Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ORTON was an outrageous homosexual playwright from lowerclass Leicester who lived for 15 years in a one-room flat with his one-time mentor, sometime lover and eventual murderer, Kenneth Halliwell. Precocious as a youth growing up in the 1950s, by the mid-1960s Orton was a rising star in British theater. His daring and almost obscene plays challenged stodgy British society and caught the imagination of forward thinking Englishmen--he even was commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. Revelling in his homosexuality, Orton pursued an endless number of anonymous sexual encounters in public bathrooms, abandoned houses, subway...
...companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more than two years of collaborative work put into it by Playwright Craig Lucas, Composer Craig Carnelia, Director Norman Rene and the hugely likable cast...
...competition with Broadway fare, Miss Daisy last week won Drama Desk Award nominations for Playwright Alfred Uhry, Director Ron Lagomarsino and all three members of the well-nigh perfect cast. Attempts are under way to move it to a larger theater, and eventually it seems fated to follow the traditional happy path of an off-Broadway hit: toward a long and honorable life in regional theaters across America...
...WRITING such two-dimensional comedies as California Suite and Chapter Two, Neil Simon forever distinguished himself as perhaps the most mediocre playwright to ever have a Broadway theatre named...
...Sergeant Phil Esterhaus opened each episode with its trademark roll call) to the 1985 departure of Steven Bochco, the show's co- creator, fired after reported disputes over cost overruns. Yet new characters (like Dennis Franz's choleric Lieut. Buntz) and continued good scripts (including one this season by Playwright David Mamet) injected fresh life. "This one never went downhill," says NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff. "It's like a ballplayer: you want to see someone go out a winner, like Sandy Koufax, instead of dropping fly balls in left field...