the young Will Shakespeare, here depicted as a budding playwright with crippling writer's block. Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

The unconventional approach was welcomed by Rebecca Miller, the playwright's daughter and a filmmaker whose latest feature, "Maggie's Plan," opened this year. Ivo van Hove brings his stripped-down 'View From the Bridge' to Los Angeles 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Ijames, the playwright, boasts undeniable talent and ambition, even if the latter gets the better of him here. Review | Constellation Theatre’s ‘Moon Man Walk’ stumbles through a cosmic voyage of love and loss 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Unlike some playwrights Mr. Stoppard attends rehearsals as much as possible. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z

Mr. Sondheim liked to think of himself less as a songwriter than as a playwright, albeit one who wrote very short plays and set them to music. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

In “Emilia,” a new play running through Sept. 1 at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the British playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm centers on Emilia Bassano, one of the first professional female writers in Shakespearean England. Who Was Shakespeare’s Muse? A Black Woman, This Play Imagines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

At the same theater, for only $35, you can see the iconoclastic British playwright Philip Ridley’s new dark comedy, “Radiant Vermin.” ‘Hamilton’ Costs Too Much? You’re in Luck 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

He was, after all, an aspiring actor and an occasional playwright. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z

She states the playwright should have spent more time on "the ability to infect others with your mood", but a significant part of the last half of the play is about exactly that. Review: In ‘Empathitrax,’ the Side Effects of Knowing Too Much 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Poets, for me, are closely followed by playwrights, for rather the same reason. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

But not everybody’s using the occasion to puff up the playwright. Shakespeare Didn’t Actually Write That 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

An earlier version of the listing for “‘Farinelli and the King” at the Belasco Theater misspelled the name of the show’s playwright. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

I got kind of mainline drugged as a playwright very early. With the Volt Festival, the Playwright Karen Hartman Comes Home 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

To have any full sense of what’s in store here, you would need to be acquainted with the previous work of Mr. Bradshaw, who is fast becoming the American theater’s most distinctively provocative playwright. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

Despite his prolific output as novelist and playwright, many critics considered Vidal's witty and acerbic essays his best work. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

Although Mr. Lahr’s book is billed as a comprehensive, stand-alone account of Williams’s turbulent life, it treats the playwright’s “Memoirs” as required reading to get the fullest sense of his private voice and exploits. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Broadway failure was seen as a setback for the playwright, whose earlier works like "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Oleanna" are frequently revived. 'The Anarchist' by David Mamet coming to L.A. with Felicity Huffman 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Nikolai V. Kolyada, a playwright and teacher whose theater has made this industrial region a center of modern drama, recalled the applicant as watchful and silent, sitting in the back row with his arms folded. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z

Do you have concerns about being pigeonholed as a trans playwright? Transgender Playwrights: ‘We Should Get to Tell Our Own Stories First’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be an opaque, judging playwright at auditions; I wanted to mirror the actors’ joy, or sadness, and partake of the strange communion between performers and their first audience. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

During a visit to the archives, the playwrights were shown materials highlighting the range of what researchers had uncovered, from early land records to documents relating to a local free African-American who himself owned slaves. Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Last month, Lloyd Webber said the Ward musical, for which he's collaborating with lyricist Don Black and playwright Christopher Hampton, was nearly finished. Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage School of Rock 2013-04-08T12:29:59Z

The playwright James Graham wrote the play specifically for the occasion. Judi Dench Joins Cast of Live Election-Night Play in Britain 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In eras past, when the vast majority of tales unfolding onstage were written by white playwrights about white characters, it took colorblind casting for an actor of color to be seen. Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The knockdown of Ali in the fifteenth round comes off as a moment of grand drama, as if the work of a supreme playwright and as a living horror. The Muhammad Ali Documentary That Gets to the Existential Heart of Boxing 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stess, a recent graduate of the playwriting program at Brooklyn College, is a playwright and director who emphasizes language and theatricality over plot, character and narrative structure. Review: In ‘Heartbreak,’ Talk Is Complicated 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The other is The Wheel from Zinnie Harris, a playwright who always goes for the knotty moral conundrums. This week's new theatre 2011-07-22T23:08:04Z

