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Beller, who is writing a biography on playwright and screenwriter Robert Sherwood, flew out from Los Angeles to come to the meeting...
This sort of thing may satisfy the need of playwrights to find new forms to encompass an incomprehensible event, but it risks leaving behind the small human truths that really resonate. That sort of homely detail was neatly captured in the sketch that playwright Lynn Nottage contributed to a festival of short works about 9/11 presented at New York City's Town Hall a year ago. In it, three sets of parents are gathered for their children's first day of preschool. They anxiously watch the kids at play, make snippy comments about the other parents, debate whether to interfere...
DIED. HERB GARDNER, 68, Tony-winning playwright; after a long battle with lung disease; in New York City. His biggest success, A Thousand Clowns, in 1962, told the story of Murray Burns (played by Jason Robards Jr.), a nonconformist ex-writer for children's TV who fights to keep custody of his nephew. Gardner also wrote I'm Not Rappaport, a 1985 hit about a pair of endearingly cantankerous octogenarians...
Which writer or playwright do you admire most...
Bertold Brecht had no doubt about the importance of eating well. “Food,” the German playwright wrote, “comes first, then morals.” The recent changes introduced by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) have shown, however, that improvements in gastronomy and morality can sometimes go hand-in-hand. The revamped menu that came into effect in September should prove beneficial to both students’ taste buds and their cholesterol levels...