The company initially drew from the work of playwrights who lived locally, including Joe Pintauro, Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson.
It has served as a showcase for the early work of playwrights such as Eugene O'Neill and John Millington Synge and as a training ground for young actors.
To validate the developmental phases that define the work of Playwrights Theater, a play must, in its last phase, prove a determined readiness to move on.
Ten years later, in 1996, the Alfred Fagon award was founded in order to commemorate his life and work, and to support the work of playwrights of African and/or Caribbean descent.
Under Mr. Altman, the theater slowly built a subscriber base of some 18,000 people with a steady diet of classics and modern plays, including the work of playwrights like Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare.
Having presented the work of playwrights such as William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Samuel Beckett, Dublin's Abbey Theatre can rightly claim to be the treasure house of Irish literary culture.
Acting won out and Kelly went on to get a solid stage grounding in the works of playwrights ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett, many at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, where he always received a warm welcome.
In the past Mr. Schepisi has used his elegant, unassuming visual sense and his instinctive feel for the idiosyncrasies of actors to open up the works of playwrights like David Hare ("Plenty") and John Guare ("Six Degrees of Separation").
This is the work of a playwright at play.
Its 11 songs were full of crackling ice, shuffling cards, the work of the playwright Sarah Kane.