“Hell Hole” depicts hard-drinking patrons in a Greenwich Village bar — the playwright Eugene O’Neill among them. | Long Island: ‘Rabble-Rousers: Art, Dissent, and Social Commentary,’ at the Heckscher Museum of Art 2013-12-27T21:15:33Z

“Here was this 15th-century medieval play that Shakespeare would have seen,” Godwin said, “and then we have an African American playwright saying what this could mean to us today.” Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

She left behind an American theater whose most exciting and lauded work in recent seasons has often come from black female playwrights. Seven Flames Kindled by the Focused Fire of Ntozake Shange 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, he would tell his mother he was going there to practice the violin, then sneak off to see performances by Ms. Anderson or the avant-garde playwright Robert Wilson. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

A professor of African-American studies at Princeton, Perry is a prolific writer whose work, including her recent award-winning biography of the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, contributes to a fuller understanding of black history and culture. A Black Mother’s Love and Fear for Her Children in a White World 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Miller, 53, is the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and the wife of Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis, with whom she has two teenage sons. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The British actor came to know Pinter and his poems well after he once had to step in for the ailing playwright at a public reading. Edinburgh fringe: A-listers arrive for a renaissance of live theatre 2011-08-06T18:49:17Z

A replica of the playwright’s home office that showcases his manuscripts and book and record collections forms the second. A Hometown Exhibition Will Showcase August Wilson’s Process 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

But as a playwright, he knew that the most poignant drama often radiates from people’s failure to connect with one another, with their aspirations and with their own feelings. An Appraisal: Lanford Wilson?s Losers, Beloved by Their Creator 2011-03-25T07:50:16Z

“I was so jealous of how much they collaborated, the designers and playwright and director, all sitting around a table talking about what the piece was about,” she says. Everyone needs an editor, even choreographers. Now, they’re finally welcoming more voices in the studio. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Persians by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, who actually fought at the Battle of Salamis, imagines the scene in the Persian capital in the wake of the empire’s disastrous defeat. Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians 2014-03-10T14:33:58Z

They also swooped in to save the Bats Theater, a 84-seat nonprofit theater that has long been an incubator for Kiwi playwrights and actors. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z

And Bethesda’s Round House Theatre is in the midst of producing a witty weekly Web series, “Homebound,” each episode written by a different Washington-area playwright and featuring actors well known in the region. Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, Noel introduced modern playwrights like Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco to the Southern California theater scene at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. Founder of San Diego's Old Globe theater dies 2010-04-06T03:19:00Z

In “Marlowe,” somebody quotes Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan poet and playwright. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

In this memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright reflects on family, language and life in North Philadelphia and at Yale. New in Paperback: ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘My Broken Language’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Of the three great French playwrights of the 17th century Corneille is probably the least appreciated. The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z

And this first-rate Taper production — the last scene on a luxury train headed to Sarajevo is perfection — does this intrepid playwright proud. Rajiv Joseph's 'Archduke' at the Taper is an ambitious mix of history, comedy and tragedy 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The more that playwrights are encouraged to process the present, especially with voices as acute and lively as Chisholm’s and Munk’s, the sharper our theater will be. Review | ‘Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies’ repeats its lesson at Mosaic 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Remember: These were thrown together, by playwrights collaborating with performers, within a 24-hour period. In ‘Viral Monologues,’ Theater Mutates Into Online Deliverance 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

British playwright Tom Stoppard and American David Mamet have both re-worked works by the humble, often bespectacled Chekhov, and women revered him for giving them a strong voice by creating complex female characters. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z

I understand why playwrights like Ms. Ziegler and Mr. Colaizzo would be interested in twisty narrative structures and convoluted questions of truth. Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Its latest object: Elizabeth Baker, a neglected English playwright. 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The show is a meditation on interdependence that shows that “relationships don’t exist in a vacuum,” said Meadhbh McHugh, an Irish playwright who adapted five episodes. In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Seattle playwright Leonard D. Goodisman’s new drama “Checkoff in the Sun” is a fragmented, postmodern version of the dysfunctional family play. ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z

