Playwright News--3.26.12

Playwright Mike Daisey: 'I would like to apologize' GeekWire Ten days after being put in an unflattering spotlight after public radio's This American Life retracted its story about him, playwright Mike Daisey has posted a public apology on his blog. Daisey, whose one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve ... See all stories on this topic »

Indian Theatre: The world within Indian Express Delhi-based playwright Neel Chaudhuri is captivated by the Delhi Metro. "It is a strange place, an intimate setting that brings strangers together, nurturing fragments of relationships," he says. The Metro gets character and purpose in his new play, ... See all stories on this topic »

Thornhill writer Daniel Karasik wins CBC short story contest Toronto Star By Greg Quill Entertainment Reporter ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST EMBARGOED UNTIL 10 am MARCH 26 Thornhill, Ont. author, actor, playwright and poet David Karasik was named winner Monday of the English-language prize in CBC's Canada Writes national Short ... See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star

Homer Glen actor David Knezz in 'Devil's Disciple' TribLocal The playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856. Shaw's plays were first performed in the 1890s. By the end of the decade he was an established playwright. He wrote 63 plays and his output as novelist, critic, pamphleteer, ... See all stories on this topic » TribLocal

Tennessee Williams: Portraits of an American Genius TIME While Eugene O'Neill, with his Nobel Prize and four Pulitzers, is the greatest American playwright of the 20th century, Arthur Miller the most lastingly relevant, Edward Albee the most challenging and Sam Shepard simply the coolest, one could argue ... See all stories on this topic »

Pain of an 'American Family' Minneapolis Star Tribune Playwright Carlyle Brown has managed that dynamic in "American Family," a world premiere that opened Friday at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. Directed by Marion McClinton, the drama takes time to lay down an expository first act and then zeroes in ... See all stories on this topic »

SATC's Contemporary Reading Series Continues With TWENTY MINUTES AFTER DEATH, 3/26 Broadway World On Monday, March 26, as part of their Contemporary Reading Series, Scandinavian American Theater Company and Scandinavia House will co-present a reading of Danish playwright Thomas Markmann's Twenty Minutes After Death. See all stories on this topic »

Q&A: Kate Valk on the Wooster Group's Vieux Carré Globe and Mail The late 1970s was a seminal time for two theatrical forces in New York – classic American playwright Tennessee Williams and the experimental company the Wooster Group. As one historical career declined with every new play, another was just beginning. See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Dead Man's Cell Phone Rings, and Strangeness Follows Houston Press (blog) Playwright Sarah Ruhl has the talent to seize upon a minor incident, a non-event, and explore its implications, much like tugging at a loose thread on a garment and suddenly seeing it unravel. Ruhl eschews the conventions of motivation and plausibility ... See all stories on this topic »

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Little Boxes: A playwright's notes on quantified identities by Saviana ... Lately we can also see The Arab Play here and there, in progressive theaters, as well as The New Hot Playwright Play (for minimal attunement to the Zeitgeist). www.howlround.com/little-boxes-a-playwright's-notes-on-qua...