Word: playwrighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SOMETIMES YOU WONDER whether life didn't indenture itself to Shakespeare back in the 16th century--in a reversal of the playwright's usual servitude to life. The turn of his phrase chafes human nature like a beggar come in from the cold of the inarticulate actual world. And if something as grand as life once went beggaring to Shakespeare, then it's hardly surprising that so many playwrights and actors have also looked to him for inspiration. John Guare and Mel Shapiro found that the Two Gentlemen of Verona were still around in 1971, only they happened...
Married. Julie Harris, 51, touring as the reclusive Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst; and Walter Erwin Carroll, 54, an occasional playwright and a friend of Harris' for 30 years; both for the third time; in Sterling, Va. When nominated for the third of her four Tony Awards, Harris said to an interviewer: "If I had to do it again, I would like to have met a man and just been his helpmeet and nothing else...
...Playwright's Dream...
...Point, Manhattan's Phoenix Theater has taken a gallant gamble on a playwright who extracts the dagger of pain from his own chest and plunges it into the playgoer's heart. T.E.K...
There may be a mystical streak in this young playwright, but the stage is mighty barren soil for mysticism. He is certainly haunted by the long scorching annals of the Jewish experience, to which Ribman ascribes survival with suffering in a mixture too complex for revelation. His social canvas is like that of a Talmudic scholar taking a wry inventory of the sustained mockery of human existence...