The exhibition also hints at the range of Delacroix’s endeavors — along with 25 paintings and 4 drawings,  there are 16 lithographs illustrating Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” tributes to the playwright whom Delacroix so admired. In Transit Blog: In Alabama, a Wide-Ranging Delacroix Show 2014-05-07T16:00:10Z

The play itself is described as being about “a playwright who is misled by a historian of white history into believing that Alexander Hamilton was an abolitionist,” and his path to learning Hamilton’s true story. Ishmael Reed’s Play Challenging ‘Hamilton’ Will Get Reading 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

The play, written by actor and playwright Kevin Broccoli, was performed over 30 times at the Epic Theater Company in Cranston, Rhode Island to positive reviews. James Franco shuts down play about James Franco 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Few playwrights match Mr. Lonergan in making confident art out of such constantly shifting uncertainty. Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Tell Lies to Live by in ‘Lobby Hero’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Also involved is the Olivier award-winning playwright Bola Agbaje, whose Parking Wars depicts a stand-off between Muslims and Christians in south-east London. 10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen 2012-08-29T09:14:00Z

After all, Bono said, they had “some of the best days of our lives daydreaming about what you could do on a stage” with Ms. Taymor and their fourth collaborator, the playwright Glen Berger. Superstars Never Guessed the Size of ?Spider-Man? Challenges 2011-06-13T22:15:25Z

In that sense, O’Hara — who aside from his brilliant direction of contemporary works like “Slave Play” and “BLKS” is a mordant comic playwright himself — is right to reimagine the genre expectations of “Raisin.” Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

A playwright and former lawmaker, Csurka is known for his anti-Semitic speeches and articles. Budapest mayor defends theater director nomination 2011-10-13T18:05:08Z

As undergraduates, Sayers and a few friends formed what they jokingly termed the Mutual Admiration Society, or M.A.S., a clique of aspiring poets and playwrights who critiqued one another’s drafts over hot cocoa. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

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

The graph of a playwright's life – especially in the commercially driven US – seems to be that, as the author gets older, scripts lose energy and audiences lose interest. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z

“I really believe if I wasn’t a playwright, I’d be called a schizophrenic,” Mr. Wishna quoted her as saying in his book. Corinne Jacker, Obie Award-Winning Playwright, Is Dead at 79 2013-01-25T01:10:30Z

That would be Oscar Wilde — the poet, playwright and bon vivant, who in the face of unrelenting persecution remained dauntlessly witty, impeccably stylish and morally fixed. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Among those who responded to her on Twitter was the playwright Douglas Lyons, whose “Chicken & Biscuits” was staged on Broadway last year. For Broadway’s ‘1776’ Revival, the Drama Is Offstage 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Seldes had a long and fruitful professional relationship with Albee, the celebrated American playwright and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Marian Seldes, celebrated stage actress and interpreter of Albee, dies at 86

I’d like to see more playwrights follow Ibsen’s lead and raise hackles. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

"He left an enormous amount of love behind. It's a terrible loss," said Jose Rivera, a playwright whose work has been produced by Hoffman's LAByrinth Theatre Company. Hoffman's NYC funeral attracts Hollywood stars 2014-02-07T20:05:02Z

Now this 46-year-old playwright and director is playing with puppets: fish, fowl, an ogre, rabbits, a cat. Director?s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat 2010-09-30T21:18:00Z

And a few of the playwrights, who are all younger than 60, have created characters that resemble one of their parents. 5 Monologues, Each a Showcase for Asian American Actors Over 60 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

There are some playwrights – Chekhov and Beckett among them – who I think you can only truly appreciate once you've experienced the compromises and disappointments of adult life. Lyn Gardner on critics changing their minds 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z

The playwright doesn’t say anything we don’t already know, but the playful way he says it helps us to take in a wisdom that no technological breakthrough will ever render obsolete. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The playwright toys with a number of dramatic possibilities but never finds conviction. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

With this unique and strangely bewitching work Mr. Greenspan, a quirky downtown actor and an avant-garde playwright, proves himself once again to be a theatrical conjurer of rare gifts. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

Mem Membership includes advance notice of the $20 tickets for all LCT3 productions, which showcase the work of new playwrights, directors and designers. ArtsBeat: Lincoln Center Theater Entices a Younger Crowd 2011-05-17T21:08:02Z

Another work by Cefaly, a D.C.-based playwright, was produced last season in the city’s Women’s Voices Theatre Festival; this world premiere at Signature is one of the byproducts of that sprawling venture. Top 10 choices (possibly) in the new theater season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, he was listed as associate producer when Merrick introduced Woody Allen to Broadway as a playwright in “Don’t Drink the Water” and as an actor in “Play It Again, Sam.” Biff Liff, Broadway Manager and Powerhouse Agent, Dies at 96 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Jane Fonda plays a fictionalized version of the playwright and author Lillian Hellman in this historical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Thing About Pam’ and the Critics Choice Awards 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

But first they must push aside intrusive elements of contemporary times, as the playwright Martin Crimp’s inventive libretto makes explicit. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Sandy Wilson, the British composer and playwright whose hit musical “The Boy Friend” starred Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut, died on Wednesday in Taunton, England. Sandy Wilson, Composer and Writer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ Dies at 90 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Nice girls do not finish first in Seattle playwright Victoria Stewart's trenchant and entertaining topical drama, "Hardball." Review: 'Hardball' play hits home about media pundits run amok 2011-03-10T01:30:46Z

The playwright, Alexander Harrington, is the son of Michael Harrington, the socialist and political scientist whose book “The Other America” is credited with galvanizing Johnson to declare his War on Poverty. Theater Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ a Conflicted Lyndon B. Johnson 2013-08-13T21:45:35Z

It’s also hard to ignore the irony that in the Cradle — the state-of-the-art, 200-seat theater designed to produce new works — Arena still keeps playwrights on a short leash. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’

It did not matter to boycott advocates, who included a number of American playwrights, directors and actors, that Grossman is himself a vocal critic of Benjamin Netanyahu, the hard-line prime minister. An anguished cadre of Israeli playwrights looks to America to stage its work 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

A Cavalier For Milady, one of Williams' final works, made its stage debut nearly 30 years after the playwright's death. Cavalier attitude 2011-04-06T08:07:56Z

The piece is, thankfully, directed by the playwright, since another fever dream would be one fever dream too many. MCA's 'Terminus' takes us to death and back again 2011-03-03T18:57:49Z

American playwright David Mamet expressed a similar view when he talked to this newspaper in 1999 after making a film of The Winslow Boy. Film of The Deep Blue Sea returns playwright Terence Rattigan to the spotlight 2011-08-20T23:06:28Z

This despot’s death may be inspired by the Spanish Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega’s “Fuenteovejuna.” Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z

In its reinvigorated New Play Program, Seattle Repertory Theatre will help playwrights develop incubating projects through workshops and commissions this spring. Arts briefs: New plays at the Rep and free outdoor Shakespeare 2011-02-03T23:14:03Z

Saturday’s event at the St. James was a delightful demonstration of tap artistry by Glover and of flawless comic timing by Lane playing a theater-starved New Yorker as conjured by playwright Paul Rudnick. Perspective | I wondered what it would be like to be vaccinated and back in a theater. My panic lifted as soon as the lights went down. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

The performance was dedicated to the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet, who was born on Dec. 19, 1910, and was an idol of Ms. Smith’s. Patti Smith, in Surprise Appearance at MoMA, Says What’s on Her Mind 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

I’m still at it as a playwright, actor & filmmaker. Your First Theater Crush 2013-08-21T16:24:20Z

In an interview with Oprah Daily, playwright and producer Jacobs-Jenkins talked about his struggle to bring "Kindred" to the screen, which took "about a decade." Why did it take so long to adapt Octavia Butler? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Stein said in statement on Monday that the school would perform a new version “recrafted by some members of the cast, with the playwright’s permission and generous cooperation.” ArtsBeat: Following Complaints, Dalton School To Stage Revised ‘Modern Millie’ 2014-01-27T21:37:17Z

