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...When playwright Frank D. Gilroy made his Broadway debut in 1964 with The Subject Was Roses, winning the Tony, Pulitzer and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best play, he seemed to be starting a glittering career. But he has never come close to that glory since. Presumably that is why he has returned to the Roses characters in Any Given Day, his first play in 14 years to reach Broadway. The new work is worthy enough, with more characters and a richer plot than Roses, and is handsomely mounted and capably performed by a cast including Sada Thompson...
Works by both the country's most successful veteran playwright and its most idolized newcomer opened on Broadway. Neil Simon returned to the stage with Laughter on the 23rd Floor, a nostalgic comedy based on his days as a writer for Sid Caesar. The other debut, Perestroika, is the second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-prizewinning age-of-AIDS epic, Angels in America. Critics were far kinder to Kushner than to Simon...
Despite tremendous anxiety and stress, people with AIDS must have hope for the future, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Tony Kushner told a crowd of about 100 yesterday at Leverett Old Library...
Other plays by Kushner include "A Bright Room Called Day" and an adaptation of the 19th century French playwright Pierre Cornielle's "Illusion." Currently, Kushner is working on a play about the 17th century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer...
Such a play could easily degenerate into an endless debate, going over all too familiar terrain, about the nation's thorniest ethical issue. But just when it seems that is about to happen, playwright Jane Martin turns out to have plenty to say about the antifeminist anger that may underlie much activism. The lead captor, a windy minister, appears to have trouble separating his concern for unborn children from his devotion to patriarchal authority. He keeps referring to himself as "the head of the family." He condescends unashamedly to the day-to-day keeper, a grandmotherly woman who is trained...