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...Vagina Monologues” is a series of—you guessed it—monologues, based on hundreds of interviews playwright Eve Ensler conducted with women of all ages and backgrounds. First performed in 1996, the play has garnered worldwide fame. The monologues unpack a cultural history of sex, rape, and female empowerment, with the universal catalyst being, naturally, the vagina...
...Though best known for his hit movies (starting with Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005), top-rated TV series (TBS's House of Payne) and friendship with Oprah Winfrey (with whom he produced the Oscar-nominated film Precious), Perry, 40, may well be the most popular unsung playwright in America. Raised in a poor and abusive home in New Orleans, he staged his first musical play, I Know I've Been Changed, in a former Atlanta church in 1998. Two years later he introduced his most famous character, the wisecracking, God-fearing granny Mabel (Madea) Simmons - played...
...just that she never fathoms Mapplethorpe's deepening fascination with S&M. She lives for a while with a member of the '70s arena band Blue yster Cult, until she discovers--surprise!--that he messes around on the road. She has an affair with the playwright Sam Shepard, who handles her with care but neglects at first to mention his wife...
...Stairs to the Roof” is a play that many theater-goers may never have heard of by a playwright they probably know quite well. One of Tennessee Williams’ earliest works and his first written deliberately for a mass audience, “Stairs” has never had the popular appeal of Williams’ later plays. Seemingly aware of this fact, visiting director Michael M. Donahue ’05 turns the Agassiz theater inside-out with an exciting and unconventional production that breathes vibrant life into a work that wouldn’t ordinarily...
...seem shockingly glib and opportunistic. "This isn't about sex. It's about race," goes the exchange that brings down the curtain in one scene. "What's the difference?" Make sense of that line, and you just might be able to make sense of where the most important American playwright of his generation has gone wrong. Good luck...