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...audience that feels most refreshed. This off-Broadway show--which opened at Manhattan's Second Stage Theatre in October and has been such a hit that it's planning a move to Broadway in February--is theater as primal as it is charming. Zimmerman likes to say the playwright and audience are "collaborating in a dream," and she has brought some of humanity's oldest dreams--Greek myths--to shimmering life...
David Mamet has emerged as the most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren?...
DIED. ANTHONY SHAFFER, 75, lawyer turned thriller writer; of a heart attack; in London. Shaffer, whose playwright brother Peter wrote Amadeus, was best known for Sleuth, a brilliant, twisted portrait of double crossing, manipulation and revenge that won a Tony in 1971 and was made into a film starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier...
...Crimson published interviews last week with two students writing creative theses in the English department —a poet and a playwright. This week The Crimson talked to a novelist and an author of short stories. Made up of prose and broken into chapters, these students’ theses look more like their non-creative counterparts. But because their works will be personal creations they are more similar to poems and plays...
...would be “sanctimonious to say, ‘I cannot go on with my art after this,’” said Guare, the Tony-award winning playwright of “Six Degrees of Separation.” “All we can do is just keep doing what we’re doing...