Where are our authors and playwrights working with translators to preserve the poetry of scripture?
Might we have lost something by forcing contemporary playwrights to work on a smaller canvas?
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Finally, leaders-as-playwrights can devise and revise corporate "scripts" according to the changing business environment.
As for European playwrights, off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company did right by Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo, " in which F.
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"Feast, " directed by Rufus Norris, is an exploration of Yoruba culture, written by five playwrights (Feb. 1-23).
That may be too limited a subject to lift Mr Wilson to the very top rank of playwrights.
But authors, playwrights and actors tend to be loyal to their agents, rather than the firms that employ them.
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She will of course try to hire new agents with a gift for spotting and handling new authors and playwrights.
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The world premiere, a touching and intelligent co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, opened Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons.
Playwrights debated, sometimes quite dramatically, about the definition of censorship and how it has affected their art, careers and lives.
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These he often directs, showing exemplary concern not to impose his own artistic personality on the work of other playwrights.
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The experiment was launched again last year and attracted an international group of playwrights, all mulling current economic and political issues.
His magnet for talent led him into lifelong collaborations with dancers, playwrights, filmmakers and musicians of practically every genre and every country.
The elaborate affairs are a marked departure from his focus in the early 1990s, when he used to work closely with Singapore playwrights.
So begins Jonathan Tolins' utterly charming and often whacky one-man show that opened Wednesday at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater starring a superb Michael Urie.
Today, it remains a destination for poets, novelists, biographers, playwrights, translators, literary critics, historians, environmentalists and philosophers: a place for writers as agents of change.
That's why Heng proposes setting up an Asian playwrights' colony, where writers can gather to hone new work, and where scripts can be read and translated.
For musicians and lyricists, as well as playwrights and comedians, to be Jewish meant not only a value placed on scholarship and irony, but on employment.
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The winners were selected by a panel of nine judges that included playwrights Lynn Nottage, Itamar Moses, Diana Son and Brian Yorkey and Columbia University President Lee C.
"It's a privilege to welcome back some of the UK's most influential playwrights to the Royal Court in my penultimate season as artistic director, " said the Court's Dominic Cooke.
She would make fun of these admirers, privately, with sharp remarks on their appearance, their pretensions, and, if they were actors, directors, or playwrights, on the quality of their work.
More often, because they couldn't or wouldn't pay royalties, impresarios would either churn out their own scripts or tinker with the work of other playwrights and slap on a new title.
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Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.
In time, he pleaded guilty to this: he came to see his growing impatience with the theatre as symptomatic of a need to express himself, instead of playing handmaiden to playwrights.
It was not until four decades later that novelists and playwrights bashed down the laboratory door, put on white coats and made themselves perfectly at home among the test tubes and the bunsen burners.
Mr Anderson said that because the library was "a historic and important city gem, we want there to be an event which highlights the city's reputation for producing much-loved playwrights, storytellers, songwriters, poets and authors".
But its wry sense of the big tragedies of small spaces has made it a gold standard among directors and playwrights, which may explain why New York is now the lucky host of two acclaimed productions.
And he's snagged no less than a genuine legend to co-star with him in his quasi-autobiographical new play, "The Revisionist, " a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production directed by Kip Fagan that opened Thursday at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
The theater is now a staple in New York, premiering Pulitzer-Prize winning plays (including Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive"), launching Tony-winning musicals ("Avenue Q") and nurturing some of the city's most talented playwrights (Rajiv Joseph, Nicky Silver).
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