Sentence examples for gifted playwright from inspiring English sources

But while it's an honorable work by a gifted playwright, it's also a custom-made work that doesn't quite fit.

Ms. Ruhl, the gifted playwright whose work has been characterized by a mixture of the feminist and the fabulist that finds a natural echo in "Orlando," modestly cedes the stage to Woolf in this economical adaptation of Woolf's 1928 novel.

The gifted playwright Stephen Karam and the lauded director Simon Godwin have lumbered the piece with ideas about class and race and economic inequality, none of them achieved clearly or forcefully in this scattered production.

Roberto agifted-Sacasa, a gifted playwright (and actual comic-book writer) was able to take a handful of ineptly sketched characters and breathe a bit more life and humanity into them.

Adapted by the gifted playwright Annie Baker ("The Aliens," "Circle Mirror Transformation") and directed by her frequent collaborator Sam Gold, this strikingly intimate "Uncle Vanya" is one of the summer's hot tickets (the sold-out run has been extended by a week), and features an A-list cast of downtown actors, many of whom have worked with Ms. Baker or Mr. Gold before.

It's less easy to indulge Evelyn's creator, the gifted playwright Jenny Schwartz, for her tendency to put the audience through a relentless spin cycle in her intermittently diverting but deeply frustrating new play, "Somewhere Fun," which opened on Tuesday night at the Vineyard Theater in a sleek production directed by Anne Kauffman.

But the shows they presented this season left one with the depressing impression that Broadway has become a place where gifted playwrights go to wither or idle.

On the evidence of this season's Broadway fare, however, it's hard to argue that gifted playwrights can only truly fulfill their promise in the theater.

Although their methods, manners and viewpoints are divergent — to say the least, given Mr. Mamet's recently proclaimed political conversion from liberalism — these two gifted playwrights have managed to arrive in New York in the same season with new works capable of sending you (well, me anyway) reeling from the theater in search of the nearest nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

It was his name that invariably appeared not just on Hart's work but on many another gifted comic playwright's sparkling hit.

And even if "Breath, Boom" is almost more of a sociological treatise than a drama, it is nonetheless a strong piece of writing by a gifted young playwright.