Word: playwrightes
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...COUNTRY'S GOOD. Does art enoble the lowest wretch? Are convicts and their captors kindred spirits under the skin? Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker says so in this didactic, sporadically touching Broadway drama, staged without subtlety in a transfer from the Hartford Stage Company...
...life. It is her bid for serious consideration as a multimedia artiste who is more attuned to the aesthetic ideas of Martha Graham (whom she plans to play in a forthcoming film) and Isadora Duncan than to her contemporary pop-star peers. To recast a line of her favorite playwright, David Mamet: "She's eating at the Big Table now." Quoth Circe...
...cast of The Three Sisters functioned well as a unit yet established distinctive characters. Rather than being overwhelmed by the playwright, as so many directors of Chekhov seem to be, Cross displays confidence in her own vision. She combines traditional domestic vignettes with innovative staging to communicate a feeling first of warmth and then of alienation...
...Among the people I like to think of as useful role models are author- educator W.E.B. Dubois, civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, South African leader Nelson Mandela, novelist Toni Morrison. And poet Phillis Wheatley: she was a genius. She learned English when she was about seven, and by the age of 15 she was publishing poems as sophisticated as any American who was publishing in the 18th century. We need to make that common knowledge, as common as the fact that Michael Jordan can do the triple quadruple backward dunk...
...plagiarizes an old doctoral dissertation about climatology in Antarctica. That has little to do with a strange dinner party that is suffused with adulterous currents leading nowhere, and that at any rate seems to have no bearing on the narrator's decision to abandon particle physics and become a playwright...