Mr. Horowitz founded Theater for a New Audience in 1979 to presents the work of Shakespeare and other classic and contemporary playwrights. ArtsBeat: With $10 Million Gift, Theater for a New Audience Home Gets a Name 2013-09-05T19:20:34Z

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian On a grey afternoon in early January, playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz sat down to sort through her tax receipts with Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life for company. Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I had evil thoughts as a child' 2013-01-20T19:59:01Z

Devotees will watch the playwright and director in action over five days. Ayckbourn fans pay to go backstage 2013-07-23T13:03:04Z

At an award panel lunch, Marian Seldes, another brilliant Albee player, once explained in a discussion of an iconoclastic work that a playwright creates a universe and gives that universe a language all its own. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

FastHorse is a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation of South Dakota, and Second Stage said she would be the first female Native American playwright produced on Broadway. ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ Sends Up America. Now It’s Coming to Broadway. 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

I was also interested in 13P's effort to redefine success for the playwright: success, in this case, I think, is simply getting the play up. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Time and a Place to Experiment 2012-07-20T17:41:10Z

Spencer, who sometimes went by her married name Elizabeth Rusher, died Sunday night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to playwright Craig Lucas, who adapted “Light In the Piazza” for the stage. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

His Ink Has Dried Up, but Look at All the Blood In his sporadically funny, blood-splattered comedy “Seven Psychopaths,” the playwright turned movie director Martin McDonagh looks to turn writer’s block into grim comedy. Movie Review: ‘Seven Psychopaths,’ Written by Martin McDonagh 2012-10-11T22:19:06Z

“There’s something very honest, very handmade about the machines that he builds,” said Jeffrey M. Jones, a playwright and performance curator, speaking by phone. Joseph Silovsky Revisits Sacco and Vanzetti 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Do we hold women playwrights to a double standard? Noises off: Problems of recognition 2010-05-21T14:58:00Z

But even in the play’s sporadically insightful passages, it tends to be the playwright’s voice we hear. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z

The performer, playwright, composer and director Mike Iveson is a human being. Review: ‘The Tear Drinkers,’ Where There’s Little to Separate People and Aliens 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Were I an actor, I’m not sure how helpful I’d find Adler on the other playwrights under discussion here, though there are some lovely and precise instructions to students attempting particular roles. Books of The Times: ‘Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights,’ Lectures 2012-08-30T14:03:07Z

It will be followed on Sept. 16 by playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag," about modern life in London and starring and written by her. Woody Allen's Amazon series gets fall debut date, title 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

That same year she married playwright Felix Jackson, 20 years her senior. Early Hollywood superstar Deanna Durbin dies at 91 2013-05-02T15:36:08Z

At 23, Mr. Larson aspired to be a Broadway actor and playwright, and he hesitated to accept the role for fear of being typecast. Jack Larson, a Playwright Better Known as Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman,’ Dies at 87 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

I also wanted to keep in my wheelhouse as a playwright that sense of containment, of three characters talking without a lot of pyrotechnics. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Thriller Director Who’s Afraid of Blood 2014-04-24T17:00:49Z

It is named after Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, who lived from 1828-1906. German composer Heiner Goebbels wins ISBN prize 2012-03-20T17:56:10Z

Under the leadership of O.S.F.’s director of literary development and dramaturgy, Lue Morgan Douthit, more than half of the selected playwrights will be women, and more than half will be writers of color. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Lonergan’s history with Hollywood began, oddly enough, when, as a promising but unknown playwright, he made a very cleareyed, even craven, business decision — which wound up paying off very well. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z

A great, great playwright and an American treasure. Review: ‘The Roads to Home’ Offers Gossip and Insanity Most Genteel 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Each of the expected contenders for the best new play Tony marks the writer’s Broadway debut — and each of the playwrights is American. 2017 Tony Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A legal assistant from Australia has won the 2011 Yale Drama Series award for emerging playwrights. Winner of Yale playwright competition announced 2011-03-22T17:53:11Z

But in the race for best new play, all the playwrights were American. The Tonys' battle for Broadway 2010-06-14T21:00:00Z

