Word: playwrights
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...Alternative Theater in Manhattan’s West Village, where a play she wrote in high school, “Nursery,” ran from mid-November through Dec. 8. She is recognized in Seventeen as a “voice” for her talent as a playwright. New York Times theater critic Bruce Weber raved about “Nursery,” writing that Jarcho’s work “displays remarkable confidence in an oblique mode of storytelling...Terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer...
Just one year ago, Benjamin Bratt was playing an accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...
...what you want to be in the world that you’re in. Like writing a movie for MTV/Paramount. Can you express yourself, can you do something that’s meaningful, or do you have to run away to New York and be a starving playwright? Those are the kinds of things Shaun goes through. And in the end, the decision he makes is kind of the one that I made: you can stay where you are, and write the things that you want to write, because you don’t necessarily have to leave...
Major General William F. Garrison (played in the movie by playwright Sam Shepard) was three weeks past the deadline Washington had set for completing that task when he got solid intelligence that two Habr Gadir "Tier One Personalities" and a raft of smaller fry were meeting near the Bakhara Market in "Mog." He ordered a midafternoon assault--Delta Force troops roping down out of helicopters to make the grab, Rangers securing a perimeter around the building. The captives would then be loaded into an armored convoy and taken back to the airfield headquarters...
...family. The story begins with the union of Royal and Etheline Tenenbaum, parents to a trio of child geniuses: Chas, a child financial wizard who makes his fortune breeding dalmation mice; Richie “the Baumer” Tenenbaum, a teenage tennis champion; and Margot, a famous playwright who wins a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the fourth grade. But following Royal and Etheline’s separation, two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster erase all trace of the children’s early brilliance. As adults, they are now lingering in a melancholic limbo: The adult...