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...DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage - often using African gospel and jazz - Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about aids by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...playwright, poet and novelist, Soyinka is considered one of contemporary Africa’s greatest literary voices. In 1986, he became the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
Before Charles and Di or Tom and Nicole or Britney and that guy standing next to her in all the wedding photos, there were Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, the real celebrity couple of the past century. America's best-known egghead playwright married Hollywood's leading sex symbol in 1956, accompanied by a media frenzy. The public couldn't get enough of this owl-and- the-pussycat marriage, which seemed to unravel in all the predictable ways. Miller's creative output dried up as he tended to Monroe's career; she grew increasingly depressed and dependent on drugs. They...
...emits the minute he enters her room. Together with After the Fall, Finishing the Picture completes a portrait of a marriage that can take its place beside Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as one of the most ruthless and revealing in American theater history. For this celebrated, embattled playwright just turned 89, Marilyn is still an inspiration...
Which do you prefer: performing a student’s work or producing a work by a famous, off-campus playwright...