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Diary is the brainchild of Atlanta-based playwright Tyler Perry; the movie is adapted from his play of the same name. Perry’s work is immensely popular; Newsweek estimates that his stage productions have grossed over $70 million, but almost exclusively in the black community...
...collaboration of the hyper-verbal playwright Shaplin and the movement-oriented theater company is a union of diametric opposites. Though the play does have some very physical moments, “we also have this really intense nouveau-Shakespearean language which mixes a lot of high poetry with vicious insults; you have to take a big breath before you start talking...
...Interest in Tragedy Most assessments of Death of a Salesman, by playwright Arthur Miller [APPRECIATION, Feb. 21], called the drama a masterpiece. Yet when the play opened on Broadway 56 years ago and drew rave reviews, TIME's critic was rather less enthusiastic. The piece we published, however, gave insight into Miller's point of view...
...Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success ... Now a solid front-ranker among young U.S. playwrights, Arthur Miller took last week's success with caution. WHEN A FRIEND SAID THAT HE HAD 'ARRIVED,' MILLER PROTESTED: 'YOU NEVER ARRIVE...
Spelling Bee started life as a play (originally called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E) by an off-off-Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...