Word: playwrighting
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...have an award-winning playwright on staff who writes original plays dealing with those issues, which our company performs in readers' theater-style productions," says Kathy Feininger, director of education and outreach for the Round House Theatre. Its free productions take place at libraries, community centers, medical conferences and senior centers. "I know from talking to audience members that we've made a difference, particularly in the area of alcohol abuse," says Feininger, "and that makes our actors feel they've contributed significantly to the community...
...event, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s “Black Writers Reading” series, featured poet and Yale associate professor Elizabeth Alexander and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks—a 2001 MacArthur Grant recipient who last year became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize...
Brighde Mullins, a playwright who teaches screenwriting and play writing classes each semester, joined the program this fall...
...nose), looks at the women's genre and says, "There's an audience for that. There's a lot of us out there." Scott Rudin, The Hours' producer, sees the Christmas-to-Valentine season as "a good time for movies that aren't entirely aimed at teenage boys." Playwright David Hare, whom Rudin hired to adapt Michael Cunningham's novel, notes the glut of year-end prestige movies: "All the intelligent films come out at exactly the same time, because they're thought to be Oscar material. And the more intelligent films are more likely to have good roles...
...productions for the ART show. When she couldn’t get copyright permissions for her first choice, she settled on La Dispute, which—like all of Marivaux’s plays—deals with the battle of the sexes. In this one, Bogart said, the playwright finally “found the vessel” for everything he hoped to say about eros and civilization...