Word: playwrights
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...that’s polite is not much fun,” playwright Tony Kushner told the progressive magazine Mother Jones in 1995. And though Kushner has won an Emmy, a Pulitzer, and two Tonys, he has never won an award for being polite...
...prologue of playwright Frank Wedekind’s “Lulu,” which will be shown as part of the Visiting Director’s Project, a ringmaster announcing the various animals in his circus comes finally to the titular Lulu herself, who is introduced as a beguiling snake...
...easiest way of knowing whether good has triumphed over evil is to examine the freedom of the artist," quips a character in Travesties, one of the oft-staged plays by British playwright Tom Stoppard. Late last month, Stoppard was able to form a view on how that struggle is faring in Belarus. Along with around 70 local spectators packed into a tiny bar in a shabby industrial area of Minsk, the capital, he watched an underground theater performance. The Belarus Free Theater (FT), a group of some 40 playwrights, directors, producers and actors, operates in the repressive regime of President...
...just published a book on sloth, assuring readers they have "the right to be lazy," but playwright Wendy Wasserstein doesn't claim that right for herself. Her new play, Third, opens next month at New York City's Lincoln Center. A musical based on her children's book Pamela's First Musical debuts in April. And her first novel, Elements of Style, comes out in May. Wasserstein talked to TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about what fuels all that prose...
...lost souls. But the secret reason for the success of his avant-noir films is simple: he's the world's most romantic filmmaker. His iridescent images detail love's anguish and rapture. Great-looking women throw themselves at cool guys, and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...