Word: playwright
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...written in English rather than his native Russian. But Adapter Michael Frayn has achieved the satisfying illusion of one in Wild Honey, a dizzyingly funny romantic farce culled from Chekhov's untitled, and by most estimates unproducible, first extant play. Frayn is best known in the U.S. as the playwright of Noises Off, a slapstick send-up of British sex comedy, and Benefactors, a regretful recollection of the relations between two young professional couples. Wild Honey marries the wry and the rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time prefigures Chekhov's later plays, notably The Cherry...
...case before an immigration appeals board. But in a federal lawsuit she is pressing a separate challenge to McCarran-Walter itself. Her suit has been joined by PEN American Center, a writers' advocacy group, and eight prominent American authors, including Novelists Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and Alice Walker and Playwright Arthur Miller...
...producers would consider an auspicious beginning. But it turned out to be just that in the case of Legends, starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing as a pair of feuding veteran stage actresses. Without benefit of critical acclaim or a stint on the Great White Way, the comedy by Playwright James Kirkwood (A Chorus Line) has grossed nearly $10 million since starting its 23-city run last January. This January the stars will end their touring in Palm Beach. "I was 73 the other day," says Martin. "My body doesn't have the resilience. People think it does because that...
...century style set-design and costumes, careful musical synchronization, and nearly 30 scene changes--there is also a film version fresh in everyone's minds; unfair comparisons would be very easy to make. But director Nicholas Weir silences the doubters with a powerful show, one that highlights all of playwright Shaffer's wickedly good language...
That a half-century of American literary studies could be recalled for a defective platitude is a contingency that would appeal to Playwright Eugene Ionesco. A major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon...