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...Linney's not the type to brag. Although she was raised in Manhattan (her father is playwright Romulus Linney) and trained at the Juilliard School, she retains a soft southern drawl and kind manners acquired during childhood summers spent with relatives in Georgia. Still, this non-diva is a prized commodity in the New York City theater, where she's starred in "Uncle Vanya." Indie filmmakers love her too; she can currently be seen in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual...
...GETS GIRL With Spinning into Butter, her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail. First produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre, it's not just a gripping play but also an important...
Reading Soul Mountain in this version is a frustrating experience, chiefly because of the sense that there must be more to it than this. Surely the Nobel Prize cannot have been decided principally on the basis of what appears here. Gao, 60, a playwright as well as a novelist, is regarded as a master of the Chinese language. Perhaps that skill cannot be completely conveyed in a translation, but a better use of English might have helped...
...quickly to sustain the rest of the speech, he successfully develops the attention-starved, almost crazed qualities the part requires. Stephen Fritsch '03, whose Irish accent is nearly impeccable, overcomes the fact that he looks nothing at all like Shaw and becomes the endearing rotund, white-haired, and belligerent playwright...
Before he was POPE JOHN PAUL II, it is well known that Karol Wojtyla wanted to be a playwright. It is less well known that he wanted to be Neil Simon. The Jeweller's Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony, Passing on Occasion into a Drama, currently being performed in the crypt of a Paris church, shows the young playwright musing on the subject of marriage through the eyes of three couples and the proprietor of a wedding-band shop who just happens to be the human incarnation of God. As a playwright, Wojtyla makes a pretty good...