Sentence examples for as the playwright of from inspiring English sources

Well, the film is a labor of love: Henry Jaglom is the writer and director, as well as the playwright of the stage work on which it's based.

Chichester Festival Theatre, Sat to 2 Aug LG William Inge was known as "the playwright of the Midwest", with his taut family dramas.

Epitaphed everywhere as the playwright of pauses and silences, like many pacifists he remained noisily silent about what should happen in the real world.

Relations between Levin and Frank were, as usual, warm; Frank repeatedly thanked Levin for his efforts to further the fortunes of the diary, and Levin continued under the impression that Frank would support him as the playwright of choice.

This tall, regal-looking native of St. Croix, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, is directing Off Broadway for the first time thanks to a collaboration with Ms. Hall, who is herself coming off an even bigger leap, her Broadway debut as the playwright of "The Mountaintop".

Fans of Mr. Busch, who has cultivated a loyal following by creating and acting in offbeat plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" and "Psycho Beach Party" and gained wider recognition as the playwright of the more accessible "Tale of an Allergist's Wife," may like this camped-up revival of the 1956 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee based on the novel by Patrick Dennis.

But it is as a Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright that Shepard's contribution has been most significant, leading the New York Times to hail him as the "playwright laureate of the west, consistently, ruthlessly true to his experience of a wilderness where American has always hidden its promise and its dream".

* "LOBBY HERO" Kenneth Lonergan is staking a claim as the playwright laureate of New York City.

In 1625 he succeeded Fletcher, some of whose plays he revised, as the chief playwright of the King's Men (formerly Lord Chamberlain's Men).

And at the close of his writing career he co-authored three plays with John Fletcher, another promising young writer who would succeed him as the principal playwright of the King's Men.

But as the playwright Herman Daniel Farrell III, namesake of the New York State Democratic chairman, Herman D. Farrell Jr., surges up the steps of the New Dramatists club, he's a little late and a lot out of breath.