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Books on: american playwright

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Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index

Book by Bernard L. Peterson Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

African American Dramatists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Bibliography, American Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Drama--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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...perfd. by the author at the American Place Theatre, New York...developing his skills as a playwright. In 1977 he became resident playwright with the Negro Ensemble...1983 he has been resident playwright at Arizona State Univ...a Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Award, 1979-80, and...
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Male Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Gay Men's Writings, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Gay Men--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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...broke up. Albee had met playwright Terrence McNally,* with...him as an important young playwright who aerated the American theatrical environment with...most important American playwright of his generation. Albee...beginning of a decline in the playwrights standing. At this time...
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Genesis of an American Playwright

Book by Horton Foote, Marion Castleberry; Baylor University Press, 2004

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Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography, Foote, Horton--Childhood And Youth, Foote, Horton--Homes And Haunts--Texas--Wharton, Screenwriters--United States--Biography, Texas--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Texas--Social Life And Customs

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...unnamed lecture Advice to Young Playwrights, and I have changed the...Harrison, USA, because the playwright felt that the original title...Screen, and Thoughts on the American Theater, because each section...his apprenticeship with the American Actors Company. These three...the book, Genesis of an American Playwright, also reflects...
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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950

Book by Yvonne Shafer; Peter Lang, 1997

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American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Drama, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women In Literature

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...concerns about women in American society, but she was nearing...for other budding women playwrights. She was the only American woman playwright to write poetic drama successfully...the forefront of American playwrights in 1910. Although largely...have been a major American playwright. In a period in which dozens...
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Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography

Book by Dana A. Williams; Greenwood Press, 1998

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African Americans In Literature--Bibliography, American Drama--20th Century--Bibliography, American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism--Bibliography, American Drama--African American Authors--Bibliography, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism--Bibliography, American Drama--Women Authors--Bibliography, American Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Bibliography, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century--Bibliography

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...and the Plight of the American Intellectual." Players...Hansberry: The Visionary American Playwright." DAI 50 / 5 1988...The Drama of Black American Women." Feminine Focus. The New Women Playwrights . Ed. Enoch Brater...

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Journal Articles on: american playwright

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From Seeking One's Voice to Uttering the Scream: The Pioneering Journey of African American Women Playwrights through the 1960s and 1970s

Journal article by Olga Barrios; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

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African American dramatists--History, African American dramatists--Social aspects, African American playwrights--History, African American playwrights--Social aspects, Women dramatists--History, Women dramatists--Social aspects, Women playwrights--History, Women playwrights--Social aspects

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...metaphor for the African American womans experience...as African American playwright Sonia Sanchez has...African American women playwrights that the theater presents...component in these playwrights struggle to shape African American women playwrights...affirmation both as African Americans and as women. Indeed...throughout African American history: "Black...
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Philip C. Kolin, Ed. the Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights

Journal article by Michael Paller; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights (Essay collection)--Book reviews

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...Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights. by Michael Paller...Fifteen American Playwrights. Jefferson, N...of enquiry into a playwright who is most associated...similarities (both playwrights eschew naturalism...formidable African-American writer directly absorbed...a white American playwright on three prominent...
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Philip C. Kolin, Ed.: The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights

Journal article; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights. Philip C. Kolin, ed. The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008. Pp. x + 229...
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"Popular" Admired. Well-liked. Trendy. in Style. All the Rage. Popular Playwrights. Popular Performers. Popular Entertainment. Popular Culture

Journal article by Heather S. Nathans, Robert Vorlicky; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 18, 2006

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Dramatists, Miller, Arthur (Playwright), Personal profiles, Popular culture, Theater criticism

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...All the Rage. Popular Playwrights. Popular Performers. Popular...of Americas most produced playwrights during his astonishingly...Millers contributions to the American theatre since his death...hearts of nineteenth-century Americans, a troupe of British-born...slapstick comedy of early American film-inspiring artists...
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Telling the Truth: Alice Childress as Theorist and Playwright

Journal article by Olga Dugan; The Journal of African American History, 2002

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African American women--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American drama--Evaluation, American drama--History, American drama--Social aspects, Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Childress, Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...professional career as a playwright. As Samuel Hay writes in African American Theatre, Florence...decades. The playwrights primary goal...of the black playwright according to...by which black playwrights can make the African American people subject...Domestics in Black American Literature...Plays by Black Playwrights," CLA Journal...Black Woman Playwright as Feminist Critic...

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Magazine Articles on: american playwright

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Aunt Ester's Children: A Century on Stage; This Essay, Which Serves as the Preface to King Hedley II (TCG Books), Was Written in the Spring of 2000, before the Playwright Had Begun the Final Two Plays in His 20th-Century Cycle. It First Appeared in the New York Times (April 23, 2000)

Magazine article by August Wilson; American Theatre, Vol. 22, November 2005

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African American dramatists--Works, African American playwrights--Works, African American theater--Criticism and interpretation

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...playwright, I am an African American. The tributary streams...my art. As an African-American playwright, I have many forebears...cultural values of black Americans to a level equal to those...failures, as well as the playwrights down through the ages who...unique particulars of black American culture as the transformation...
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Remix to Ignition: Hot, Fresh and out of the Kitchen (Sink)! A Chicago Festival Gives Playwrights of Color under 40 New Avenues for Productions

