The Playwrights Company (1938–1961) was an American theatrical production company. Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert...
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the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets. The earliest playwrights in Western...
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and showcase works by Pittsburgh playwrights, ranging from August Wilson and George Kaufman to new unknown playwrights, and to "nurture a racially and...
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Playwrights' Company Time Remembered (1957) - producer via the Playwrights' Company The Rope Dancers (1957) - producer via the Playwrights' Company Silent...
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Theodore Ward (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)
writer, Ward composed more than thirty plays and co-founded the Negro Playwrights Company with Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Richard Wright. His best known...
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romantic comedy written by Samuel A. Taylor and produced by the Playwrights' Company. It ran on Broadway for a total of 318 performances, opening at the...
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by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Playwrights Horizons' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated...
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Sidney Howard (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
the Playwrights' Company founded in his honor the Sidney Howard Memorial Award. The award consisted of a prize of $1500 given to a young playwright without...
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Cherry Lane Theatre (redirect from New Playwrights Theatre)
counterculture. It regularly staged works by playwrights associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. The modernist stage company The Living Theatre was in residence...
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off-broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons. The theater school was founded in 1983 when New York University approached then Playwrights Horizons artistic...
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S. and The Culture Project. The company is also known for its "Tuesdays@9" cold reading series, where new playwrights, novelists, short-story writers...
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in the Dark as an influence. Dream Girl was first produced by the Playwrights' Company, of which Rice was a member, with the author directing his then wife...
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Rodney Seaborn (redirect from Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award)
"Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award 2007". Australian Stage Online. 23 August 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2023. "Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award: Winners...
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the traveling theater group the Chicago Uptown Circuit Players and Playwrights Company and on Broadway with the Helen Hayes Repertory Theater. In 1963,...
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The Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective was a group of professional women playwrights in New York active from 1971 to 1975. They wrote and produced...
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Playwrights Canada Press is a Canadian publishing house founded in 1984 by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. It was incorporated in 2000 as an independent...
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writer Tom Stoppard has won this award five times, more than any other playwright. Only seven other writers (Arthur Miller, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner...
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Sidney Howard Memorial Award (category Dramatist and playwright awards)
short-lived theater prize established in 1939 by the Playwrights' Company. It was designed to support new playwrights who had no notable successes but had shown...
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Theatre's production of King Henry IV in 1939. In 1940 he acted with the Playwrights' Company in Brooklyn. In addition to acting on stage, Genge directed Hamlet...
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of Randall Arney. Steppenwolf is an ensemble cast theatre company with actors, playwrights, producers, and directors in its membership. Notable past and...
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Playwrights' Center is a non-profit theatre organization focused on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters. It...
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from November 27, 1939 to February 24, 1940. It was produced by the Playwrights' Company and staged by Guthrie McClintic, with scenic design created by noted...
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professional theatre company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Plan-B develops and produces unique and socially conscious theatre created by Utah playwrights, and is a resident...
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William Shakespeare and other classics, with occasional works by modern playwrights. Most of Gorilla Rep's productions are performed outdoors, in various...
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Jonathan Marc Sherman (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
1968) is an American playwright, poet, and actor. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before...
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Toby Schmitz (category Australian dramatists and playwrights)
Australian National Playwrights' Centre/New Dramatists Award for Chicks Will Dig You 2003 Shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award for Chicks...
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Padua Playwrights Productions, or Padua, is a Los Angeles-based theater company founded in 1978 by playwright and poet Murray Mednick and John Woodruff...
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2012 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and ran from August through October 2013 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, commissioned...
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Barrymore Theatre on September 30, 1953, in a production by The Playwrights' Company, directed by Elia Kazan with scenic and lighting design by Jo Mielziner...
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Daniel Craig Jackson, also known as D.C. Jackson, is a Scottish playwright, born in 1980. His first full-length play The Wall premiered at the Tron Theatre...
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