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Boldly airs points of view we rarely hear on the British stage …

Asif Khan (Julian), Navin Chowdhry (Kash) and Maya Sondhi (Sam)

in Multitudes

Photograph: Tristram Kenton

for the Guardian

Multitudes review – a vigorous debate about British Islam

Thursday 26 February 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
multitudes-review-tricycle-theatre-john-hollingworth-british-islam

Amy Jephta SA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Amy_Jephta

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/03/
playwright-amy-jephta-on-cape-town-a-good-house

Adrienne Kennedy USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/
t-magazine/adrienne-kennedy-broadway.html

Sonali Bhattacharyya UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/18/
sonali-bhattacharyya-interview-chasing-hares

Suzan-Lori Parks USA

first African American woman

to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/
theater/suzan-lori-parks.html

Jackie Sibblies Drury USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
theater/black-playwrights-theater.html

Jeremy O. Harris USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
theater/black-playwrights-theater.html

Antoinette Nwandu USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
theater/black-playwrights-theater.html

Jordan E. Cooper USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
theater/black-playwrights-theater.html

Katori Hall USA

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jan/17/
our-lady-of-kibeho-review-
royal-and-derngate-northampton-katori-hall-rwanda

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/mar/23/
katori-hall-the-mountaintop-review

Jeremy O. Harris USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/
theater/jeremy-o-harris-slave-play.html

Iman Qureshi

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/04/
the-funeral-director-review-
southwark-playhouse-london-iman-qureshi

Forest Whitaker USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/
theater/review-in-hughie-with-forest-whitaker-two-desolate-lost-souls.html

Mike Bartlett UK

https://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/
454316714/a-new-kind-of-tragic-prince-in-king-charles-iii

Peter Morgan UK

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/
390465649/helen-mirren-extends-her-elizabethan-reign-in-the-audience

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jan/13/
peter-morgan-the-audience-queen

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/17/
theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/aug/01/
theatre2

Lucy Prebble UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
the-effect-heart-of-hawick-lucy-prebble-review

John Hollingworth UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
multitudes-review-tricycle-theatre-john-hollingworth-british-islam

Enda Walsh UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/21/
ballyturk-review-cillian-murphy-enda-walsh

David Mamet USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/
theater/review-in-david-mamets-china-doll-al-pacino-
as-an-urban-warrior-in-winter.html

Bruce Norris

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/
theater/the-qualms-by-bruce-norris-at-the-steppenwolf-theater.html

Richard Bean UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/01/
richard-bean-satirical-comedy-great-britain

David Hare UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
david-hare

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2020/sep/02/
plays-of-david-hare-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/aug/30/
beat-the-devil-review-bridge-theatre-london-david-hare-ralph-fiennes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/
books/review/the-blue-touch-paper-a-memoir-by-david-hare.html

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/31/
453155446/dramatist-david-hare-says-like-many-writers-hes-driven-by-doubt

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/
theater/review-skylight-with-carey-mulligan-and-bill-nighy-opens-on-broadway.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/18/
skylight-review-bill-nighy-carey-mulligan-michael-billington

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jan/20/
david-hare-interview-judas-kiss

Dennis Kelly UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
dennis-kelly

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/11/
orphans-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/oct/09/
orphans-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/25/
dennis-kelly-orphans-edinburgh-festival

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/feb/28/
theatre.television

Peter Terson UK

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/sep/08/
observer-archive-tale-of-terraces-goal-playwright

Daniel Sullivan USA

http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/
theater/reviews/01merchant.html

Richard Foreman USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/
nyregion/richard-foreman-still-dreams-of-paris.html

Howard Barker UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2007/jun/05/
theolympicskilledmytheatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/may/01/theatre1

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/1999/sep/24/
theatre.artsfeatures

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/1999/jun/22/
theatre.artsfeatures

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/jun/19/
books.guardianreview4

Alan Bennett UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
alanbennett

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/
alan-bennett-on-sexuality-celebrity-perfect-egg-sandwich

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/11/
the-madness-of-george-iii-mark-gatiss-nottingham-playhouse-alan-bennett-sensational

