Word: playwrighting
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What's more, it is oddly similar to a very different playwright's latest failure. Neil Simon's Proposals--the comic kingpin's first Broadway effort since Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993--is, like The Old Neighborhood, a memory play that doesn't add up to much. Guided by the family's (now dead) housekeeper, we are taken back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch...
Paul Frohock '79, the ambitious playwright-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits deals with a small, rural town with latent ambitions. A corporate nuke, Mr. Prometheus (David Lamb), charms the townspeople into believing his promises about the advantages of having a nuclear power plant in their town. The naive, eager community leaders, led by their mayor (Roy Stevenson), embrace the idea behind the plant and the potential wealth it promises. Only one maverick breaks the unanimity of the town's acceptance. Bailey, played haphazardly by Doug Floyd, questions the wisdom of having such a destructive potential in such...
This production--the first Broadway revival since the original was premiered over 40 years ago--strives for clarity of vision, both in expressing Anne's emotions and systematically portraying how each member of her family copes with their tragic situation. Playwright Wendy Kesselman has carefully adapted and seamlessly integrated the new material with the original. These additions, mostly accounts of Anne's developing sexuality and her stormy relations with her mother and sister, were edited out of the original publication of the diary by Anne's father Otto Frank, the sole survivor of the family. Since Frances Goodrich and Albert...
Picture yourself as a famous, no-nonsense Congresswoman, married to the man who founded TIME magazine. Somebody gives you a small tab of paper, you happily lick it and you're gone. That's what happened in 1960 when CLARE BOOTHE LUCE--playwright, socialite, anticommunist and wife of Henry Luce--turned on, tuned in and dropped LSD with her husband. Luce's handwritten acid diaries were made public this month, 10 years after her death, as stipulated in her will. Among her Jim Morrisonesque musings: "Capture green bug for future reference," "Feel all true paths to glory lead...
...dictatorial director," Geidt says. "It's a collaboration between the author, the playwright and the director...