Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sizwe Banzi is Dead, by the South African playwright Athol Fugard, opened to ecstatic reviews is New York. The performances of the two back South African actors who make up the cast came in for particularly glowing praise, but some critics felt the play treats the subject of apartheid too lightly, sidestepping the harshness and brutality. Still, this is definitely a play worth seeing. At the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St. In Boston, tonight at 8 and tomorrow...
...Dakin is the greatest eccentric in America and maybe in the world," says Playwright Tennessee Williams of his brother, Dakin Williams, 56. Tennessee, 64, who has his own unconventional side, might have a point. Though Attorney Dakin already has a string of Illinois political defeats to his credit, including a 650,000-vote loss to Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1974, he is now running for Governor against Incumbent Dan Walker and former northern Illinois District Attorney Jim Thompson. "I think I'm almost a shoo-in," asserts Williams, a conservative Democrat whose platform calls for busing teachers instead...
...farce and moral fervor in Humboldt's Gift. Charles Citrine, the book's late middle-aged hero, is-like Bellow-a dedicated resident and booster of Chicago. The son of Jewish immigrants, he has made a name for himself as a Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer, essayist and playwright. LIFE has commissioned him to write an intimate article on Bobby Kennedy. The French government has honored him with an Order of the Chevalier, which entitles him to wear a green ribbon in his lapel. As it turns out, the decoration is about as prestigious as the alligator on a tennis...
...Sometime Friend is a new play by a Boston playwright, Lealie Hurley, and has a local setting. Two friends bump into each other, a common situation around here, and--another common situation--one of them can't place the other. In the course of trying to figure out just who one of these people is, the play explores all the different personas he has adopted, concentrating heavily on the lost idealism of the 60s. Presented by the People's Theatre of Cambridge, 1253 Cambridge St. In human square, performances through August 31, Friday and Sunday at 7:30 and Saturday...
Died. Hyman Kraft, 76, playwright and author; of complications arising from injuries suffered when he was struck by a bicycle; in Manhattan. Kraft wrote his first play at 33, later collaborated with Theodore Dreiser on the screenplay for An American Tragedy and became a journeyman playwright of comedies and musicals, among them Café Crown and Top Banana, a caustic, dizzy homage to comedy that Phil Silvers made into...