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/07/
the-madness-of-george-iii-review-mark-gatiss-delivers-a-tour-de-force

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/22/
allelujah-alan-bennett-bridge-the-lehman-trilogy-national-a-monster-calls-old-vic--review

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/18/
allelujah-review-alan-bennett-bridge-theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/25/
alan-bennett-play-bridge-theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/f
orty-years-on-review-chichester-alan-bennett-richard-wilson

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/27/
forty-years-on-richard-wilson-alan-bennett-school-play-chichester-review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2017/jan/13/
alan-bennett-discusses-keeping-on-keeping-on-books-podcast

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/31/
alan-bennett-lady-in-the-van-film-interview

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/25/
enjoy-alan-bennett-review-revival-lacks-punch

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/06/
alan-bennett-edward-snowden-nsa

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/
johann-hari-alan-bennett-and-the-question-of-innocence-1828408.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/18/
alan-bennett-the-habit-of-art

Terrence McNally

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/theater/
mothers-and-sons-an-aids-tale-starring-tyne-daly.html

Bryony Lavery UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jun/09/bryony-lavery-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jun/09/kursk-young-vic

Simon Russell Beale UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/simon-russell-beale

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/
theater/king-lear-on-an-epic-scale-starring-simon-russell-beale.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jan/24/
king-lear-olivier-theatre-review

Frank Langella USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/
theater/frank-langella-roaring-at-defiance-in-king-lear.html

Julian Mitchell

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/25/
how-we-made-another-country-kenneth-branagh-rupert-everett

John Donnelly

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jan/19/
the-pass-review

George Brant USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/
theater/grounded-a-fighter-pilots-story.html

Tom Stoppard Czechoslovakia, UK

Tom Stoppard

photographed by Jane Bown in 1967.

Tom Stoppard: A Life review

– smuggling heart into a scholar's story

Hermione Lee’s masterly biography of the playwright argues

that emotion is as vital to his writing as ‘mental acrobatics’

Sun 4 Oct 2020 07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/04/
tom-stoppard-a-life-review-smuggling-heart-into-a-scholars-story

Tom Stoppard Czech / UK

(born Tomáš Straussler)

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/tom-stoppard

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stoppard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/28/
magazine/tom-stoppard-interview.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/
theater/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-broadway.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/
books/review-tom-stoppard-biography-hermione-lee.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/04/
tom-stoppard-a-life-review-
smuggling-heart-into-a-scholars-story

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/01/
tom-stoppard-a-life-by-hermione-lee-review-an-exceptional-biography

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/08/
tom-stoppard-reveals-leopoldstadt-will-be-his-last-play

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/08/
rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-review-
daniel-radcliffe-stoppard-old-vic-london

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/aug/26/
rosencrantz-guildenstern-enter-stage-right-tom-stoppard

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2014/mar/22/
tom-stoppard-plays-greatest-hits-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/20/
new-stoppard-play-national-theatre-2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/theater/
rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-but-returned.html

Kenneth Branagh UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
kenneth-branagh

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/08/
kenneth-branagh-star-west-end-theatre-season-laurence-olivier

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/theater/
branagh-brings-his-visceral-macbeth-to-the-armory.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/25/
how-we-made-another-country-kenneth-branagh-rupert-everett

Peter Shaffer UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
shaffer

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/30/
johnezard

Howard Brenton UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/
romans-in-britain-play-mary-whitehouse-trial-archive-1982

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/10/
howard-brenton-life-in-theatre

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/09/theatre1

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/28/theatre

Edward Bond UK 1934-2024

playwright and director

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
edwardbond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edward_Bond

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/05/
edward-bond-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/05/
edward-bond-a-phenomenal-talent-
who-upturned-theatre-with-his-explosive-plays

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/05/
edward-bond-playwright-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/22/
edward-bond-medea-war-dea-play-sutton-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/oct/09/
edward-bond-saved-original-cast

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jan/03/theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/apr/23/theatre.samanthaellis

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/05/artsfeatures2

Mbongeni Ngema SA 1955-2023

renowned South African playwright,

producer and composer

He was best known

for creating the hit Sarafina!

which first premiered

on Broadway in 1988.

