Playwright News--4.2.12

QC Playwrights' Festival seeks entries, April 6 deadline Quad-Cities Online Rock Island, Ill. - Quad-City area playwrights have until April 6 to submit an original 10-minute script to the Quad-City Playwrights' Festival. Augustana student actors will present a staged reading of the winning scripts at 7:30 pm on May 13 in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Theater Project honors Young Playwrights Suburban News By Suburban News Young Playwrights Competition winners and honorees (from left) Dennis Gribben, Victoria Grayner, Emma Hathaway (2nd Place), Kelly Sheridan, Justine DeSilva (1st Place), and Angel Shin (3rd Place). (Photo by Kevin Sebastian) The three ... See all stories on this topic » Suburban News

NYC Signature Names David Henry Hwang as "Residency One" Playwright for 2012-13 Playbill.com By Kenneth Jones Signature Theatre in New York City announced on April 2 that Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang will be the Residency One Playwright — the not-for-profit's foundation program, covering a career of one writer — for the 2012-13 season ... See all stories on this topic »

Signature Theatre Names David Henry Hwang as 2012-2013 Residency One Playwright Broadway.com The Signature Theatre Company will spotlight Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang as the Residency One Playwright for its 2012-2013 season. Hwang will follow Athol Fugard as the second Residency One Playwright at Signature's new Pershing Square ... See all stories on this topic » Broadway.com

Playwright Daniel MacIvor's unlikely muse Globe and Mail Playwright Daniel MacIvor likes to tell a story about his long-time friend and collaborator, actress Caroline Gillis: Back at the beginning of their careers, in the 1980s, he promised her that if she moved from Halifax to Toronto, he would write a play ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Playwright Randall Coburn Dodges the Curtain Call Chicagomag.com By Catey Sullivan With a string of grants and commissions to his name, Randall Colburn, 30, is one of Chicago's most talented emerging playwrights. He's also one of the busiest, having tackled subjects ranging from dead rock icons and creepy stalkers ... See all stories on this topic » Chicagomag.com

John Arden: a playwright ahead of his time The Guardian (blog) To anyone of my generation, the death of playwright John Arden is a bitter blow. His work is rarely seen these days – partly because he fell out badly with the British theatre establishment. But he was one of a quartet of dramatists, including John ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Korean-American playwright brings unusual portrait of immigrant family The Korea Herald The concept of home and belonging has been repeatedly discussed in migration studies and art, yet many local viewers may find Korean-American playwright Lloyd Suh's play quite equivocal and even unusual. As its title, "American Hwangap" suggests, ... See all stories on this topic »

David Henry Hwang to Be Signature Theatre's Residency Once Playwright TheaterMania.com By Brian Scott Lipton • Apr 2, 2012 • New York Signature Theatre has announced that Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang will be the Residency One Playwright for the 2012-2013 season at the company's new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center. See all stories on this topic » TheaterMania.com

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Kirsten Greenidge, a local playwright, turns to her family's... - Topix Local playwright Kirsten Greenidge looked at a home on 56 Claremont Avenue in Arlington, which, for decades, belonged to her grandparents. Share. Post ... www.topix.com/.../kirsten-greenidge-a-local-playwright-turns-...