Word: playwrights
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...anomaly. Otherwise, voters went for meaningfully angry over emotionally adorable-not just with Crash and supporting actress Weisz (as the martyred activist in The Constant Gardener) but in two of the short-film categories. The prize for Live Action Short went to the contentious Six Shooter, written by English playwright Martin McDonagh-a three-time Best Play nominee on Broadway who probably couldn?t have imagined he?d win an Oscar before he got a Tony. And in the Animated Short category, the award went not to the Pixar cartoon One Man Band but to John Canemaker?s The Moon...
...Playwright Christopher Durang ’71, a onetime Dunster House resident, will return to his alma mater to receive the Harvard Arts Medal, an annual honor awarded to alumni that have demonstrated artistic excellence and contributed to raising student interest in the arts, the Office for the Arts announced Wednesday. Durang will be the 12th to add his name to the list of notable alumni artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, director Peter Sellers ’80 and author John Updike ’54, who have earned the medal. In May, University President...
...Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World,” her second Mainstage production—an honor many Harvard directors don’t experience once. In addition to her artistic background, Spillane-Hinks brings to it an intellectual familiarity: the playwright is the subject of her thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part.Still, her intimate knowledge of this somewhat esoteric play wasn’t her focus going into Common Casting. “A production isn’t a research paper...
...also has academic interests at stak—the playwright is the subject of Spillane-Hink’s thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part...
...Meeting my husband (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, author of "The Kentucky Cycle." So much for Miss Manners...