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...Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World,” her second Mainstage production—an honor many Harvard directors don’t experience once. In addition to her artistic background, Spillane-Hinks brings to it an intellectual familiarity: the playwright is the subject of her thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part.Still, her intimate knowledge of this somewhat esoteric play wasn’t her focus going into Common Casting. “A production isn’t a research paper...
...also has academic interests at stak—the playwright is the subject of Spillane-Hink’s thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part...
...Meeting my husband (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, author of "The Kentucky Cycle." So much for Miss Manners...
...What Harvard pays fund managers is unnecessary, inappropriate, and contrary to the values of a great university,” said author and playwright William A. Strauss ’69, an outspoken critic of the HMC compensation structure. “The amount they are paying these individuals is enough that you could take some of that money and have a tuition freeze, to substantially reduce the debt burden on students from middle and working class families...
DIED. WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 55, witty, bittersweet playwright; of lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled...