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...artistic transformations, one need look no further than the play's author, Nilo Cruz. The Cuban-American playwright labored in the regional-theater vineyards for years with little recognition. Then last spring, Anna in the Tropics--after a single production at a small theater in Coral Gables, Fla.--was the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Now the play is a hot property, with three simultaneous stagings at regional theaters this fall, one of which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays...
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...that gays are as ubiquitous on television as Law & Order spin-offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein...
Beller, who is writing a biography on playwright and screenwriter Robert Sherwood, flew out from Los Angeles to come to the meeting...
DIED. HERB GARDNER, 68, Tony-winning playwright; after a long battle with lung disease; in New York City. His biggest success, A Thousand Clowns, in 1962, told the story of Murray Burns (played by Jason Robards Jr.), a nonconformist ex-writer for children's TV who fights to keep custody of his nephew. Gardner also wrote I'm Not Rappaport, a 1985 hit about a pair of endearingly cantankerous octogenarians...