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...audience that feels most refreshed. This off-Broadway show--which opened at Manhattan's Second Stage Theatre in October and has been such a hit that it's planning a move to Broadway in February--is theater as primal as it is charming. Zimmerman likes to say the playwright and audience are "collaborating in a dream," and she has brought some of humanity's oldest dreams--Greek myths--to shimmering life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gods in the Wading Pool | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

David Mamet has emerged as the most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren?...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mamet Swindle Fails to Entice in the Ex | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

DIED. ANTHONY SHAFFER, 75, lawyer turned thriller writer; of a heart attack; in London. Shaffer, whose playwright brother Peter wrote Amadeus, was best known for Sleuth, a brilliant, twisted portrait of double crossing, manipulation and revenge that won a Tony in 1971 and was made into a film starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson published interviews last week with two students writing creative theses in the English department —a poet and a playwright. This week The Crimson talked to a novelist and an author of short stories. Made up of prose and broken into chapters, these students’ theses look more like their non-creative counterparts. But because their works will be personal creations they are more similar to poems and plays...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creative English Theses, Part II | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

...would be “sanctimonious to say, ‘I cannot go on with my art after this,’” said Guare, the Tony-award winning playwright of “Six Degrees of Separation.” “All we can do is just keep doing what we’re doing...

Author: By Rebecca M. Milzoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Panel Grapples With Role of Art After Sept. 11 | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

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