It was adapted into a musical drama

starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1992,

becoming an international success

and was nominated for the Tony

and Grammy Awards.

Sarafina!

told the story of a young student

and how she inspired her peers to fight

against racial segregation

in apartheid South Africa

after her teacher was thrown in jail.

Apartheid

was an institutionalized system

that discriminated against non-whites

and ensured South Africa was ruled

by the minority white population

from 1948 till the early 1990s.

Ngema's body of work included

the lauded theatre production Woza Albert,

which first showed in 1981

and went on to win more

than 20 awards across the world.

The political satire explored

the second coming of Jesus Christ as a black man,

returning to South Africa as a black man.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/
1221946731/mbongeni-ngema-south-african-creator-sarafina-dies-68

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mbongeni_Ngema

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/
1221946731/mbongeni-ngema-south-african-creator-sarafina-dies-68

Robert Patrick O’Connor USA 1937-2023

early and prolific playwright of gay life

He got his start at Caffe Cino,

the birthplace of Off Off Broadway.

His first of hundreds of plays,

performed there in 1964,

is a milestone of gay theater.

(...)

(his) 1964 play, “The Haunted Host,”

became a touchstone of early gay theater

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/
theater/robert-patrick-dead.html

Charles H. Fuller Jr. USA 1939-2022

Denzel Washington, left, and Charles Brown

in 1981 in Mr. Fuller’s acclaimed play “A Soldier’s Play,”

staged by the Negro Ensemble Company in New York.

Photograph: Bert Andrews

Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Winner for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Dies at 83

He was the second Black playwright to win the award

and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film,

“A Soldier’s Story.”

NYT

Published Oct. 4, 2022

Updated Oct. 5, 2022, 10:30 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/
theater/charles-fuller-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/
theater/charles-fuller-a-soldiers-play.html

Peter Brook UK 1925-2022

Edward Artie Bullins USA 1935-2021

Ed Bullins (...) was among

the most significant

Black playwrights of the 20th century

and a leading voice

in the Black Arts Movement

of the 1960s and ’70s

(...)

Over a 55-year career

in which he produced

nearly 100 plays,

Mr. Bullins sought to reflect

the Black urban experience

unmitigated by the expectations

of traditional theater.

Most of his work

appeared in Black theaters

in Harlem and Oakland, Calif.,

and perhaps for that reason

he never reached the heights of acclaim

that greeted peers like August Wilson

whose plays appeared on Broadway

and were adapted for the screen

(and who often credited

Mr. Bullins as an influence).

That was fine with Mr. Bullins.

He often said he wrote

not for white or middle-class audiences,

but for the strivers, hustlers

and quiet sufferers whose struggles

he sought to capture

in searing works like

“In the Wine Time” (1968)

and “The Taking of Miss Janie” (1975).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/
theater/ed-bullins-dead.html

Brent Christopher Carver Canada 1951-2020

sensitive, soft-spoken

yet nakedly emotional

Canadian actor and singer

who won a Tony Award

for his starring role

in the 1993 musical

“Kiss of the Spider Woman,”

(...)

In his revie

of “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

for The New York Times

Frank Rich praised Mr. Carver's

portrayal of Molina,

a gay window dresser who escapes

the psychological horrors

of a Latin American prison

through movie-musical fantasies

(performed by Chita Rivera),

and “arrives at his own heroic

definition of masculinity.”

Mr. Carver, Mr. Rich wrote,

was “riveting.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/
theater/brent-carver-dead.html

Larry Kramer USA 1935-2020

Terence David Hands / Terry Hands UK 1941-2020

British director who led

the Royal Shakespeare Company in England

and in the 1980s took

several productions to Broadway,

including a well-regarded

“Much Ado About Nothing”

and the notorious musical flop “Carrie,”

(...)

