Word: playwrighting
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...Anglo-American theater, the most important creative artist is normally the playwright or an actor. On Continental stages, from Munich to Moscow, it is almost always the director, who becomes as much of an auteur as in film. Even classic texts serve as mere points of departure...
Reaganomics and a prolific British playwright picqued student interests last week, as Social Analysis 10 and a core class in Shakespeare topped the list of most popular offerings for the fall semester...
...playwright Mark O'Keefe joked that he was"shocked and deeply depressed" to hear the news."When I heard it from Nell's roommate I made amoaning, guttural sound," he said...
Like fellow cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau, William Hamilton of the New Yorker plainly reckons that an eye for the absurdities of character and an ear for dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them...
...young Russian student at the Historical Archive Institute in Moscow decided to unravel the mystery of what really happened to the Czar. Edvard Radzinsky later became a successful playwright, but he never abandoned his quest. He has now produced an unforgettable book in which the evocative power of the dramatist is enriched by scholarship...