Word: playwrights
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...that wind up on Broadway and off Broadway get their start at regional theaters. Nor should it be a surprise (though it was) that this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to a play most of New York City's tastemakers had never even heard of: Cuban-born playwright Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, which had been produced only at the 104-seat New Theater in Coral Gables...
DIED. JACK GELBER, 71, influential playwright whose 1959 work The Connection was a milestone of stage experimentation; of a form of blood cancer; in New York City. With its raw depiction of a world of dope addicts and its blurring of the line between stage life and real life, The Connection put off many critics ("A farrago of dirt"--the New York Times), but helped pave the way for more innovations in style and subject matter...
...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...
DIED. PAUL ZINDEL, 66, chemistry teacher turned playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for his semiautobiographical 1970 play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the story of two siblings with an abusive mother; of cancer; in New York City...
...rest of the play. In each the three variations, Reza skips the key scene in which the couples discover the mistake; she jumps straight to later in the evening, when they're scarfing down cheese snacks. (What, no takeout restaurants in Paris?) You only have to imagine what a playwright like Alan Ayckbourn - or even Neil Simon, in his better days - could have done with the same device, to get impatient with "Life X 3" long before the guests file out for the last time...