Word: playwrights
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...Borders bookstore downtown is a popular gay hangout. Those who prefer to stay in the closet can find refuge in numerous websites and Internet chat groups run by local gay activists. "Singapore is probably the safest place to live in Asia now", says Shen, a gay playwright...
...Saturday's roster began with a jazz and hip-hop movement workshop led by dancer, choreographer and playwright Arthur Taylor, founder of an international traveling dance company of adolescents...
...festival also included three sold-out performances in the Adams Pool Theater of Streetpeople, a satiric comedy about life on the streets, written and directed by black playwright and actor Ben Ateku, founder of a Weymouth-based theater company...
...audience, too, learns to stop asking who Adam really is, and whether he should be appreciated or vilified. It is easy to find Adam offensive, even morally repugnant. But the message of About Adam is that we will be much happier if instead, we find Adam empowering. Irish playwright Gerard Stembridge wrote and directed About Adam with the goal of portraying "today's Dublin." By bending the rules of the traditional romantic comedy and pushing the standards of what makes a happy romantic relationship, Stembridge strays far away from the sexually repressed Irish society that is often depicted in films...
Berry's adaptation of South African playwright and activist Athol Fugard's (Master Harold and the Boys, My Children My Africa and Road to Mecca) classic play takes movie-goers to the theater in more ways than one.Boesman and Lena starts with a jolt, in the middle of something that seems to be still looming over the two titular homeless wanders. Lena (Angela Bassett) stands alone in the middle of the screen begging Boesman (Danny Glover) to tell her how they got to this barren place. "Where did they come from? Which path did they take?" she asks. Boesman just...