Definition of playwright
: a person who writes plays
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The American playwright presented the 1953 play as a parable about the dangers of McCarthyism, when the government ostracized suspected Communists who often lost their jobs or were even imprisoned.
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In the face of the playwright’s muddled symbolism and lengthy exposition, Wright moves this production briskly along.
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The idea behind this recital from a noted countertenor and a lutenist is simple: Shakespeare’s words, set to music, interspersed with readings from the playwright, given by the actor Simon Jones.
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Samuel Beckett, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist and playwright, struggled endlessly with the theme.
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David Hare is, of course, a playwright, so the neatness of Collateral shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.
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Shakespeare's gender politics are not our own, but neither is Shakespeare's genius, even at this relatively early phase of the playwright's development.
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Aspiring to become a playwright, Mr. Bochco studied theater at what is now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1966.
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McNally is among American theatre’s greatest living contemporary playwrights, having won four Tony awards in the 1990s – two for plays and two for musicals.
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