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DIED. Mary Coyle Chase, 74, a Colorado-born playwright and mother of three sons who wrote the 1945 Pulitzer-prizewinning play Harvey, an enchanting tale about Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle lush whose best friend is Harvey, a 6-ft.-plus talking rabbit that only Elwood could see and hear but two generations of Americans adored; of a heart attack; in Denver. A reporter for the Rocky Mountain News before she switched to playwriting, Chase was notably unsuccessful until Harvey suddenly brought her fame and fortune with its 1,775 Broadway performances and its remake as a movie starring Jimmy...
Bill Davis, a 29-year-old playwright with seven full-length plays and 15 one-acts under his belt, leans forward as if to get a better view of the world he sees unfolding before him, a world of ordered chaos--a vision not too distant from that holy perception of God as Manipulator. Raised in Catholic schools. Davis was familiar enough with the Church to write a play about it. Mass Appeal, after a two-and-a-half week run at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, opens on Broadway tonight at the Booth Theatre...
Davis sees the playwright as a prism focusing the quirks and obsessions of society. "It's important to be very conscious of the pulse of society. I think people go to the theatre to be fed, to be nourished in some way, and I think that that's the obligation a playwright has: that they are in some way to look to themselves and to be a reflection of what's going on in society, and then write about that...
...Manhattan restaurant, a round, balding actor-playwright named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise...
MUCH OF THE SECOND HALF is devoted to a dramatic reading of Woollcott's criticism, an enviable talent he sharpened on the heads of playwrights, actors, friends, and other critics. Finding himself the butt of a rival's column, Woollcott retorted, "An empty taxi pulled up in front of the theater and George Gene Nathan got out." In a review of a play called Number 7, the playwright, he wrote, "has misjudged by five." In another, he suggested that "the lead actor be gently, but firmly, shot at dawn." Yet, he was as lavish in his praise...