Playwright

Q&A: Playwright Amy Herzog on Family History, Political Activism, and the Culture of Capitalism

ARTINFO | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Lincoln Center, Communism, Amy Herzog, Artinfo, 4,000 Miles, Playwright, Family, Performing Arts, Arts News

Amy Herzog, a promising young American playwright, is pregnant and due to give birth to a daughter on May 1 of this year. The date has more than a lit...

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'Regrets' Is Quietly Effective Drama

AP | by JENNIFER FARRAR | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Lucas Caleb Rooney, Adriane Lenox, Nyc Theater, Regrets, Blacklisted-Hollywood, Carolyn Cantor, Alexis Bledel, Drama, House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee, Matt Charman, Brian Hutchison, Playwright, Arts News

NEW YORK -- There was an unhappy time in America when ratting out your friends for entertaining socialist ideas was considered by some in the governme...

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German Composer Heiner Goebbels Wins Ibsen Prize

AP | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Norway, Henrik-Ibsen, Ibsen Festival, Oslo Norway, Heiner-Goebbels, Composer, Composers, Playwright, Oslo, International Ibsen Award, Arts News

OSLO, Norway -- German composer and music director Heiner Goebbels has won the International Ibsen Award for creating new insights in theater that hav...

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RIP, Performance Artist, Playwright, And 'Alien Comic' Tom Murrin

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: New York Artists, Alien Comic, Video, Luna Macaroona, East Village, Tom Murrin, Artist, Moon, Performance Art, La Mama, Full Moon Spectacular, Playwright, Ps 122, Arts News

Tom Murrin, the beloved New York performance art icon, passed away yesterday after a long struggle with cancer, The Village Voice reports. "The Ali...

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[Interview] In Search of The Real Americans: An Interview with Actor Dan Hoyle

Turnstyle | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Politics, Acting, Conservatives, Dan Hoyle, The Real Americans, Theater, Republicans, Playwright, Arts News

By Jeremy Helton During the 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin was quoted as saying, "We believe that the best of America is in these small town...

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Middle School Social Studies Teacher Sees Lessons In Teaching Own Play

AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Atlanta Elementary Schools, Social Studies, Pulitzer Prize, Middle School Social Studies, Wit, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Atlanta Schools, Atlanta, Teachers, Broadway Plays, Margaret Edson Playwright, Margaret Edson, Playwright, Education News

ATLANTA -- Playwright Margaret Edson talks proudly about her Pulitzer Prize and her work appearing on Broadway, but she's the most animated when she d...

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Remembering Vaclav Havel

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Remembrance, Eastern Europe, Vaclav Havel, Poland, Solidarity, Free Speech, Czechoslovakia, Velvet Revolution, Dictatorship, Soviet, Newsweek, Playwright, Czech Republic, World News

Looking back at my encounters with Havel, I'm struck by three dominant character traits: his moral courage, his ability to recognize and live with the contradictions of human behavior, and his sense of the absurd.

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'We Were Born To Attract Attention And We Loved It'

| Charity | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Figment, Teen Fiction, New York City, Playwright, High School News

This is a regular column featuring original fiction by and for high school students, provided by Figment.com, an online community writing site for you...

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Exclusive Documentary Clips Reveal Playwright's Painful Past

Turnstyle | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Clio Barnard, Tribeca Film Festival, Playwriting, Andrea Dunbar, Play, Documentary, Film Festival, Documentary Film, Film, Baftas, Playwright, Culture News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Blockbuster Shakespeare Exhibition To Open Before London Olympics

Telegraph | Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Museum, London 1612, United Kingdom, Books, William Shakespeare, Coins, London Olympics, Theater, Shakespeare, London Olympics 2012, London, Playwright, Arts News

London 1612: Shakespeare's Theatre of the World, will open in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics and will explore the role of the capital as an em...

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ART ED: 10 Nonprofits Teaching Arts Education To Kids Across The Country

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nashville, New York, Children, Skid Row, Los Angeles, Theater, Rhode Island, Painting, Playwright, Art, Art Outreach, Slidepollajax, Milwaukee, Dance, Hawaii, Seattle, Philadelphia, Art Education, Budget Cuts, Arts News

With ever-increasing budget cuts negatively affecting US schools, it has been up to independent nonprofits to step in and make up for the deficit in a...

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Why Are US Literary Laureates Only Poets? Why Not a Dramatist?

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writing, Nobel Prize Literature, Theatre, Broadway, Theater, Musicals, Playwrighting, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Playwright, Arts News

The country that invented musical theater should have a representational dramatist in its highest official center of literature.

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New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Church, Play, O.J. Simpson, Ku Klux Klan, Theatre, Phylicia Rashad, Black Churches, Black Church Arson, Arson, Marcus Gardley, Church Burned, Playwright, Cosby Show, Every Tongue Confess, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) -- For playwright Marcus Gardley, the theater is his pulpit and plays are his sermons. His...

