Theater Review | 'The Last Word. . . ': Playwright Whose Time Is Out of Joint
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Wrapping up our chat with author Michael Lewis.
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Arts & entertainment: Jason Cowley traces the story of the mental and spiritual decline of a gifted writer and close friend
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Are we fast approaching the day when actors will become irrelevant to film? Well . . . not irrelevant, maybe, but more of an afterthought, the way a director thinks about sound design after filming has wrapped?
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The Broadway show will stage its last performance on January 1.
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Playbill - The Goodman Theatre's premiere of Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture has extended its run until Nov. 7. The new play officially opens Oct. 5, following previews which began Sept. 21. It was to have closed on Oct. 31.
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As informative as it is, this documentary portrait of the playwright Tony Kushner doesnÂt have time to do more than scratch the surface of its fascinating subject.
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David Mamet's new play,  "November," might concern an American president, but it isn't  much in the way of decorousness. Indeed, in this comedy by the  author of such plays as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American  Buffalo," there's more profane language on display in the Oval  Office than during the entirety of the Nixon administration.
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Tonight&#39;s broadcast is his last in the chair. Making good on an exit plan announced in May 2002, he is stepping away from daily journalism to pursue his varied other interests.
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Rent, the acclaimed musical chronicle of counterculture life and death in Manhattan's East Village, will close in June after more than a dozen years on Broadway
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MySpace Comic Books, the comics corner of this online social network, and Meltdown Comics, a store in Los Angeles, have teamed up to commemorate the end of âY: The Last Man,â the comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan, above, and Pia Guerra. The event, âY: The Last Party,â will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, and will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The organization, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comic book business. Of late the defense fund has been involved in the case of Gordon Lee, a comic book retailer in Rome, Ga., who has found himself in court over the distribution of obscene material to a minor. The material in question depicted Picasso in the nude. Mr. Vaughan, who is also a writer on ABCâs âLost,â is a firm believer in the defense fund. âItâs obviously a completely different situation from the writersâ strike, but, similarly, itâs creators taking care of their community, which I always support,â he said in a telephone interview. The $100 V.I.P. tickets have sold out, but a limited number of $25 tickets will be available the day of the event. More information:www.myspace.com/cbldf.
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At 89 Phyllis Diller has a healthy new career as a painter and a DVD in stores chronicling her last ever stand-up performance in 2002. Who said anything about retirement?
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The president of the Writers Guild of America West and his his chief lieutenant are stuck deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their writersâ rebellion over?
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FORMER Radio 1 DJ Mike Read has been forced to close his musical after just one night following a string of bad reviews. The show, about playwright Oscar Wilde, was panned by the critics after they were given a preview on Tuesday.
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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An Austrian playwright and author has won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for literature. Elfriede Jelinek will go away with more than a million euros in prize money but also the massive kudos of winning a Nobel award