A playwright battles his demons not on the therapist’s couch but on the page and the stage in “The Atmosphere of Memory,” a new play by David Bar Katz at the Bank Street Theater. | 'The Atmosphere of Memory': ?The Atmosphere of Memory? at Bank Street Theater - Review 2011-10-31T02:02:00Z

But the back garden of Moat Brae, a late Georgian villa in the rural town of Dumfries, became more than a playground for the aspiring novelist and playwright. Peter Pan's Neverland could become forever-land 2011-08-02T15:07:03Z

In their attempt to have their characters overcome that adversity, the playwrights often face the same narrative hurdle: How can these stories end? Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Too many playwrights who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement have been forgotten. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, she has worked with playwrights to shape not only her show’s scripts but bracingly original songs as well, in idioms and character voices as wide-ranging as the musical genres she references. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Offstage, Ms. Katigbak worries about family, too — the actors and playwrights and directors who are her artistic kin. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Who is the most exciting English playwright to emerge in the last five years? Playwright Alistair McDowall: Anything can happen 2013-06-05T07:53:11Z

Still, Gilman is a rare playwright who actually seems to live in the real world, and who combines a committed social conscience with an ability to create real and involving characters. Women Against the Machine: From Machinal to Luna Gale 2014-01-31T20:50:50Z

Here, the playwright is involved in no such thing. Review: ‘Dry Powder,’ a High-Finance Comedy Drama 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Yet he is also a prolific author and playwright, an activist and family man. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Rux, who also is a novelist, playwright and musician, said that while writing the poem, he kept returning to images of a young Lewis on his family farm. In images and words of rebirth, a poignant tribute to civil rights giants John Lewis and C.T. Vivian 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

As a playwright, he has never been a doily maker. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z

“The residency that Arena gives is really to support the work of the playwright,” Strand said. Curtain falling on American Century Theater, with 2014-2015 its final season

"She was one if those figures that changed the face of British theatre but it's horrific how many people haven't heard of her," says the playwright. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z

Fitzcarraldo Editions is also the British publisher for Jon Fosse, a Norwegian author and playwright, who is regularly among bookmakers’ favorites for the award. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

"I'm still basically the same playwright with the same misguided management skills," he said, with a laugh. NBC risks parental blowback with 'The Slap' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

At a moment when presidential hopefuls are flooding the Iowa cornfields — with many of them demonizing refugees like Francesca — the playwright sees particular resonance in her journey. 'The Bridges of Madison County' crosses into lush terrains, composer promises 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

But it provides a sharply legible index to the mind and method of an original playwright who refuses to embrace easy or consoling answers to the puzzles called human beings. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Now the playwright is looking to the future. The searing, timely play ‘Pass Over’ leads Broadway’s return 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

But her life has taken a definitive turn from lower on the bill to the top — as a playwright. Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

When the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault was barely out of his teens, he wrote a farce that tickled most of London. Four Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Zamorano, who is also a playwright, works as director of the Community Literacy Center at Occidental College. Désirée Zamorano on the lives of L.A.'s Latinas and 'The Amado Women' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The comic and "Daily Show" regular Black is a practiced playwright, and this recent look at a Cincinnati wedding, says Beattie, "is a very funny family comedy, from his particular, mad imagination." ACT Theatre unveils 2012 season 2011-08-24T05:14:25Z

One of the show’s lead writers was Amy Herzog, a playwright who had been obsessed with “A Doll’s House” since she was a teenager and had written a homage to it with her play “Belleville.” Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

But then to some degree for Scottish writers, it's always felt a little bit cheeky that unquestionably the greatest Scottish play was written by the great English playwright. 2010-02-10T16:52:00Z

Young playwrights — Ms. Nanako Winkler is 34 — often try to show us everything they can do, but I am more impressed by everything they know. Review: In ‘God Said This,’ a Hot Mess of a Daughter Heads Home 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

When Mary Laws set out to create “Monsterland,” her new socially conscious horror anthology series on Hulu, she drew inspiration from the concise, unnerving fables of the British playwright Caryl Churchill. Little Bursts of Fright: The Horror Anthology Is Having a Heyday 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

