And I think that makes me a much better dramatist.
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Meantime, ever the dramatist, he compares himself to Thomas Cromwell.
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Making death a public event is risky for a dramatist.
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English dramatist Christopher Marlowe is now considered a close collaborator of Shakespeare.
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The further I dug, the more gripped I became as a dramatist.
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As a dramatist, Ms. Skinner might be described as a fatalist feminist.
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The play revived O'Neill's flagging reputation and cemented him as a great dramatist.
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As a dramatist, when there's a massive amount of smoke, there's probably fire.
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A shaping dramatist for whom the human drama is at once sexual, spiritual and intellectual.
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It seemed like a bizarre conjunction, that of a Gaelic dramatist and an American balladeer.
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One of Abdoh's signature styles as a dramatist was to remake works in his own image.
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Mr. Shepard, of course, went on to movie stardom and success as a major American dramatist.
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Storytelling innovations like that go a long way towards explaining why he is considered a notable dramatist.
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Better still was the fact that they would say whatever the dramatist/patriarch needed them to say.
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Wagner wrote his own German librettos and considered himself as much a poet-dramatist as a composer.
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Those psychosexual dynamics demonstrate what spells Mr. Harris can cast as a dramatist, dialogist, satirist and shrink.
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Puccini is the model, though he was a more savvy dramatist who saved soaring melodies for crucial moments.
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"Marnie," with a libretto by the dramatist Nicholas Wright, too often feels like a play with noirish underscoring.
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What does the Belgian dramatist Ivo van Hove have in common with the American-Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright?
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Supreme classicist, supreme modernist and still underrated as a superlative Romantic and dramatist, he remains ballet's dominant figure.
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I can't think of another American dramatist since Tennessee Williams who writes with the generous lyricism of Wilson.
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It's an irony that wouldn't have been lost on Machiavelli, whom Boucheron deems an inveterate dramatist and irrepressible trickster.
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Between 1985 and 1998, the Italian-Belgian dramatist directed nearly all of the Canadian entertainment company's most prestigious shows.
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The mere mention of the feted dramatist may have many scurrying in the other direction: too lofty, inaccessible, pretentious.
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He's a dramatist and a linguist who can be glorious about the ordinariness and misery of duty and work.
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But Chekhov, possibly more than any dramatist, benefits from ensemble playing that gives every participant his or her due.
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He wasn't a musical dramatist but a songwriter, and by 1950 he saw which way the wind was blowing.
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The chapters of the life and personae of Ms. Schreck — a successful dramatist and television writer — are not clearly drawn.
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With hindsight, can we see it clearly as something more than a piece of overwrought juvenilia from a brilliant dramatist?
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Henning Mankell, a Swedish crime writer and dramatist, called Mr Couto "one of the richest and most important authors in Africa".
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Would ever a poet think of repeating half of his poem, a dramatist a whole act, a novelist a whole chapter?
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It's a credit to Mr. Akhtar's skills as a dramatist that such questions soon fade as deeper truths and questions emerge.
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Similar questions were addressed within a far different context: a talk two days later by novelist, screenwriter, and dramatist Ulrich Peltzer.
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He was also, in several works, ballet's greatest dramatist — there is no contradiction here, for drama pervades his non-narrative work.
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This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 63 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered.
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The photographs were compiled as a gift for dramatist Sir Henry Taylor (the album is known as the Henry Taylor Album).
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The Italian conductor Michele Mariott will lead the orchestra; Alvis Hermanis, a Latvian actor and dramatist known for his innovative stagings, directs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The French dramatist, critic, and artist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is a difficult figure to pigeonhole.
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The libretto, by Hans Müller, is based on a 1917 play by the Austrian dramatist Hans Kaltneker, who specialized in Expressionist mysticism.
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The man was Jimmy Breslin, a columnist, novelist, dramatist and biographer, about halfway through a career that began in the late 1940s.
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We have now learned that as a dramatist, Trump's skills may go beyond acting to include devising and then orchestrating elaborate ruses.
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And knowing that it was created by a writer who was just discovering his voice as a dramatist only increases its impact.
