Word: playwrights
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...Interest in Tragedy Most assessments of Death of a Salesman, by playwright Arthur Miller [APPRECIATION, Feb. 21], called the drama a masterpiece. Yet when the play opened on Broadway 56 years ago and drew rave reviews, TIME's critic was rather less enthusiastic. The piece we published, however, gave insight into Miller's point of view...
Spelling Bee started life as a play (originally called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E) by an off-off-Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...
Dunster House also features a Creative Writers lecture series, which this past Monday featured Lost At Sea playwright Laura Harrington, who offered career advice for aspiring fiction writers...
Henry's father had been a successful operetta librettist, and as a young man Henry hoped to become a playwright, but he took a job with TIME as a copyboy while earning a degree at New York University. What began as a temporary measure turned out to be a destiny. "I realized in due course that the theater was not really my calling," he once said, "but that journalism--which of course can be theatrical--indeed was." His rise was suitably dramatic. At 28, he became senior editor and 17 years later, in 1968, managing editor. Very quickly, the magazine...
...Learning From Performers series continues with the visit of Maestro Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. This event is one of many intimate events put together by the OFA this semester in a series whose other guests will include turntablist DJ Spooky and playwright Tony Kushner. Slatkin has enjoyed abundant critical praise in the last two decades as a premiere conductor, with successful tenures at both the St. Louis Symphony and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has been with the National Symphony Orchestra for nine years, and in that time has been crowned with...