Playwright

Life As An Artist

Wallace Shawn | Posted 09.09.2009 | New York


Wallace Shawn

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.

Gender Bias in Theatre -- Digging a Little Deeper

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment


Melissa Silverstein

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.

Art Knows No Race

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment


Sherman Yellen

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.

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

Vickie Karp | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment


Vickie Karp

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.

Pinter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.26.2009 | Entertainment


Jayne Lyn Stahl

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."

Some of His Best Friends

Jennie Blackton | Posted 09.18.2008 | Entertainment


Jennie Blackton

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.