Mr. Hands was with

the Royal Shakespeare Company

for almost a quarter-century,

joining it in 1966 to run Theatregoround,

an outreach program.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/
arts/terry-hands-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/04/
terry-hands-rsc

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/04/
terry-hands-obituary

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/mar/01/
hamlet-clwyd-theatr-mold-terry-hands-review-breathtaking

William Blackwell Branch USA 1927-2019

playwright,

television writer,

producer and actor who,

in his work, explored

African-American life

and sought to challenge

the stereotypes

that burdened it

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/
theater/william-b-branch-playwright-of-the-black-experience-dies-at-92.html

Peter Richard Nichols UK 1927-2019

British dramatist

whose first and most

frequently revived play,

“A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,”

startled and moved

London and Broadway

audiences of the 1960s

by telling the story

of a brain-damaged child’s brief life

in a darkly comic style

that would become his signature

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/
theater/peter-nichols-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/peternichols

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/sep/09/
peter-nichols-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/
theater/peter-nichols-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/oct/24/
day-in-the-death-joe-egg-review

Mark Medoff USA 1940-2019

Mark Medoff ('s) acclaimed play

“Children of a Lesser God,”

featuring a deaf central character,

won the Tony Award for best play in 1980

and was turned into a 1986 movie

that won an Oscar for its female lead,

Marlee Matlin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/
obituaries/mark-medoff-dead.html

Ntozake Shange USA 1948-2018

Albert Francis Innaurato Jr. USA 1947-2017

playwright who enjoyed

spectacular success

for a time in the late 1970s,

including having a play

run on Broadway

for more than four years

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
theater/albert-innaurato-dead-playwright-who-had-hits-on-broadway-in-70s.html

Myrna Lila Lamb USA 1930-2017

playwright who put the tenets

of second-wave feminism

in front of theatergoers

in provocative works

that were staged at the Public Theater

in Manhattan and elsewhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/
theater/myrna-lamb-feminist-playwright-dead-at-87.html

Peter Reginald Frederick Hall UK 1930-2017

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
peterhallcompany

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/
peter-hall-british-theatre-dies-aged-86-royal-shakespeare-company

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/
sir-peter-hall-theatre-opera-and-film-director-dies-aged-86

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/nov/05/
peter-hall-uncle-vanya

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/nov/01/
sir-peter-hall-at-80

Samuel / Sam Shepard Rogers USA 1943-2017

Sam Shepard with Patti Smith in 1971.

Photograph: David Gahr/Getty Images

Sam Shepard and the Art of Expressing the Unsaid

“True West” is a new biography of a playwright and actor

who was laconic in person but spoke volumes in his work.

NYT

April 3, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/
books/review/sam-shepard-biography-robert-greenfield.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
shepard

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/
books/review/sam-shepard-biography-robert-greenfield.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/
theater/sam-shepard-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/
arts/critics-for-the-new-york-times-
on-sam-shepards-plays-books-and-movies.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/
watching/sam-shepard-where-to-watch-movies.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jul/31/
sam-shepard-broadway-hollywood-pulitzer-academy-award

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/
books/review/one-inside-sam-shepard.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/
books/review/Kirn-t.html

Albert Ramsdell Gurney USA 1930-2017

prolific playwright who dissected

the fading folkways of the Northeast’s traditional

white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society,

of which he himself was a member,

in plays like “The Middle Ages,”

“The Dining Room”

and “The Cocktail Hour,”

(...)

With its focus on the quirks and barely

concealed anxieties

of the privileged class,

Mr. Gurney’s work was often likened

to that of the novelist John Cheever

and the playwright Philip Barry.

His settings were often

the stately homes

of the well-to-do.

His characters included

self-satisfied corporate executives,

crusty academics,

imperious dowagers

and bewildered teenagers

on the cusp of adulthood.

In his hands,

the conventions of the drawing-room comedy

became the framework for social analysis.

His astute observations were leavened

with tart humor,

and he was adept at using misunderstandings,

either accidental or willful, as fuel for drama.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/
theater/playwright-a-r-gurney-dead.html

David Malcolm Storey UK 1933-2017

British writer who drew on his experiences

as a miner’s son, a farmworker, an art student,

a professional rugby player

and a teacher to create

novels and plays that won acclaim

on both sides of the Atlantic

(...).

