Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television in the house stood at the foot of her bed. If you wanted to watch Ed Sullivan, and I did, you also had to watch grandmother, commercials and morphine injections coming at regular intervals. It was a situation that, to a child, seemed neither odd nor morbid," notes playwright Scott McPherson in the program for Marvin's Room. The bluntness in McPherson's art may well be that of a child but it is also one of a brilliant craftsman...
...year-old McPherson has often been facetious about considering himself a playwright. Whatever he names himself, there are not many writing on this scale: Marvin's Room received the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the John Gassner Playwrighting award, the Whiting Writer's Award, and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award...
Assassins, which was originally produced in 1990 at Playwright's Horizons, played only a limited engagement in New York, forcing all who wanted to see the show, save those lucky enough to have gotten a subscription, to wait up to eight hours in line each day in the hope of gaining one of the few available seats...
...operatic dreadnought -- playwright David Henry Hwang, choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass...
...PLAYWRIGHT...