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2 weeks agoAcclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Stoppard wrote erudite plays that touched on a broad range of topics from his 1966 absurdist comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead about two minor characters from Hamlet to his 1993 drama Arcadia which included dialogue about Chaos Theory and Garden Landscaping. But when Arcadia opened in New York, Stoppard told me his plays were always about people, not abstract ideas.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month agoMouth of the River, Tongue of No Country
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro Panamanian American poet and playwright whose books include Stepmotherland, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and an International Latino Book Award, and Migrant Psalms, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.
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2 months agoQuiara Alegria Hudes: When a woman leaves, there is always another woman to provide care in her place. I rebel against that'
Writing and reading saved Quiara Alegría Hudes' life and enabled her to expand from theater into fiction, telling both Puerto Rican and broader American stories.
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2 months agoAn Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls | Interviews | Roger Ebert
I think I have an ear for writing for women because I have a very vocal grandmother, mother, and sister. I was a young actor. I started officially at the age of seven and a half. And one of my first teachers said, "Just listen to other people and observe and watch people. Go to a mall, watch people." Well, I went to malls, I went to my living room, I went to my dining room table,
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