North American Playwrights
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Great Contemporary American Playwrights
Contemporary American playwrights, including Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and Doug Wright, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.
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David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly is a play rich with layers of meaning that attempt to deconstruct fixed perceptions about gender, race and sexuality.
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Top Contemporary American Playwrights
Contemporary American playwrights, including Tony Kushner, David Mamet, and John Patrick Shanley, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.
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Contemporary American Playwrights
Contemporary American playwrights, including George Abbott, Edward Albee, and Christopher Durang, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.
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The History of Light
A young black woman explores her long-lost father's relationship with a white woman during the college demonstrations of the 1960s.
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Yankee Tavern: A Review
Conspiracies about the 9/11 abound in this funny but confusing drama.
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Fifty Words
Speaking truth and humor, Fifty Words is a hair-raising roller-coaster ride to the heart of modern marriage.
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Farragut North
Farragut North, written by award-winning playwright Beau Willimon, was one of the highlights at CATF during the summer of 2009.
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Dear Sara Jane
The world premiere of Dear Sara Jane by award-winning playwright Victor Lodato took place during the Contemporary American Theater Festival during the summer of 2009.
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Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge
Miller's moving tragedy about Italian immigrant workers in Brooklyn. The play examines human flaws and the dramatic consequences thay can have.
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Arthur Miller: The Crucible
The Crucible is perhaps one of the more blatant instances of Miller's use of theatre to represent his socio-political views.
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Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother
'night, Mother deals candidly with the subject of suicide. It is cleverly written and deceptively simple.
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Arthur Miller's All My Sons
Arthur Miller's postwar play about social responsibility versus family responsibility, and the importance of keeping up appearances.
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Lynn Nottage Play Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
American playwright Lynn Nottage wins the Pulitzer for her play 'Ruined,' about the war against Congolese women.
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The Spanish Prisoner - Short Play - Review
The Spanish Prisoner is a very short play that somehow encapsulates the essence of David Mamet's favorite subject: the confidence game.
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Charles Mee and Under Construction - An Overview
Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company meld together to find America Under Construction at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is one of Arthur Miller's most famous plays. It is a timeless work, which is just as relevant and poignant today as it ever was.
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Wild Blessings - An Overview
With their adaptation presented at the 33rd Humana Festival, Marc Masterson and Alice-Adrien Hansel capture the spirit of Wendell Berry's poetry.
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Universes Ensemble's Ameriville - An Overview
Ameriville, by Universes, opens the 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays.
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U.S. Playwright Horton Foote
American playwright Horton Foote, born March 4, 1919, died a few days ago, on March 4, 2009.
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Actors Theatre of Louisville's New Play Festival
March 1 - April 11, 2009 the 33rd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays will come to life in Kentucky at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
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Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy
Michael Healey's award-winning new Canadian classic The Drawer Boy, set in rural Ontario, Canada, continues to enthrall audiences around the world.
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African-American Playwright August Wilson
A profile of the late August Wilson, whose Pulitzer-winning plays documented the African American experience in the 20th century.
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Actor and Playwright Sam Shepard
A glimpse of the life and work of Sam Shepard as a man, a poet and musician; as well as his imaginative work as an actor, director and playwright for audiences worldwide.
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Tennessee Williams Literary Fest
The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival features Williams' female characters, his "Streetcar Named Desire" neighborhood and newcomers competing in scenes he created.
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