Magazine article by Eliza Bent; American Theatre, Vol. 27, February 2010

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African American dramatists--Works, African American playwrights--Works, Chicago, Illinois--Fairs and festivals, Theater--Fairs and festivals

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...younger, ethnically diverse playwrights. Two years later, Ignition, a festival dedicated to playwrights of color under 40, was...of readings to follow. Playwright OyamO kicked off the festival...festival, the work of the playwrights gained visibility. For...Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award spiked interest...
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Back to Alabama with Cleage and Baldwin: 2 Southern Playwrights Get Personal with the History of the Civil Rights Movement

Magazine article by Wendell Brock; American Theatre, Vol. 27, October 2010

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Baldwin, Margaret (American playwright), Civil rights movements, Cleage, Pearl, Dramatists, Night Blooms (Play), Playwrights, The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years (Play)

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...and Baldwin: 2 Southern Playwrights Get Personal with the History...debuting this fall, Atlanta playwrights Pearl Cleage and Margaret...a well-established playwright (Blues for an Alabama Sky...writing space, the two playwrights met for the first time and...starting to deal with it, we American writers, in all its specificity...
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Miller's Tale: The Playwright Drew a Line between Reaching out and Selling Out

Magazine article by Wendy Smith; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Spring 2005

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Dramatists--Appreciation, Dramatists--Biography, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Influence, Miller, Arthur--Appreciation, Miller, Arthur--Criticism and interpretation, Miller, Arthur--Influence, Playwrights--Appreciation, Playwrights--Biography, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Influence

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...like them. Younger playwrights and composers have learned...theater in the mainstream American cultural landscape...his successors in the American theater. Those dimmed...welcoming to serious playwrights as it was to the young...In many ways, the American theater is more democratic...
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Where Do We Go from Here? Four Playwrights Anticipate the Seismic Shifts of the New Century

Magazine article by Mark Bly; American Theatre, Vol. 24, April 2007

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Dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theater--Forecasts and trends

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...21st century the American theatre must embrace...premieres by American playwrights. Nilo Cruz, David...challenge facing you as a playwright in the 21st century...people ask me, "What playwrights do you most admire...here and I am an American playwright. Yes, that Latino...but it does alter a playwrights view. How do you...

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Newspaper Articles on: american playwright

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Bedeviled Life That Gave an American Playwright His Therapy and His Plays

Newspaper article by Jayne M. Blanchard; The Washington Times, February 27, 2000

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O'Neill, Eugene

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Bedeviled life that gave an American playwright his therapy...descriptions fit American playwright Eugene ONeill (1888...that would trace an American familys history from...freedom and bliss. American playwrights dont dream that big...
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Mystery Is Solved; TOP AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT VISITED REGION WITH GEORDIE SUPERSTAR

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 9, 2010

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Drama, Plays

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Mystery Is Solved; TOP AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT VISITED REGION WITH GEORDIE SUPERSTAR...this week along with a mystery playwright on a fact-finding mission to...in the gaps and the name of the playwright he flew in from America. He is...
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THIS IS THE BLACK CHEKHOV; American Playwright August Wilson Made the Black Experience Universal, Adjoa Andoh, Star of His Latest Young Vic Revival, Tells Nick Curtis

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 2, 2010

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Andoh, Adjoa

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THIS IS THE BLACK CHEKHOV; American Playwright August Wilson Made the Black...Almeida. But we need more black playwrights and television commissioning...in Pittsburgh about the black American experience, post-slavery...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE; Laughter Zone: Jokes Are Aplenty in American Playwright Bruce Norris's Satire the Pain and the Itch

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 5, 2007

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CRITICS CHOICE; Laughter Zone: Jokes Are Aplenty in American Playwright Bruce Norriss Satire the Pain and the Itch. Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH The Pain and the Itch Jerwood Theatre, Downstairs at the...
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Inspired by an American in Cullercoats; PLAYWRIGHT Shelagh Stephenson Tells DAVID WHETSTONE about the Enigma of Winslow Homer

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 9, 2010

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Homer, Winslow--Criticism and interpretation

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Inspired by an American in Cullercoats; PLAYWRIGHT Shelagh Stephenson Tells DAVID...about the 22 months spent by the American painter Winslow Homer in Cullercoats...What is this really successful American painter doing in this North East...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american playwright

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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Alarcon , the Mexican-born playwright, generally considered one...colonial period in Spanish American history and letters came to...author of the first Spanish American novel, The Itching Parrot...1820) is the first Spanish American romantic poem. Among the...
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James, Henry , American Novelist and Critic

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JAMES, HENRY , American novelist and critic 1843 1916, American novelist and critic, b...Roderick Hudson (1876), The American (1877), Daisy Miller...eager, though often brash, Americans. In the novels of his middle...to win recognition as a playwright, James wrote a series of...
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Wilson, August

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...AUGUST 1945 2005, American playwright and poet, b. Pittsburgh...brought about by racist American society. Wilsons plays...and identity of African Americans and the deleterious effect of white American institutions on black...
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Mamet, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MAMET, DAVID mamet , 1947 , American playwright and film director, b. Chicago...the success and failure of the American dream, is noted for its sharp...Perversity in Chicago (1974) and American Buffalo (1975), later achieving...
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Wilder, Thornton Niven

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...THORNTON NIVEN 1897 1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison...achieve critical recognition as a playwright until the production of Our Town...most frequently produced of all American plays, it relates a panoramic...

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