Arnold Wesker's tremendous 1959 play expanded the frontiers of drama in that it was one of the first to seriously dramatise work.
His terrifying and hysterically funny portraits of angry women in family crisis in that play expanded the envelope of dysfunction and cruelty and won both the Pulitzer Prize and a fistful of Tony Awards two years ago.
It is typical of Ms. Corthron's work that instead of presenting a crisis and then solving it tidily, the play expands outward, exposing more dimensions of the central dilemma.
Mr. Gurney's "Ancestral Voices," a sort of "Love Letters" reading/hybrid play, expanded to five characters, spanning three generations, has been seen two nights a week at Lincoln Center, with stellar casts in intermittent runs.
As Mueller's squeeze play expands, another question will be how much Trump knew about Manafort's efforts to promote pro-Russian interests when he hired him to help his campaign, last March, and when he elevated Manafort to the role of campaign chairman, in June.
He also loved the set (likening the bridge to "a huge nutcracker waiting to crush them"), but thought the play, expanded for its London run from a one-act to a full-length, "so bulging with dramatic muscles that it is constantly on the verge of bursting its seams".
This lively play expands the roles of several of the movie's secondary characters, with the titular Rolfe as the focus of the story.
Lou Reed played expanded versions of "Ecstasy" and "Rock Minuet".
Maude and Iris Apatow too are playing expanded versions of their "Knocked Up" roles — not just wisecracking moppets this time but characters who are integral to the plot.
