Word: playwrights
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...Ohio State Murders, one of the most famous works by acclaimed playwright and Harvard visiting professor Adrienne Kennedy, is ostensibly a play about violence. "I was asked to talk about the bloody imagery in my work," says Denise Nicholas at the start of the performance, playing a famous writer returning to give a lecture at her alma mater. "Bloodied heads, severed limbs, dead father, dead Nazis, dying Jesus." But those audience members looking for a shocking array of violence and defacement, a visual testament to the horrors of American racism which the play so brilliantly confronts, will have to look...
...extreme example of a call for authorial authority but not an abnormal one. The Dramatists Guild, the only national union of dramatic writers, encourages its members to stipulate a strict adherence to stage directions whenever they sign a contract for a new production. And more than one major playwright in recent memory has disavowed connection to a particular performance because of a disregard for their written directions, Robert Anderson's criticisms of the London run of his famous Tea and Sympathy being among the most notable...
...first significant interview he has given about his book, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright told The Crimson Friday that the political message behind Henrietta was on an entirely different subject altogether...
...Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York City--that theater hothouse where small talents get big write-ups--this gifted playwright has yet to attract major attention. That may change when Butter is produced at Lincoln Center this summer--or when Boy Gets Girl, her best...
About a year ago, "I asked my buddy David Mamet, who is a playwright, to write a book about Henrietta coming to Harvard," Friedman says...