Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spoke excitedly about her life, her craft and women's role in the arts to a crowd of more than 200 drama enthusiasts at the Agassiz Theater last night...
Vidal is a first-rate essayist, one of America's finest, though a rather more pedestrian novelist and playwright. His memoir lacks the sharp, confident voice of his essays, while the characters, like those in his novels and plays, often come across as wooden and two dimensional. He complains over and over to the reader of his frayed memory, his disinclination to look backward, his lack of a diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past...
...playwright and former opera singer, Quinn uses his love of stage and song to leaven the weekly mix of prime ministers and corporate titans with a sprinkling of actors, jazzmen and radio stars. "He lobbies hard for the most obscure people, then does them proud," says assistant editor Sidney Urquhart. "Sometimes we have to remind him that a head of state has passed away and we don't have room for that long-forgotten mimic...
Following the critical and popular successes of Fences and The Piano Lesson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson once again captures the music and the mood of Pittsburgh's Hill district with Seven Guitars...
...letters really characterize him for people interested in him as an artist," Tischler said. "They will help those interested also in his career as an American playwright--he worried about everything from writing of individual plays to their production...