Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bardsmanship is a game with no losers. As the new, computerized Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare proves, every critic and defender of the Nixon Administration can find barbs and shields in the blank verse. The playwright has some thing for everyone: politics and religion, sin and redemption-if it is in the human condition, it is in the Shakespearean canon. Most of the year, Shakespeare resides quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns...
Seven years in prison, including a spell at New York's Sing Sing for armed robbery, inspired Miguel Pinero, 27, to become Broadway's first Puerto Rican playwright. For writing Short Eyes (TIME, April 8), based on his experiences behind bars, Pinero walked away with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted...
This, then, is a boy's rehearsal for what the playwright man would do in As You Like It. But what a work of theatrical grace Michael Bawtree has fashioned out of all the artifice! The obvious temptation would be to bury the verbiage under antics. But good lines are scrupulously respected, the hyperboles cast off like arpeggios. Without missing a joke, Bawtree plays for something subtler-a humor that permits, above all, modulations into the lyrical, his favorite key. In the finely staged entrances and exits, the elegant circlings of wits and their ladies, here is theater...
...sources also said that Albert H. Nickerson '33, a member of the Corporation, and noted playwright Lillian Hellman are both "very strong candidates" for the coveted awards...
...Arena Stage company gives an ensemble performance of lustrous brilliance. In tempo, mood and nuance, John Dillon's direction shows Chekhovian sensitivity. The evening provides one of those rare instances when bright rays of honor shine on the playwright, the audience and the theater...