Mar 12th, 2008 · Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee turns 80 on Wednesday. Far from resting on his laurels, he's in the midst of a busy season. And as Jeff Lunden reports, he's still as irascible as ever on the topic of what theater is "about."
Feb 9th, 2008 · Playwright Martin McDonagh makes audiences laugh -- and makes them uncomfortable about what they're laughing at. He's had hits on London's West End and Broadway. Now, the Irish writer is set to make a new audience squirm -- and chuckle -- as his screenwriter-director debut, In Bruges, opens in U.S. theaters.
Dec 28th, 2007 · The hit Broadway show August: Osage County is a comic-tragic take on family. It's set in the county where playwright Tracy Letts grew up. His father, Dennis Letts, plays the patriarch of a large dysfunctional family. But the Lettses say it's not about their own family.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Politicians aren't the only ones doing a song and dance this election season. Iowa-born playwright Robert John Ford has written a musical comedy that pokes fun at the Iowa Caucuses and there's an adaptation in the works for the New Hampshire Primary.
Dec 24th, 2007 · Crumpet the Elf is back for another holiday visit. Crumpet, better known as writer David Sedaris, at one time worked as a department store elf at Macy's. Sedaris first read from his Santaland Diaries about his experiences as one of Santa's more reluctant helpers 15 years ago. That reading launched his career as a novelist, playwright and humorist.
Dec 10th, 2007 · Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang tackles American notions of race and art in his partly autobiographical new play. Yellow Face, which opens tonight in New York's Public Theater, is a comedy with serious themes about race and the politics of identity. Hwang is the only Asian-American ever to win the Tony Award for best play, for M. Butterfly in 1988.
Nov 4th, 2007 · Theater's most playfully cerebral playwright, Tom Stoppard, is back in New York with one of his most personal plays to date: Rock 'n' Roll, an idea-packed drama set in Prague and London and spanning two decades.
Oct 10th, 2007 · Artist & Activist Rhodessa Jones talks about The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. The Project has earned attention and praise for helping to lift imprisoned women's lives and voices. The actress, teacher and a playwright discusses her portrayals of women as they persevere through major life changes have won acclaim.