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/
theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html

Edward Albee USA 1928-2016

Zelda Fichandler USA 1924-2016

(born Zelda Diamond)

seminal figure

in the regional theater movement

who led Arena Stage in Washington

for 41 years,

producing more than 400 shows

and directing more than 50

for a company

that helped spur the growth

of professional theater

around the country

and became its centerpiece

in the nation’s capital

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/arts/zelda-fichandler-a-matriarch-of-regional-theater-dies-at-91.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/04/
488710159/remembering-zelda-fichandler-matriarch-of-american-regional-theater

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/
arts/zelda-fichandler-a-matriarch-of-regional-theater-dies-at-91.html

Arnold Wesker UK 1932-2016

Prolific writer who produced

more than 40 plays,

as well as books of essays,

poetry and short stories

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/apr/12/
arnold-wesker-british-playwright-dies-aged-83

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/
wesker

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/
theater/arnold-wesker-british-playwright-known-for-working-class-dramas-
dies-at-83.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/apr/13/
arnold-wesker-radical-bard-of-working-britain-class-plays

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/apr/12/
arnold-wesker-british-playwright-dies-aged-83

Brian Friel Ireland 1929-2015

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
brianfriel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Brian_Friel

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/01/
brian-friels-plays-to-be-brought-home-
to-cross-border-irish-terroir-that-inspired-them

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/21/
faith-healer-review-brian-friel-lyric-hammersmith

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/19/
dancing-at-lughnasa-review-ardal-ohanlon-olivier-national

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/02/
translations-review-brian-friel-lyric-belfast-abbey-dublin

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/dec/09/
faith-healer-review-aidan-gillen-is-mercurial-and-mysterious-
in-brian-friels-classic

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/27/
faith-healer-review-old-vic-livestream-michael-sheen-indira-varma-
david-threlfall-matthew-warchus-brian-friel

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/20/
faith-healer-review-bittersweet-showbiz-memories-are-full-of-magic

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/31/
translations-review-brian-friel-culture-clash-language-ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2017/jan/29/
john-hurt-an-absolute-master-at-portraying-misfits

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/29/
faith-healer-review-brian-friel-masterpiece-stephen-dillane-gina-mckee-ron-cook

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/20/
faith-healer-royal-lyceum-edinburgh

Elizabeth MacLennan UK 1938-2015

Actor, writer and co-founder of 7:84,

the touring company

that left an indelible mark on British theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/29/
elizabeth-maclennan

Ira Lewis Metsky USA 1932-2015

actor turned playwright whose comedies,

often with star-studded casts,

skewered the neuroses

and pretensions of writers and artists

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/theater/ira-lewis-actor-and-playwright-dies-at-82.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/
theater/ira-lewis-actor-and-playwright-dies-at-82.html

Judith Malina Germany, USA 1926-2015

actor and director

who with her husband, Julian Beck,

founded the Living Theater,

a troupe of activists and provocateurs

who advanced the idea

of political theater in America,

catalyzed fierce debate

over their methods and intentions,

and in the name of art

ran afoul of civic authorities

on three continents

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/
theater/judith-malina-founder-of-the-living-theater-dies-at-88.html

Isaac Hillel Schambelan USA 1940-2015

theater director

who for more than three decades

was the guiding force behind a professional

Off Broadway company

that featured blind

and otherwise disabled actors

in prominent roles

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/
arts/ike-schambelan-director-who-brought-disabled-artists-to-the-stage-dies-at-75.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/
arts/ike-schambelan-director-who-brought-disabled-artists-to-the-stage-
dies-at-75.html

Theodore Jonas Flicker USA 1930-2014

writer and director who led

an influential improvisational

theater troupe in New York in the 1960s,

wrote and directed the comic film

“The President’s Analyst”

and helped create the sitcom

“Barney Miller”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/
arts/television/theodore-j-flicker-sitcom-creator-dies-at-84.html

Leslie Earl Lee USA 1930-2014

playwright whose award-winning work,

much of it with the Negro Ensemble Company,

focused on stretching the boundaries

of the African-American experience

as it was portrayed on the stage

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/theater/leslie-lee-playwright-of-black-life-dies-at-83.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/
theater/leslie-lee-playwright-of-black-life-dies-at-83.html

Amiri Baraka USA 1934-2014

McDarrah’s 1967 photo of LeRoi Jones

(later known as Amiri Baraka),

who had been beaten

while in police custody after riots in Newark.

