Playwright News--3.30.12

Famous Actor and Playwright Explores Africa's Football Fixation Voice of America March 29, 2012 Famous Actor and Playwright Explores Africa's Football Fixation Play by renowned African actor and playwright explores continent's football craze Darren Taylor | Johannesburg, South Africa This is Part Four of a five-part series on ... See all stories on this topic »

Kirsten Greenidge, a local playwright, turns to her family's past for a world ... Boston.com (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Local playwright Kirsten Greenidge looked at a home on 56 Claremont Avenue in Arlington, which, for decades, belonged to her grandparents. By Laura Collins-Hughes Two couples get together for drinks in the South End, ... See all stories on this topic » Boston.com

About the Playwright: Marc Camoletti Broadway World In 1958, at the advanced (for a beginner playwright) age of 35, he wrote his first play, La Bonne Anna (The Good Anna or Anna the Maid). It was produced at the Théâtre des Capucines by a company affiliated with Camoletti's wife, the theatrical designer ... See all stories on this topic »

Playwright and political activist John Arden dies Irish Times PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has led tributes to the English playwright and artist John Arden, who has died in Galway, aged 81. Mr Higgins said he had heard of his death with "great sadness" and described him as "one of the giants of modern literature", ... See all stories on this topic »

Playwright John Arden Has Died TheaterMania.com By Andy Propst • Mar 30, 2012 • London,New York Arden's plays include Sergeant Musgrave's Dance, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959, in a production that starred Dudley Moore. The work later played New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in ... See all stories on this topic » TheaterMania.com

Tributes paid to playwright & activist John Arden WhatsOnStage.com Tributes have been paid to playwright John Arden, who died on Wednesday (28 March 2012) at the age of 81. Arden rose to prominence at the Royal Court in the 1950s, with his best known play Serjeant Musgrave's Dance premiering at the venue in 1959. See all stories on this topic »

6 plays, 24 hours Albany Democrat Herald To pull off this feat, Stone will bring a group of actors, directors and playwrights to the Majestic Theatre at 7:30 pm Friday, April 6, for a social. After about an hour, a hat will be brought out and will have slips of paper in it with themes written ... See all stories on this topic »

Seven days on stage: Richard Bean lets rip at rip-off ticket touts The Guardian One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean is unhappy. In particular, he's unhappy with secondary-ticket agents, whom he has branded as "legal ticket touts" and who, he claims, are preventing theatre from making itself more accessible to new ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

One Man, Two Guvnors writer says ticket touting a 'threat' to West End Telegraph.co.uk The playwright Richard Bean has said that online ticket touts are asking "twice the price of what they should be". Theatre-goers are being ripped off by ticket touts, which is having a damaging long-term effect on how the West End is perceived by the ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk