Sunday, March 25, 2012

Playwriting News--3.24.12

 
College buddy remembers Tennessee Williams
STLtoday.com
The writers remained friends until the world-famous playwright died of an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills in 1983. Now 93, Smith, a poet, has gathered up his personal memories of Williams and tied them together with biographical material from ...
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Education Notebook: ACU student finalist for national playwright award
ReporterNews.com
You can reach me at 325-676-6776 and at fowlere@reporternew Abilene Christian University playwright Brittany Taylor recently has been named a national finalist in the Ten-Minute Play Awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, ...
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MBS Productions Adds 4/1&15 Dates to FORTUNE Run, Addison; Plus Meet the ...
Broadway World
MBS will also host a "Meet and Greet" and Q&A session with the playwright after the Saturday, March 24th 8 PM performance. August 30, 2001, an Attorney has arranged for an unusual midnight meeting between two men.... Roger is the estranged father to ...
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Renowned poet marks birthday of late friend Tennessee Williams
GazetteNET
By LAURA RODLEY William Jay Smith holds his book, "My Friend Tom, the Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams," on the porch of his Cummington home. Short in stature, but a giant in talent, the late American playwright Tennessee Williams would have marked ...
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GazetteNET
Former actress and playwright Rachel Joyce has made a dream debut with her novel
Scotsman (blog)
AS UNLIKELY heroes go, Harold Fry is pretty unlikely. Recently retired from a dull position in middle-management, his prospects seem to consist of bickering with his wife, Maureen, about the difference between jam and marmalade, and conversing about ...
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Scotsman (blog)
Lyric Café: A Labor of Love on the Eastside
Patch.com
A home cook and urban gardener teams up with a caterer and playwright to create an eatery whose food and atmosphere are reminiscent of the Left Bank. By Alison Gee Caterer and playwright Kevin Bone with his partner Angela, a former art teacher with a ...
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Joyseekers Theatre Presents THE LOWER DEPTHS, 3/25-4/7
Broadway World
Joyseekers Theatre brings Russian playwright Maxim Gorky's classic play, The Lower Depths, to a contemporary American audience in a brand new adaptation by Australian playwright Tim Redmond, running March 23 – April 7 at the Connelly Theatre, NYC.
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Free and easy: Cherry blossoms, Tennessee Williams
Washington Post (blog)
Writer William Jay Smith, who was friends with the playwright, will discuss and read from Williams's works. President Reagan. "The Cosby Show." Big hair. If you think you know the '80s, put your trivia knowledge to the test at the National Portrait ...
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CRT presents another great summer
Mineral County Miner
It is extremely difficult for a budding playwright to break into the often-closed playwright world, and CRT's goal is to change this and showcase missed talent of an unknown playwright. Many times, an unknown author's submission is not even looked at ...
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Blogs
 
O.C. Now » Blog Archive » On Theater: SCR revival of playwright's ...
By Daily Pilot
Gregory Sims and Nancy Bell in South Coast Repertory's 2012 production of Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies. (Photo by Scott Brinegar/Courtesy of SCR). It's been 20 years, four other productions and a Pulitzer Prize since South Coast ...
O.C. Now

Web
 
DEAR ABBY: Playwright feels wife is too harsh a critic
Read the "Dear Abby" advice column on Philly.com.
www.philly.com/.../20120319_Playwright_feels_wife_is_too_...
Blurt: The Seven Days Staff Blog: Montpelier Playwright Tackles ...
Feuding neighbors. Life-altering decisions. High tempers and even higher stakes . If Vermont's pitched debate about ridgeline wind power doesn't have the ...
7d.blogs.com/.../montpelier-playwright-tackles-ridgeline-wind...
The Playwright and the Radical - New York Times
The playwright Amy Herzog, whose "4000 Miles" is being remounted at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, draws on her family history and especially her ...
www.nytimes.com/.../amy-herzogs-4000-miles-at-mitzi-e-new...

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