Photograph:

The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah

and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice

NYT

Sept. 6, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/
arts/design/fred-mcdarrah-photographs-village-voice.html

(born Everett Leroy Jones)

poet and playwright of pulsating rage,

whose long illumination

of the black experience in America

was called incandescent in some quarters

and incendiary in others

(...)

Mr. Baraka was famous as one of the major forces

in the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and ’70s,

which sought to duplicate

in fiction, poetry, drama and other mediums

the aims of the black power movement

in the political arena.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/
arts/amiri-baraka-polarizing-poet-and-playwright-dies-at-79.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
arts/music/questlove-reflects-on-amiri-baraka.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/
arts/amiri-baraka-polarizing-poet-and-playwright-dies-at-79.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/09/
amir-baraka-playwright-poet-dies

John Osborne UK 1929-1994

William / Bob Robert Sickinger USA 1926-2013

director

whose mostly nonprofessional productions in the 1960s

seeded a Chicago theater scene

that evolved into one of the country’s greatest

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/
theater/bob-sickinger-86-father-of-chicagos-theater-scene.html

Lawrence Leo King USA 1929-2012

journalist, essayist and playwright

with a swaggering prose style

and a rollicking personal one,

(...) left Texas as a young man

but never abandoned it

in his work — turning out

profiles of politicians, articles

on the flawsand foibles

of American culture,

searching autobiographical essays

and, most famously, the book

for the Broadway musical

“The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/arts/larry-l-king-texan-author-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/
arts/larry-l-king-texan-author-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html

Frederick Carl Neumann USA 1926-2012

actor and director

whose affinity for Samuel Beckett’s works

and his friendship with the man himself

helped forge the distinguished

New York experimental troupe Mabou Mines

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/
theater/frederick-neumann-actor-and-director-dies-at-86.html

Romulus Zachariah Linney IV USA 1930-2011

playwright who roved along

many intellectual paths,

exploring the southern Appalachian

culture of his upbringing,

refashioning classical works

for modern times

and adapting contemporary novels

for the stage

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/arts/16linney.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/
arts/16linney.html

Sidney Ramon Michaels USA 1927-2011

playwright

who was nominated for Tony Awards

in three consecutive seasons in the 1960s

(...)

Mr. Michaels made a splash on Broadway

in 1962 with his play “Tchin-Tchin,”

an Americanized version

of a farcical, bittersweet

French comedy about a pair

of betrayed spouses attempting, ineptly,

to gain their revenge

by having an affair of their own.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/
theater/sidney-michaels-playwright-dead-at-83.html

Craig Noel USA 1915-2010

stage director and producer

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/
theater/12noel.html

Harold Pinter UK 1930-2008

Arthur Miller USA 1915-2005

David William Halliwell UK 1936-2006

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/07/
mike-leigh-on-playwright-david-halliwell-little-malcolm

Clive Perry 1936-2006

theatre director

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/30/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Philip Richard Henry Tomlinson 1943-2006

theatre director,

teacher and administrator

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/07/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

August Wilson USA 1945-2005

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
august-wilson

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/
t-magazine/august-wilson-ma-rainey.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/
theater/august-wilson-exhibition-pittsburgh.html

https://www.npr.org/2007/10/02/
14893908/august-wilson-broadways-bard-of-black-life

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/
theater/what-august-wilson-means-now.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/
theater/august-wilson-on-broadway-a-history.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/
theater/august-wilson-actors.html

Sarah Kane UK 1971-1999

Her writing refuses to be categorised …

Sarah Kane in 1998.

