When a playwright's quill strikes against sheets of paper, a theatrical piece is what surfaces.
The playwright's name was Euripides.
These are stage directions taken from a playwright's script (Shaw, 1916).
Starting with the playwright and the actors, down to the designer's paper moon and cardboard sea, all conspire to deceive the audience into buying into an illusion.
But Mr. Bruster's paper reflects current scholarly interest in Shakespeare as a playwright who frequently collaborated with others — including, Mr. Vickers has controversially argued, on plays we think of as coming solely from his own pen.
The playwright Sam Shepard's ROLLING THUNDER LOGBOOK (Da Capo, paper, $16.95), on the other hand, is fascinating because it skips the minutiae and offers its own moodily entertaining narrative.
The New York of Landline is abundantly chill, a world of playwrights, Paper magazine, upstate country homes, and performance artists taking a vow of silence.
O'Neill's College Paper The Playwrights Theater, which has committed itself to producing the entire canon of Eugene O'Neill, will produce another little-known work of his this summer: "The Personal Equation".
The playwright worked at the paper off and on from the mid-1990s until 2008, when he left to concentrate full-time on writing plays.
