Word: playwrights
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...Mark O’Donnell, who is a novelist and playwright, says that the life of a writer is like “a gypsy path”—where the wagon keeps rolling from one job to the next...
DIED. JASON MILLER, 62, playwright and actor who won a 1973 Pulitzer Prize and Tony award for That Championship Season, of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades...
...years old in 1966 when I became a playwright. I'd been writing a successful comic strip for 10 years, so this was not necessarily a good time to start on a new career. But the Kennedy assassination had hit me hard. Over the next six months, it came to me that we were living in a different America. The country seemed to be on the verge of a national nervous breakdown. And nobody was writing about it. Not then. But I saw it taking place in random acts of violence and the almost casual breaking down of recognized patterns...
Then in 1990, my play Elliot Loves, which I thought was my best play to date, got a miserable reception. So I stopped writing for the theater because everyone was so mean to me. And besides, I was getting tired of being a pro bono playwright. I backed into writing children's books. An illustrator friend asked me to write the story for an idea he had in mind. Then, just as I was getting hot on it, he fired me. He'd decided to write it himself. So, out of spite, I wrote my own book, thinking, "My book...
...GETS GIRL With "Spinning Into Butter," her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail. First produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre, it's not just a gripping play but also an important...