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Dramatist Emi Howell said she was so distressed to read about Zaghari-Ratcliffe's plight she decided to write a play to raise awareness.
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The much-lauded dramatist has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, to be given on Dec. 3.
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There is a story that the dramatist Aeschylus was prosecuted for revealing truths about the Mysteries in his plays but was found innocent.
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Perhaps his greatest discovery is Teresa Deevy (1894-1963), an Irish dramatist who flourished at the Abbey Theater in Dublin in the 1930s.
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There is a dramatist called Shon Dale-Jones who's been making plays that are basically storytelling pieces, and I see them for inspiration.
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But even in "Time and the Conways" he is more than a philosophical faddist and domestic dramatist: He is an astute social critic.
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The Swiss dramatist and author Friedrich Dürrenmatt is considered an international writer of classic plays, but is popular only in German-speaking countries.
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The installation is a collaboration between dramatist and anthropologist Valentine Losseau, artists Prune Nourry and Takao Shiraishi, and magicians Raphaël Navarro and Étienne Saglio.
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"A screenplay written by a major dramatist, starring Maggie Smith, in the original location; I can't pretend there was a struggle," Mr. Hytner said.
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But as a dramatist — oh, that's too pretentious — as a television writer, I like to think of it as the decisions that people make.
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Based on the play "Attila, King of the Huns" by German dramatist Zacharias Werner, the opera revolves around the hated Huns' conquest of Italy.
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Spicer and Priebus were easy prey because the dramatist (read President) had introduced them to us as characters who would inevitably be killed off.
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The focal point of "Hungry" is a dramatist of some renown, Thomas Gabriel, who has been dead for several months when the play begins.
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After working for a while at the Unemployment Action Center, he realized that being a "fake lawyer" was ideal training for an aspiring dramatist.
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When it comes to controversial, politically minded and sexually frank writers, the Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler is one of Ms. Jelinek's most important predecessors.
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"The Peony Pavilion," written in 1598 by the dramatist Tang Xianzu, can run almost a full 24 hours if performed in its complete form.
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So does the fact that it marks the belated Broadway debut of Ms. Nottage, a justly acclaimed dramatist of ambitious scope and fierce focus.
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One of his idols, Sean O'Casey, a great Irish dramatist, advised him to stop wasting his time with autographs and write something of his own.
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The images in Payne's work allude to some of the themes unearthed in Lucas Michael's paintings, Limousine Leather and Dramatist and Give No. 3 (white).
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The cartoonist, novelist and dramatist Jules Feiffer has only a handful of feature film screenwriting credits to his name, but each one is something special.
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It was always a canard that Jerry Herman, the big-thump tunesmith, and Stephen Sondheim, the big-think musical dramatist, represented opposing and hostile camps.
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The bleak, mythic vistas of the dramatist Sam Shepard and the novelist Cormac McCarthy come to mind, as well as films by Peckinpah and Ford.
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This is an adaptation of the play of the same name by the British dramatist Sarah Kane, who committed suicide in 1999, shortly after completing it.
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And a few topical jokes and moments of meta-reference (the Son's own son is a dramatist, writing a play about his grandmother) are irritatingly facile.
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This magnifying focus summons thoughts of another great American dramatist, Arthur Miller, and his belief in the possibilities of the common man as a tragic hero.
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The tale of a troubled schoolteacher, it transferred to London, where Mr. Storey, who had seldom gone to the theater, found himself acclaimed as a dramatist.
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These two monologues in repertory from the British dramatist Philip Ridley — told from the perspectives of seriously disturbed narrators — begin in shadow and progress steadily into midnight.
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Written by the Italian dramatist Stefano Massini, "The Lehman Trilogy" was staged in Paris (in 2013) and Milan (in 2015), where it clocked in at five hours.
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" In The New York Times Ben Brantley called it "the first work I have known from this ever-questing dramatist in which the ideas overwhelm the characters.
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Rewind Putting a sardonic spin on a modern classic of misanthropy, the movie "Hyenas" transposes a dark comedy by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt to rural Senegal.
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Thus delivered, the script now registers as the product of a restless and very talented young dramatist, showing off and playing with the influences he has absorbed.
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The writer, in this instance, is Christina Masciotti, a downtown dramatist of rigorous personal style whose following includes a lot of theatergoers who consider Broadway a wasteland.
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This is, of course, because "Succession" is a drama, and the job of the dramatist is to surface ironies that characters — and, often, the audience — can't see themselves.
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Credit...Gareth McConnell for The New York Times Toward the end of 2015, Peter Morgan, the British dramatist and screenwriter, received a small brown envelope in the mail.
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Mr. Stone, an Australian director and dramatist, has transplanted Lorca's poetic folk tale of a provincial Spanish woman's yearning to have a child into the London of today.
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The play is a novice effort by a fledgling dramatist, but it isn't helped by Mr. Staller's additions to the text, which have none of Shaw's comic acerbity.
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There, Bernat intended to bury it as part "The Place of the Thing," his collaboration with dramatist Roberto Fratini that considers a Nazi-pioneered form of mass theater.
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It's the noise being artfully coaxed from audiences by the British dramatist Richard Bean and a precision-tooled ensemble of great pretenders at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
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Like the old English bard, he is an expert dramatist whose subjects can suffer in the deepest wells of tragedy or indulge in the capricious follies of comedy.
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Starting with Romulus Linney in 1991, Signature has devoted successive seasons to the work of a single dramatist, "the misfits as well as the hits," as Mr. Houghton says.
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The initial season was devoted to Romulus Linney, a prolific and daring but largely unsung dramatist whose play "Heathen Valley" Mr. Houghton had appeared in a few years earlier.
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Mr. Greenspan, who has won six Obie Awards for his work as an Off Broadway actor and dramatist, has always had an affection for the avant-garde of yore.
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You can see bright sparks, though, of the mature dramatist in the making, as well as flashes of the trenchant wit and contemplative melancholy that would become his signature.
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But this "Government Inspector," which uses a freewheeling but spiritually faithful adaptation by the American dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher, reminds us of the cathartic value of exaggerating the already grotesque.
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She takes the lead in his similarly low-key new one, playing Jessica, an aspiring dramatist still dealing with heartbreak over the end of her relationship with Damon (Lakeith Stanfield).
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Center Jay Guillermo said he was never worried about pressure unnerving Watson, or that the early-season criticism might turn him into a freewheeling dramatist with a point to make.
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And her brooding work on contrabass flute wound up serving as a setup for one booming, climactic pulse from Mr. Sorey, working in this moment as drummer and dramatist both.
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Ms. Maxwell was also New York's finest interpreter of the work of the renegade British dramatist Howard Barker, in whose plays she appeared Off Broadway with the Potomac Theater Project.
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Both date from the period when Mozart achieved full mastery as a dramatist (with the operas "Le Nozze di Figaro" in 1786 and "Don Giovanni" in 1787), and both show it.
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"The play by Albert Gurney, a prominent American dramatist, is professionally written and spot-on when it comes to character sketching, but no more than that," the critic, Nina Agisheva, wrote.
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It expanded into conversation with people they knew in the theater industry — Gunnels is a former theater critic — and soon playwright and audio dramatist Mac Rogers signed on to write the series.
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He approaches this theme from myriad directions, sketching the subtext-rich relationship of an older couple, complete with characterizations and details of clothes and personality that reveal his gifts as a dramatist.
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Nor is "Something Clean" — which opened on Wednesday in a Roundabout Underground production, sensitively directed by Margot Bordelon — a work you might expect from a rising American dramatist in her mid-20s.
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Pretty much everything in the 1980 drama "Translations," a play about place-naming that is one of the two certifiable masterpieces ("Faith Healer" is the other) from Brian Friel, the Irish dramatist.
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A dramatist of ferociously specific imagination, Mr. Walsh revels in placing bewildered but feisty characters in hermetically sealed environments, creating what might be described as ontological equivalents of the locked room mystery.
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Once recast as L'Hotel in the 1960s, it became watering hole de choix for glitterati, including the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, the French poet, dramatist, screenwriter and novelist.
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A play whose characters are all white, written by an African-American dramatist, "Appropriate" shares with "The Doctor" a desire to subvert preconceptions, starting with a title that works on multiple levels.
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The four characters of this early work by Mr. McDonagh, an Anglo-Irish dramatist with a wit as hard and black as anthracite coal, also appear to have grown a few sizes.
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"A Piece of My Mind," in which an embittered dramatist tries to turn an autobiographical novel into a play, received favorable reviews but ran only briefly in the West End in 1987.
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He will come to understand the immortal words of American dramatist Wilson Mizner but too late: "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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Long fabled as a director, script doctor and dramatist, Ms. May first became famous as a master of improvisational comedy, instantly inventing fully detailed, piquantly neurotic characters who always leaned slightly off-kilter.
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The title reflects the tension in this offering from the boldly topical dramatist Lynn Nottage, who won a Pulitzer Prize for chronicling the price of survival in a Congolese brothel in "Ruined" (2009).
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Or were they doing the reverse, cracking open current events (Tony Blair's dissimulation, the media's complicity with the "weapons of mass destruction" lie, Gaddafi's rise) with the timeless lessons of a long dead dramatist?
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With the collaboration of the always intriguing experimental director (and dramatist) Richard Maxwell and his New York City Players, Ms. Drury has created a work that focuses on fixed images culled from life's flux.
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Yet in play after play, this prolific and elegant dramatist — whose hauntingly sober comedy "Later Life" has been revived by the Keen Company — created characters who were facing the Darwinian end of their species.
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" Just a scant 20 years later, another minor English dramatist, Richard Flecknoe, was anecdotally given credit for penning this ditty: "Now Friday came, you old wives say, Of all the week's the unluckiest day.
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The result is that you feel at every turn a direct engagement with a dramatist whom Ms. Rice, by contrast, sometimes seemed at odds with, as if the verse were an irritation to be overcome.
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One obvious forerunner of Ms. Wade's frolics here is Luigi Pirandello's genre-bending "Six Characters in Search of an Author," the 1921 classic in which a dramatist and his characters come to an uneasy face-off.
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"Jitney" is also the work, Wilson said, in which he found his voice as a dramatist, one that borrowed from the musical traditions of blues and jazz, transliterated into spoken dialogue and monologues of Shakespearean eloquence.
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It doesn't — at least not if you're familiar with the crowded canon of Mr. LaBute, a prolific dramatist and filmmaker whose quality may vary but who can never be accused of going off message as an artist.
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The industry standard of 6 percent that Mr. Piliero speaks of has been what is typically paid for Dramatist Guild arrangements for Broadway shows, post-recoupment, and covers the music, lyrics and book, according to entertainment lawyers.
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The ensemble, small though it is, illuminates an overlooked aspect of an artist we may think we know well: his skill, not just as gentle icon-maker but as a dramatist, a spinner of sharply observed narratives.
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He has received a 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant, a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, a 2017 ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a 2016/2017 Dramatist Guild fellowship, and was the 2017 Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-in-Residence.
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The British dramatist Philip Ridley, whose excellent "Dark Vanilla Jungle" and "Tonight With Donny Stixx" are in repertory at Here, is notorious for testing the palates of theatergoers who think they prefer their humor black, strong and bitter.
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The script, by Anthony Weigh, is itself adapted from a French source, "Le Voyageur Sans Bagage" (The Traveler Without Luggage), written in 1937 by Jean Anouilh, a once-fashionable dramatist who is performed with notable infrequency these days.
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Neither Mr. Graham's "Labour of Love" (at the Noël Coward Theater in the West End) nor Mr. Bartlett's "Albion" (at the Almeida in Islington) is likely to be the work for which either dramatist will be best remembered.
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Mr. Stephens, a British playwright best known for his Tony-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," is an uncannily subtle dramatist who never wears his depths on the surface.
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No theater or dates have been announced yet, but three-time Academy Award-nominated dramatist Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything) will pen the musical's book, with Tony winner Michael Mayer (American Idiot, Head Over Heels) directing.
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Not the kind that one of his homicidal characters might use to flay the flesh of an enemy (or relative), but the sort that a cunning dramatist plunges deep into a theatergoer's attention and refuses to release until the final curtain.
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They disagreed over who should be entrusted with the design and the job was handed to the English dramatist and sometime architect Sir John Vanbrugh who had worked with Nicholas Hawksmoor on the baroque behemoth of Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
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Theater Review LONDON — The third time proves the charm of a palpably different sort with "The Truth," the unexpectedly giddy new play from the prolific French dramatist Florian Zeller, whose London plays to date have not been known for their laughs.
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But for theater aficionados, "The Red Letter Plays" also allow us a chance to consider the extraordinary and elusive talent of Ms. Parks, a dramatist who, like the great Caryl Churchill, seems to reinvent the form with every new offering.
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But British dramatist Stephen Jeffreys's work is so rigorous in its emotional truth, so complex in its intellectual arguments, and so comical when comedy is the only fallback position, that nothing (including simulated shagging and a dildo dance) seems gratuitous.
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But listening again to the 15 major stage works for which he has served as both composer and lyricist, I find myself thinking not of Sondheim the word man or of Sondheim the music man but of Sondheim the dramatist.
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" Despite their outrage at O'Neill's treatment of his children, they note "the relentless expenditure of self that it cost him while shaping a play," calling it "innately impossible for him to be both an attentive father and a visionary dramatist.
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The play's combination of theatrical technique and untrammeled imagination, and of the personal and the universal, make you understand why Ms. Churchill is regarded by many (rightly, I think) as the most dazzlingly inventive living dramatist in the English language.
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Wall Street in particular showed Stone's gifts as a dramatist: There's no question that it was a harsh critique of America's financial elites and its economic system, and yet it recognized the genuine allure of that system and its most powerful players.
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She's released an EP of remixes and reworks of "Arisen My Senses," aided by three of most exciting synthesists and percussion contorters working right now: the techno dramatist Kelly Lee Owens, the prismatic footwork contortionist Jlin, and Scottish electro-abstractor Lanark Artefax.
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The saturnine point of view expressed by this country doctor and fledgling dramatist — who had yet to write the four great plays for which he is best known — feels uncomfortably contemporary in this anxious American season of public distrust and blood-sport elections.
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Just as playwrights' artistic development can be charted through their work, critics tell us who they are—and how they grow, or don't grow—when they're fortunate enough to be able to focus on a particular dramatist over a period of time.
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But in such clear opposites is drama forged, if you're a good dramatist, and some of the book's most touching moments come when Harry tries to connect with his difficult son — haltingly, fearfully, fully aware that orphan parents have no experience in such matters.
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Though this dramatist — the author of the recent "Wolf in the River" and the Pulitzer Prize finalist "Red Light Winter" — creates vicious characters who do unspeakable things to one another, he tends to regard their savagery not with a sneer but a furtive tear.
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When audience members ask Mr. Carroll how Shaw might have reacted to these changes, he has an answer at the ready — a letter Shaw wrote in about 1930 to Barry Jackson, who wanted to name his own summer theater festival in England after the dramatist.
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But more than this, one comes away in fresh awe of the infinite variety that Shakespeare, as no other dramatist, captured: robust comedy, plangent feeling, penetrating psychology, a grasp of dramatic tension and momentum, and above all, the thrilling alchemy of life and thought transformed into poetry.
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Adapting (very liberally) the Russian dramatist Nikolai Erdman's Stalin-era play of the same name from 1928, Suhayla El-Bushra has sought to make something trenchantly contemporary out of an archival curio; the result is a stupefying mishmash that saw not a few patrons leave at intermission.
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In tone, "I Hear You" falls somewhere between Marie Jones's frolicsome two-hander "Stones in His Pockets" (about a movie crew's invasion of a rural town) and the darker, creepier "Misterman" by Enda Walsh, a dramatist in whose works Mr. Murfi has appeared as an actor.
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It takes its title from a work by the great Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello, as well as another play that is being rehearsed by actors in Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author," who find themselves invaded by characters from still another, but unfinished, drama.
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A bathtub, not a sofa, is the defining item of furniture in "Low Level Panic," a 1988 play from the English dramatist Clare McIntyre currently receiving a bracingly acted revival at the Orange Tree Theater, an Off West End playhouse that is on quite a roll.
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