Word: playwrighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SHADOW OF A GUNMAN. Sean O'Casey went on to write better plays and the new Irish troupe that bears his name may go on to better stagings, but both show to advantage in this tragicomedy about the Troubles in Dublin of 1920. The touring show, directed by the playwright's daughter Shivaun, is at Washington's Kennedy Center until...
That poignant exchange is at the moral heart of Marvin's Room, an unflinching yet surprisingly funny play about illness, physical and mental, that opened off-Broadway this month after runs in Chicago and Hartford. Playwright Scott McPherson, 32, has an original voice, balanced between sentiment and surrealism, and a gift for creating characters who are more than the sum of their behavior. He also has AIDS, which gives him premature sensitivity about the importance of help and healing but imperils his talent just as it is emerging...
Anyway, that was Shakespeare's version. Shakespeare did what the playwright does: he turned history into a vivid, articulate, organized dream -- repeatable nightly. He put the crouchback onstage, and sold tickets...
Laurents was offered plenty of advice about ways to improve the show -- from composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman and playwright Anthony Shaffer, among others, according to sources close to the producers. It was all rejected. So was the testimony of the public, which walked out in droves. At a performance last week, two elderly women in the front row tottered out about 20 minutes before the end. This writer, seated behind, longed to join them...
...Celebration of Haitian Culture--a performance by poet-playwright Jean-Claude Martineau and the Hibiscus Company including poetry, songs and stories in Creole and English and drumming by a master drummer. In Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., in the Remis Auditorium. Sunday, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m. For information call...