But they have no meaningful words to give each other, this husband and wife at the center of Kara Lee Corthron's flawed but compelling "Julius by Design," which is having its premiere run at the Access Theater as the inaugural presentation of Fulcrum Theater, an organization, according to the program, dedicated to supporting "playwrights of color" in New York.
Mr. Laurents, the book writer of "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," and the director of the most recent revivals of those shows on Broadway, said that he and Mr. Hatcher had discussed for a decade putting money toward supporting playwrights.
Much of the money that Ms. Khosrovani has raised -- upwards of $250,000 -- has gone into supporting American playwrights who have had difficulty getting their plays produced in the United States.
Clubbed Thumb, a New York theater company that commissions and develops new plays, and Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons are collaborating on a series of weeklong "lab" workshops to help American writers hone their new projects for the stage - one attempt at the kind of support systems that playwrights have been pleading for.
I too want to support American playwrights, but The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is simply a better theatrical experience.
In May 2012, New Dramatists, an organization that supports beginning playwrights, presented Peters with their Lifetime Achievement Award.
President Obama is opposed to a boycott of the Games, which is supported by playwright Harvey Fierstein and other public figures and LGBT activists.
They have begun a new program to work with youth in Harlem housing projects and have continued a program of readings to support emerging minority playwrights.
Dramatically Mr. Sagi is intrigued by the supporting character of a playwright, Plagio — as in plagiarism?
