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The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026 Shawn is one of our more conspicuously literary dramatists, in that the language tends prose-y in his plays.—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026 The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dramatist