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Great Contemporary American Playwrights: Noteworthy and Award-Winning Playwrights 20th and 21st Century

By: Terah Talley

David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly: A Critique of Western Attitudes Toward Asia

By: Admassu Kebede

Top Contemporary American Playwrights: Noteworthy and Award-Winning Playwrights 20th and 21st Century

By: Terah Talley

Contemporary American Playwrights: Noteworthy and Award-Winning Playwrights 20th and 21st Century

By: Terah Talley

The History of Light: World Premier of Eisa Davis Play Takes Place at CATF

By: Frances Ponick

Yankee Tavern: A Review: Contemporary American Theater Festival Produces New Heller Play

By: Frances Ponick

Fifty Words: Michael Heller's New Play Performed at CATF at Shepherd University

By: Frances Ponick

Farragut North: Contemporary American Theater Festival Produces New Willimon Play

By: Frances Ponick

Dear Sara Jane: Contemporary American Theater Festival Produces New Lodato Play

By: Frances Ponick

Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge: 1950s’ Drama Set Around The Brooklyn Docks

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Arthur Miller: The Crucible: The McCarthy Era and The Salem Witch Trials

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother: Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Arthur Miller's All My Sons: American Post-World War Two Play

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Lynn Nottage Play Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama: 'Ruined' picked for 2009 Award by Pulitzer Committee

By: JD Eames

The Spanish Prisoner - Short Play - Review: David Mamet's Study in the Art of Manipulation

By: Martin G. Wood

Charles Mee and Under Construction - An Overview: 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays

By: JD Eames

Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller's Play About The American Dream Turned Nightmare

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Wild Blessings - An Overview: 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays

By: JD Eames

Universes Ensemble's Ameriville - An Overview: 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays

By: JD Eames

U.S. Playwright Horton Foote: Award-winning American Dramatist

By: JD Eames

Actors Theatre of Louisville's New Play Festival: 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays

By: JD Eames

Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy: Canadian Playwright of This is Wonderland and The Innocent Eye Test

By: Sarah B. Hood

African-American Playwright August Wilson: Interview With Playwright of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Etc.

By: Sarah B. Hood

Actor and Playwright Sam Shepard: Early Life of Author of "True West", "Far North", "Fool for Love"

By: Ginger McCarthy

Tennessee Williams Literary Fest: Festival Highlights Stella and Stanley Kowalski and Camino Real

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

Black Nativity by Langston Hughes: A Musical African-American Holiday Tradition

By: Sharyn Skeeter

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