Monday, April 9, 2012

Playwright News--4.8.12

 
Q&A with William Jay Smith, author of My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
His latest book, My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (University Press of Mississippi) is a memoir of the early years and development stages of one of the most acclaimed American playwrights of the 20th century.
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No glide time involved for this prolific playwright
New Zealand Herald
No wonder Roger Hall, New Zealand's leading playwright, icily admits: "I blew my top at one journalist for not doing his homework before an interview". So, in the interests of self-preservation, what follows here is a real insight into the world of the ...
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Using Chekhov's tools
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Playwright Donald Margulies uses the ruminations of four people as a portal into the way we make life choices. Mark Benninghofen, left, Valeri Mudek, Bill McCallum and Sarah Agnew in "Time Stands Still" at the Guthrie Theater. What playwright does this ...
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Passion, science highlighted in play
Winston-Salem Journal
More: "The World of the Play: Science and the Arts in the 18th Century," a WFU faculty seminar with playwright Lauren Gunderson, is set for Friday at 4:45 pm, WFU Mainstage Theatre, followed by a reception. Emilie, the Marquise du Chatelet, ...
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Mark Hinson: So long, Harry Crews. Hope it's Happy Hour in heaven
Tallahassee.com
By Mark Hinson The great American playwright Tennessee Williams came to Gainesville in the fall of 1979, when I was a student at the University of Florida. Williams was in town to oversee a production of his play "Tiger Tail" at the Hippodrome State ...
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Stage Directions
San Diego Reader (blog)
But in one sense he's an old school playwright. His stage directions are among the most detailed of any contemporary writer. The ones for Buried Child - currently at New Village Arts - are as lengthy as any by Eugene O'Neill.
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OC debut of 'Prince of Atlantis' is flawed but fascinating
OCRegister
Though the consequences of Kevin's actions are never in doubt – Drukman makes it clear from the outset that telling the truth is both preferable to and easier than lying – the playwright plants enough surprises to save his story from predictability.
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Disco meets the Bard at Arsht this summer
MiamiHerald.com
"The whole of A Midsummer Night's Dream is in it, but there's no text in the piece," says playwright Weiner. "… It's a strange amalgam of theater, dance, nightclub and an environment." The Donkey Show will preview July 13-15 and run through Aug.
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Bay Area theater openings, April 8
San Francisco Chronicle
Any Given Day Magic Theatre presents the US premiere of Scottish playwright Linda McLean's drama in which a moment changes the lives of couples on opposite sides of Glasgow. Opens Wed. Through April 22. Magic Theatre, Building D, Fort Mason Center, ...
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John Arden, playwright loved by critics, ignored by audiences ...
John Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, whose politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking works were often ...
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