Photograph: Jane Bown

for the Observer

'The strange thing is we howled with laughter':

Sarah Kane's enigmatic last play

Wednesday 11 May 2016 12.30 BST

Last modified on Wednesday 11 May 2016 14.52 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/11/
448-psychosis-sarah-kane-new-opera-philip-venables-royal-opera-house

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
kane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sarah_Kane

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb/19/
plumbed-secret-shameful-depth-sarah-kanes-blasted

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2020/oct/28/
blasted-cleansed-best-of-sarah-kane-in-pictures-tristram-kenton

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/11/
448-psychosis-sarah-kane-new-opera-philip-venables-
royal-opera-house

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/23/
blasted-review-other-room-porters-cardiff

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/15/
blasted-review-sarah-kane-debut-richard-wilson

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/13/
sarah-kane-a-blast-from-the-past

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/11/
blasted-sheffield-crucible-sarah-kane-richard-wilson-review

Tony Kushner USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/
t-magazine/tony-kushner-caroline-west-side.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/apr/05/
aids-plays-normal-heart-angels-in-america-enduring-power-anger

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2017/apr/28/
angels-in-america-national-theatre-in-pictures

Samuel Beckett Ireland 1906-1989

Laurence Olivier UK 1907-1989

Laurence Olivier (Coriolanus, 1959)

PHOTOGRAPH: ERICH AUERBACH/GETTY IMAGES

One CD, 40 years of theatre's greatest hits:

· Live recordings resurrect legendary RSC moments

· Tapes were previously only heard by academics

Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent

The Guardian p. 3

Wednesday October 26, 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/26/
arts.artsnews

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/olivier

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/may/15/
olivier

George Orson Welles USA 1915-1985

https://www.theguardian.com/film/orsonwelles

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/apr/23/
orson-welles-voodoo-macbeth-shakespeare

On July 25, 1936,

after a five-night run,

the audience at the Park Theatre

in Bridgeport, Connecticut,

applauded the closing night

performance of Macbeth,

produced by John Houseman

and directed by Orson Welles

for the Federal Theatre Project (FTP)

of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

The FTP was one of five arts-related projects

established during the first term

of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

to assist unemployed writers, actors, and artists

during the Great Depression.

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-25/ - July 25, 1936

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history
/july-25/ - July 25, 1936

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III USA 1911-1983

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/
arts/cherry-jones-glass-menagerie-tennessee-williams.html

Terence Mervyn Rattigan UK 1911-1977

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
rattigan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/03/
rattigan-letters-british-library-cause-celebre

Robert Cedric Sherriff UK 1896-1975

Born in 1896, he was working

as an insurance clerk in London

when the First World War erupted.

After arriving as an officer in France,

he found himself strained to the breaking point

by the tension on the front lines.

In his memoirs, Sherriff recalled,

“I told myself

that the average man in the ranks,

who had no education —

did not have these awful nameless fears.

I told myself this

in defense of myself —

I told myself

that whatever I enjoyed

by way of better comfort,

I paid out again in mental dread.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/
books/review/r-c-sherriff-the-hopkins-manuscript.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/18/
journeys-end-war-film-that-women-want-rc-sherriff-conflict-trauma

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/04/
journeys-end-review-sam-claflin-toby-jones

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/01/
journeys-end-review-sam-claflin-asa-butterfield-paul-bettany-first-world-war

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/09/
journeys-end-review-sam-clafin-toronto-film-festival-2017-tiff

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/14/
shelf-life-rachel-cooke-rc-sherriff-greengates-journeys-end

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/02/
benedict-cumberbatch-tom-hiddleston-journeys-end-prince-andrew

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/nov/29/
white-carnation-review

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/mar/16/
journeys-end-review

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/03/
thriller

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jan/22/
theatre

John Kingsley Orton UK 1933-1967

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/07/
how-to-play-dead-corpses-view-joe-orton-loot-anah-ruddin

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/03/
prick-up-your-ears-review-joe-orton-stephen-frears-gary-oldman-alfred-molina

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/apr/10/
features.willhodgkinson

Lorraine Hansberry USA 1930-1965

George Bernard Shaw Ireland 1856-1950

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
bernardshaw

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/29/
his-fair-lady-how-george-bernard-shaws-wife-played-a-vital-role-in-his-masterworks

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/
opinion/why-george-bernard-shaw-had-a-crush-on-stalin.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/feb/14/
a-handsome-valentine-may-morriss-love-letter-to-george-bernard-shaw

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
man-and-superman-review-ralph-fiennes-national-theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/01/
my-fair-lady-review-london-1958

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