Word: playwrights
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...Salem is a playwright and the author of several books, including Journey into Israel. He lives in Cairo
...nose cramps," he jokes. He went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told...
...with dozens of other Sept. 11-themed shows, graced this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) "I haven't tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which will premiere at Barcelona's National Theater of Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with his own translation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. "There is an illuminating relationship between the fall...
White, 32, was inspired to write by his second-grade teacher, the mother of playwright Sam Shepard. ("I read Buried Child in the second grade," says White.) And his discovery about his father led to a lifelong fascination with secrets. "You feel like even really good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial...
Real New Yorkers are like Jonathan Brady, a Citibank exec-cum-off broadway playwright and producer. Brady’s play “Heroes,” which I saw a few weeks ago, exposes the New York spirit—a spirit he shares. The two twenty-something protagonists shed their mundane workaday lives to fight crime as real life superheroes, eventually capturing the “SoHo strangler.” They, like Brady and all real New Yorkers, seek to live extraordinarily; they want something more; they need to be unique...