Word: playwrights
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...simply outdated. Entertainers in every field are in a crisis of relevance, caught up in a nationwide feeling of survivor's guilt, unsure whether their work has a place in the new reality. "I don't know if my writing right now is adequate to the time," says playwright Jon Robin Baitz. "I'm not going to write until I feel that's no longer an issue...
...those familiar with the work of Fo, a controversial 75-year-old playwright and political activist, Johan Padan’s unorthodox blend of comedy, tragedy, intimacy and grandeur should come as no surprise. Long hailed as the modern inheritor of a tradition started by the medieval court jester, Fo has made a career of challenging those in authority through comedy that borders on buffoonery...
...anti-governmental stances, Fo was forbidden a visa to enter the United States throughout the 1970s and during most of the Regan administration. It wasn’t until 1986 that Robert Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, succeeded in bringing the great Italian playwright and performer to American shores for the first time. True to form, Fo thanked President Regan for generating publicity by keeping him out of the country...
...host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright Larry L. King (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), short-story writer J. California Cooper, historian John Hope Franklin and TV anchor Tom Brokaw (The Greatest Generation). Brokaw, for one, practices reading out loud...
...American playwright David Mamet once described the Aga as "the best of things British," and, together with the old Rolex Explorer and the Land Rover, as among those things that are "perfect-of-their-kind." This may seem extravagant praise for a cast-iron stove that has not changed in appearance since it was designed 70 years ago. But Aga owners, who number some 500,000 worldwide, tend to even greater eulogies when it comes to their "stove-oven-cooktop-heater," as Mamet styled it. "The Aga is part of the family. It's the heart of my home," says...