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That is the premise of The Piano Lesson, which opened last week at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. The lesson of the title -- an instruction in morality rather than scales or fingering -- makes the work the richest yet of dramatist August Wilson, whose first three Broadway efforts, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards...
DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting in this autobiographical work, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
What is the most influential drama in American literary history? As plausible a candidate as any is The Glass Menagerie. Since Tennessee Williams brought his family confessional to Broadway in 1945, virtually every U.S. dramatist of substance has revealed himself in a guilt-ridden memory play, from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's long-concealed Long Day's Journey into Night to Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Into those ranks comes Michael Weller. Heretofore best known for Moonchildren and the screenplay of Hair, both valedictories...
SELECTED LETTERS OF EUGENE O'NEILL (Yale University; $35). He was the first American dramatist to win international acclaim. His private correspondence records his slow disenchantment with the footlights...
SELECTED LETTERS OF EUGENE O'NEILL (Yale University; $35). He was the first American dramatist to win international acclaim. His private correspondence records his slow disenchantment with the footlights...