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...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...
...wonder some players want to leave. "I don't think the commissioner or management side are aware of it," says noted playwright Tetsu Yamazaki, a longtime fan. "But it's the freedom of the major leagues that is the most attractive thing for Japanese players...
...likelihood is that Japan will just muddle through, much in the same way the Japanese government has muddled through the past 10 recession-filled, confidence-depleting years. Says playwright Yamazaki, whose devotion to the Giants began to wane after Watanabe forced the free-agent system on the other owners in 1993: "Let Japanese players go to the States. That is good for Japanese baseball because someday they will come back and raise the level of the sport. Japanese baseball is like Japanese politics. One is dominated by the Giants, the other by the ldp. It will take time to liberate...