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Franketienne: Haiti's First Nobel Laureate - Hopefully

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marcel Duret, French, Voodoo, Unesco, Mario Benjamin, Emmelie Prophete, The Trap, Environmental Disaster, Literature, Sado-Masochism, Andre Breton, Gran Makout, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia, Memoire D'encrier, Jim Luce, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, CUNY Graduate Center, Chaos Theory, Haitian-Americans, Abstract Work, Tragic Clown, Thought Leader, Apocalypse, Baron Samedi, Artist for Peace, Surrealism, Carlton University, Rachel Douglas, Japan, Papa Doc, Cultural Area Studies, Vodou Pantheon, Nobel Prize, Noble Laureate, Ile en Ile, Thomas Spear, Brooklyn Public Library, University of Liverpool, Earthquake, Poetry, Kaiama L. Glover, Intellectual, Giulietta Masina, Kabuki, Creole, Galaxie Chaos-Babel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, City College of New York, Author, Seanna Sumalee Oakle, Stewardship Report, Evens Anozine, Jlsr, Marie Coron, Port-Au-Prince, Vodou Priest, University of Nebraska, Baby Doc, Luce Index, Emmanuel Duogene, Duvalier Regime, University of Maryland, Alvina Ruprecht, Stanford L. Luce, Lewdness, Beatrice Coron, Artist, Death, Alessandra Benedicty, Haiti, New York City, France, Columbia University, Caribbean, Franck Etienne, Playwright, Painter, Global Citizen, Flowers of Insomnia, Mary Cobb Wittrock, January 12, Musician, Guede, Franketienne, Melovivi, Wordplay, Scatologu, Arts News

As a cultural area studies graduate, seldom do I feel over my head culturally. Standing in the home of possibly the next Nobel Prize recipient for Li...

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THEATER: 'After The Dance's' Bright Young Things Party On In London

nytimes.com | BEN BRANTLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-Theater, West End, Satire, Terence Rattigan, Bright Young Things, Theatre, Theater, World War II, National Theatre, After the Dance, Playwright, Arts News

I spent the better part of Wednesday night nursing a hangover. (Vicariously, I mean. I have had exactly two martinis -- oh, all right, and one bloody ...

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Wherefore Theater? Why Is the Ancient Art Still Here?

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Play, New Plays, Musical Theater, Tony Kushner, Theatre, Theater, Margaret Edson, Shakespeare, Robert Redford, Playwright, Actors, Improv, Arianna Huffington, Arts News

With every kind of digital distraction, and ever cheaper and more convenient ways to entertain oneself, what is theater doing here? Wherefore bother with theater?

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Tom Stoppard Fears Loss Of Printed Page, Thinks Educational Focus Has Shifted Away From Humanities

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Humanities Education, Humanities, Books, Sir Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Future of Books, Playwright, Books News

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has spoken of his fear that the "printed page" is being lost in a "world of technology"....

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Exclusive: A Tony Nominee Quartet Reflect on the Coming Night

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tonys, Montego Glover, Jude Law, Broadway, Awards, Valerie Harper, Eddie Redmayne, Actors, Playwright, John Logan, New York News

With the Tony's almost upon us, here's a quartet of short interviews garnered at a recent press event from stars nominated for various awards in both musicals and dramatic plays.

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Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on "Ups and Downs," Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Doubt, John Patrick Shanley, Joe Versus the Volcano, The Miracle Worker, Oscars, Theater, Plays, Pulitzer, Moonstruck, Cyrano, Playwright, New York News

Late last year, as part of the American Theater Wing's book The Play That Changed My Life, Shanley spoke out on those that inspired him throughout his career.

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Life As An Artist

Wallace Shawn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Wallace Shawn, Writer, Artists, Playwright, Wally Shawn, New Yorkers, New York News

I've always somewhat hated being "me" and only me. I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from other points of view.

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Gender Bias in Theatre -- Digging a Little Deeper

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theatre, Theater, Playwrighting, Playwright, Woman and Theater, Entertainment News

Anyone who says they are not producing a woman because her play won't make money can no longer get away with it. The argument is gone and should be unmasked as what it is -- sexism.

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Art Knows No Race

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josephine Tonight, Lincoln Center, New York Times, August Wilson, Bartlett Sher, African Americans, Pulitzer Prize, Playwright, Time Out, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Entertainment News

We are so blessed by our capacity to get beyond our own skins, our own sexuality, and our own fortunes, that all of us can enter into the world of the other and find that their world is our own world, after all.

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Third Screen: David Henry Hwang on Defining Yourself in a Shifting World

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interviews, Playwriting, Americans, Chinese Culture, Theatre, Broadway, Elton John, French, Theater, Plays, Madame Butterfly, Playwright, David Henry Hwang, Timothy Rice, Happiness, Obama Celebration, Entertainment News

DHH: Theater is uniquely positioned to address issues of community simply because it's not mass media. I do some work in theater. I do some work in film and television.

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Pinter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Britain, Harold Pinter, Christmas Eve, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter Death, Plays, Death, Playwright, Entertainment News

Harold Pinter once said, "Being thrown out of the U.S. embassy in Ankara with Arthur Miller, a voluntary exile, was one of the proudest moments of my life."

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Some of His Best Friends

Jennie Blackton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sitcoms, Producers, Comedy Writers, Democratic Politics, George Furth Eulogy, Playwright, Entertainment News

A bouquet of eulogies for the playwright and actor, George Furth, who died at 75 last week. These titles are simply the way George would surely introduce us to each other.

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