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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
Multitudes review – a vigorous debate about
British Islam
The Guardian
Thursday 26 February 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
multitudes-review-tricycle-theatre-john-hollingworth-british-islam
Charles Fuller
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/
theater/charles-fuller-a-soldiers-play.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
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/
theater/review-in-hughie-with-forest-whitaker-two-desolate-lost-souls.html
Mike Bartlett
UK
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/
454316714/a-new-kind-of-tragic-prince-in-king-charles-iii
Peter Morgan
UK
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/
390465649/helen-mirren-extends-her-elizabethan-reign-in-the-audience
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jan/13/
peter-morgan-the-audience-queen
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/17/
theatre
http://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 Brook
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/peter-brook
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/16/
peter-brook-timon-of-athens-the-applause-brought-down-the-ceiling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/video/2010/feb/26/
peter-brook-politics
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
Edward Bond
UK
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
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 (born Tomáš Straussler)
Czech / UK
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/tom-stoppard
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stoppard
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
Brent
Christopher Carver CAN
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
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.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
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
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
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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/shepard
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
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/
theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html
Edward Albee USA
1928-2016
Zelda Fichandler (born Zelda Diamond)
USA 1924-2016
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
http://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
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
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
GER / 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
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/
theater/judith-malina-founder-of-the-living-theater-dies-at-88.html
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/28/theatre
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/28/theatre
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/09/theatre1
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/
arts/television/theodore-j-flicker-sitcom-creator-dies-at-84.html
Leslie Earl Lee
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 (born Everett Leroy Jones)
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.
Credit
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
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
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
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/
theater/sidney-michaels-playwright-dead-at-83.html
Craig Noel, stage director and producer
USA 1915-2010
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
http://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
http://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
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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://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.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2017/apr/28/
angels-in-america-national-theatre-in-pictures
Samuel Beckett IR 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
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/26/arts.artsnews
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/olivier
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1064439/Laurence-Olivier
http://www.guardian.co.uk/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
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 IR
1856-1950
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/
opinion/why-george-bernard-shaw-had-a-crush-on-stalin.html
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/26/
man-and-superman-review-ralph-fiennes-national-theatre
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