Playwright Tank Tops

"Renascence" was a title of one of the early poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), American poet and playwright. She was a part of the bohemian lifestyle of Greenwich Village and didn't fit into mainstream society. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. This is redisegned historical photograph of Ernst Toller, property of National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection. The picture is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Toller_-_Schwadron.jpg and it is altered by clors and geometrical shapes and what feels like a folk-pattern. CC BY 3.0 Deed Attribution 3.0 Unported

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Two time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage hit a trifecta by have having 2 broadway shows and an opera running in NYC at the same time.

Perfect shirt for the dramaturg in your theatrical life

The Wolves playwright, Sarah deLappe.

Theater Dramaturg, drawn by own human hand. x badlydrawnbabe

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Theatre 101

In this series, we offer humorous takes on the classics of literature.

Lynn Nottage should be produced more in theatre across the country. From Broadway to Off Broadway to Regional Theatre.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South, though he wrote in several dialects, including German and the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.[1] Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associa...

What Would Shakespeare Do?

You will have to write and rewrite that play many times before it's ready.

We need more Dominique Morisseau and less David Mamet plays on Broadway

Sarah Ruhl

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"In war, truth is the first casualty." Aeschylus ( c. 525/524-c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only with the chorus.