This voice, the playwright reminds us, is more or less the opposite of the Asian one of stereotype, as in: “Herro! Prease to meeting you! I so Asian!” Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The task of striding out of the shadows of these estimable achievements would perforce require a playwright and a star with firm beliefs that they have something fresh to say. Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels made ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ their mission 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Last week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it had commissioned thirty-six playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Billie Whitelaw, the English actress who became both acolyte and muse to the playwright Samuel Beckett and one of the foremost interpreters of his austere and deeply unsettling work, died on Sunday in London. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t expect a playwright not to attend the rehearsals of his play,” he told Melody Maker in 1973. Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ben Brantley Since being born again is what happens every night at the theater, as a self-contained world is freshly reinvented onstage, it seems fitting that playwrights should be fascinated by notions of rebirth. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z

The playwright is the youngest of this year’s fellows. ‘Now my life will change’: Meet the 2016 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In 1994, about a decade before the playwright’s death, Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” opened in New York and closed after two months. Theater Review: In the City of Second Chances 2010-10-19T11:34:00Z

In 1947 playwright and wit, Noel Coward was a fellow guest. Romania's ex-king hits his 3rd UK royal wedding 2011-04-27T13:18:13Z

“We’ve been talking about this for centuries,” said Amy Evans, a black New York playwright, in a conversation after the show. Grey area 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

It was the season that Alice Childress, the author of “Trouble in Mind,” finally made it to Broadway, 66 years after a first attempt and 27 years after the no-longer-overlooked playwright’s death. The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

LA Broads Staged readings of short plays and sketches by local female playwrights. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 8-15: 'Helen Lawrence,' Karen Finley and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

Working against the clock — “I had one week until the deadline,” she recalled — the playwright hit a wall. Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The playwright made only occasional treks back to his hometown until his last years. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

In this visceral show, the playwright Heidi Schreck attempts to recreate a speech she delivered in American Legion halls as a teenager. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The playwright remembered a frantic call from Polanski asking whether it was all right to move a stage direction from one page to another of the screenplay. For 'Venus in Fur' author, working with Roman Polanski was 'heaven' 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

The playwright and filmmaker arrives at the Atlantic Theater with his latest play, a London hit, directed by Matthew Dunster. What’s New in NYC Theater 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In this scene Ms. Danner plays Anna, a veteran actress who can’t hide her disappointment after learning from her son Elliot, played by Mr. Lange, that he wants to be a playwright. In Performance: Blythe Danner and Eric Lange of 'The Country House' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. Rarely seen Tennessee Williams story set in post-WWII Italy 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

And they inspire performers, playwrights and directors who come after him. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ticket sales soared as the awards piled up: the Outer Circle for outstanding new playwright, the Drama Critics’ Circle and the New York Theater Club for best play, the Tony, the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Frank D. Gilroy, Who Had Smash Debut With ‘Subject Was Roses,’ Dies at 89 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Childress was supposed to be the first Black female playwright on Broadway, with a play critiquing the racism and misogyny of the theater industry. Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The play is not lampooning Mary or the religion, she says, but is a playwright's lyrical imagining. Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z

But now, by telling their story in “Moonlight,” both the playwright and the director implicitly challenge us to ask: What could men like Blue be, if they were born into different circumstances? From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a territory playwright Brooks clearly knows well and, despite some labored plotting, charts with squirm-inducing authenticity amid her comic hyperbole. 'Family Planning' at the Colony Theatre fails to dig deep 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Ruby’s part of the show, scripted by the playwright Harrison David Rivers, doesn’t answer that question. Review: ‘Broadbend, Arkansas,’ Tangled in Its Own Tale 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

This production from the Acting Company, which opened on Thursday at the 59E59 Theaters, directed by Michael Wilson, features works from six notable playwrights, based on tales mostly written by Williams in the 1940s. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

William Inge and Tennessee Williams were two of midcentury America’s greatest playwrights. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Israeli playwright Motti Lerner, author of “The Murder of Isaac,” “Pangs of the Messiah” and the explosive “The Admission,” reunites with Mosaic Theater Artistic Director Ari Roth for his latest play “After the War.” In uncovering tensions, productions expose humor and society’s fears 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z