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...Playwright Wendy Wasserstein won a 1989 Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles...
...years ago, she had done all that was humanly possible to shore up the public image she had laboriously fashioned for herself. Biographical details had been eliminated, anecdotes shellacked, letters burned--many of them after she had extracted them from their recipients. As America's most prominent woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes) and the author of various memoirs (Pentimento, Scoundrel Time), Hellman wanted the record closed, and on her terms...
DIED. LONNE ELDER, 64, playwright and screenwriter, best known for his Harlem family play Ceremonies in Dark Old Men; after a chronic illness; in Woodland Hills, California. His film credits include Sounder and Bustin' Loose...
Pressure increased in November after the Nigerian government executed playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from Ogoniland after convicting them of murder...
Edward Albee and Sam Shepard came of age in an era when playwrights could be stars too. Albee's excoriating family drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shook Broadway out of its comfy seats in 1962 and established him as the premier American playwright of the post-Arthur Miller generation. Shepard (though his work has largely been ignored by Broadway until now) was the most acclaimed and charismatic playwright to emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning...