As playwright, worldwide explorer and social lion he had easy access, and faithfully reported to one government official.
As playwright, he inhabits a middle zone, with one foot lifted toward the stars and one planted firmly on the earth — the soil of his beloved England.
As playwright and director, Alan Ayckbourn understands that a text is to a play what a score is to a concert: the sine qua non but not the be-all and end-all; both are nothing without players and audience.
As playwright, Mr. Shawn has set Jack's appeal in relief against the characters of Judy and Howard, who are just the sort of surface-smug people that live in the public consciousness under the rubric "intellectual elite".
As playwright, Mr. Shawn has set Jack's appeal in relief against the characters of Judy and Howard, who are just the sort of surface-smug people that live in the public consciousness under the rubric "intellectual elite". The play is a defense of them, and of the compassion that a belief in art and beauty instills in any human being.
As playwright, Anne Meara has just the right touch of cool in sending for Stella and her husband, Sid (whom Stella partnered on the Borscht Belt when she could have been playing Chekhov), to lighten up what woulda and coulda been, another variation on the what-if musings of us all.
As playwright and "Boardwalk Empire" scribe Moses put it, "One of the great things about [TV is] simply the fact of having a boss, hours, an office I had to go to every day, externally imposed deadlines — all the things that, as a playwright, you generally have to invent for yourself.
As playwright Yussef El Guindi, whose "Back of the Throat" was staged by Rodriguez in 2006, puts it, "Damaso knows how to keep a play right at that sharp edge without tipping it over and making it lose its coiled energy". The same balancing act is needed to keep a major institution vital: get the bills paid, but also keep the audience moving in adventurous directions.
