Word: playwrighting
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...bought or built great houses, collected art, stayed only in the best suites in the best hotels. In 1935 he divorced his wife of 12 years (and the mother of his two sons) to marry one of the most glamorous women in America--the already acclaimed editor and playwright, later Congresswoman and ambassador, Clare Boothe. Their marriage was a troubled one from the start, a union of two ambitious, image-conscious people who did not always like each other very much and who were often apart. But they played their public roles as a dazzling and powerful couple...
...general public is going to see this as another Puerto Rican with a knife, and they will come out with that view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show has even spawned a counterplay: Fred Newman, a playwright and director who was once Agron's therapist, has written and staged an off-Broadway drama on the same subject, Salvador (Fictional Conversations); among its characters is one Paul Simon...
...overshadowed by the show's creative travails. Simon had near total control of the project from the start, and he assembled a team of collaborators who were mostly Broadway outsiders. As co-writer of the book and lyrics he enlisted Derek Walcott, the Nobel-prizewinning West Indian poet and playwright. Morris, a leading light of modern dance, was persuaded to make his Broadway debut as choreographer. The lead roles were cast mostly with singers who had little stage-acting experience--including Panamanian musician Ruben Blades and hot young salsa star Marc Anthony (playing the old and young Agron, respectively). Even...
Many students may have missed Cramer's reference to Lenin, but they still enjoyed writing about cultural events for the magazine. As its editor, Kaplan planned each issue around an "anchor piece," a feature article about a musician, playwright or somebody in the arts...
Smith, a former Stanford professor of arts and former Bunting fellow at Radcliffe, is a renowned playwright and actress. Her plays--Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992--are unique one-performer shows in which she herself takes on the identities of numerous characters...