Following his success as a playwright from the mid-1960s, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he has made references to journalism in several of his plays.
CHRISTOPHER SHINN had wanted to be a playwright from the age of 15, when he took a trip to New York, fell in love with another boy, then went home to Connecticut and wrote a play about it.
Shakespeare's worldview is astonishingly comprehensive, but a playwright from the Elizabethan-Jacobean era would need a time machine to dream up Trump.
The character of Barton Fink is based loosely on Clifford Odets, a playwright from New York who in the 1930s joined the Group Theatre, a gathering of dramatists which included Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg.
"None of us wanted hate crime, especially me," said the foreman, Eric Zaccar, 46, a playwright from Bensonhurst, in an interview outside the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn.
"The National represents modern Britain, and in particular London, and I don't see how Muslims can identify with the National Theatre when it puts on this kind of racist work," Hussain Ismail, a playwright from Bethnal Green who has demanded the meeting with Hytner, told the Guardian.
In 1995, fledgling Theatre Banshee launched with a well-received West Coast premiere of "Eclipsed" by Patricia Burke Brogan, a playwright from Galway, at what was then the Gene Bua Acting for Life Theatre.
This semester, Divad Sanders, a poet from Newark, and Greg Holtz, a playwright from Montclair, taught a writing class at the center.
Rupert Creed, a playwright from Brighton, came to Hull when he studied at the university in 1974.
Can you recognise a playwright from their first work?
Mark Lawson's Theatre studies Can you recognise a playwright from their first work?
