Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert McLaughlin, 65, playwright, short-story writer, novelist (The Walls of Heaven, The Notion of Sin), former McCall 's managing editor (1938-43) and a deft, wryly humorous TIME writer for more than two decades (1948-69); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Miami...
...Playwright Thornton Wilder is the good old white magician who once had us all handing chairs down theater aisles to feed a stage fire and save the suburb of Excelsior, N.J., from the ice age. He successfully launched Noah's ark from the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into...
Married. Neil Simon, 46, habitually successful playwright (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys); and Marsha Mason, 31, screen actress (Blume in Love) and one of eight cast members of The Good Doctor (the latest Simon show); both for a second time; in Manhattan...
...British Playwright David Storey's avocations is painting, and as a dramatist he depicts still lifes. His detractors emphasize the "still"-nothing happens in a Storey play. His admirers emphasize the "life"-everything that constitutes the experience of a lifetime has been distilled into two hours of stage time. When playgoers choose up sides, their vehemence, all by itself, testifies to one thing: we are in the presence of a playwright of consequence...
...weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest poet of the Soviet era. Mayakovsky doesn't seem to have been much of a playwright, however...