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...when he was still struggling to find his voice as a playwright, Tom Williams, 27, read a newspaper account of four inmates at a Pennsylvania prison who died after being left to roast inside a superheated chamber dubbed "Klondike." The story spurred him to expand a one-act play he had written about prison life to a full-length drama he titled Not About Nightingales. Williams entered the play in a contest for young dramatists held by the famed Group Theatre. (Since he was two years over the age limit, he lied about his birth date and signed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Sweatbox Named Desire | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...undergraduate, Franken says he was involved in Dunster House Theater and also ran a Coffee House at Currier House, which included stand-up comedy and one-act plays...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Funnyman Franken Got Start in Stand-Up | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

Except that "movie" doesn't seem quite the right term for it. At best, it's a rather murkily photographed one-act play, confined to a single setting and to real time by writer-director James Toback. Indeed, if he had developed his situation--two girls discover that their guy has been blithely having his way with both of them simultaneously--he might have given us a chic, updated version of one of those old-fashioned farces that once upon a time regaled Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And As For The Movie... | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Israeli one-act plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: listings | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...Israeli one-act plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: listings | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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