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...Real Thing by Tom Stoppard. "I don't know how to write love," mourns Henry (Roger Rees), the playwright hero of Stoppard's new play. "Loving and being loved is so unliterary. It's happiness expressed in banality and lust." If Stoppard's other work (Jumpers, Travesties) can be seen as a series of dazzling games-word games, mind games, games the mind plays on itself, games of war and politics, the exasperatingly intricate game of life-The Real Thing announces itself as just that: a real, straightforward play about matters of the heart, one that...
Currently at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, Fen is the third of British Playwright Caryl Churchill's plays to be presented in New York. "Infinitely distantly" related to Winston, Churchill, 44, is a no-nonsense feminist whose convictions are firm without being strident. She is the mother of three boys, ages 20, 18 and 13, and her barrister husband tended them for stretches so that she could write. She possesses a startling imagination, and her way with words ranges from the stark to the lyrical...
...year-old Fuentes, also a prolific playwright, critic, and novelist, has taught and lectured at over a dozen U.S. universities, delivering last year's Spencer Lecture at Harvard. Currently a resident of Princeton, N.J., he is adjunct professor of English and Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania...
...made public that late playwright Tennessee Williams empowered a member of the Faculty to administer the both of his estimated $10 million estate as a fund to promote creative writing, though it remains unclear whether Harvard will spend any The gift leaves most of the estate to create a special writing fund at the University of the South in Tennessee...
...father was the late James Broderick, a fine actor and the star of the long-running TV series Family. Patsy is a playwright turned artist, and there was almost always someone interesting for Matthew and his two older sisters to talk to in their big four-bedroom apartment, overlooking Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Shy when he was growing up, Matthew for a time gave up his dream of acting, but the role of Snout in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream hooked him. Before that, both parents said not a word about acting; after...