playwright-director

Early last Friday afternoon, the playwright-director Moisés Kaufman was at the Acorn Theater on 42nd Street, eager to tweak the penultimate scene of his new show, "One Arm."

A Director Finds His Way to Tennessee Lizzie Simon 2011

In recent years, though, he's shifted his base of operations northward to the Gloucester Stage Company, the Massachusetts troupe for which the prolific playwright-director has penned a cycle of 14 plays set in and around his adopted home.

Five Angry Men Terry Teachout 2010

Our show, part of the Capital Fringe Festival, opens in six days -- and our playwright-director, Nathaniel Russ Jr., has just informed us that one of our fellow actors has quit.

A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in 'The Rave Scenes' 2010

As an antithesis to the depiction of women of the First Aliyah (1882 – 1903) as passive or silent, the playwright-director instructed the actresses to work without pause: from crushing gravel to kneading dough, the feverish and physically exhausting performance of hard work revealed to the audience the difficult and thankless lives of these anonymous women.

Hebrew Drama: Representation of Women. 2009

Like Spike Lee in film, playwright-director George C. Wolfe has broken new stylistic ground in treating African-American experience.

A Folk Hero's Hot Odyssey 2008

When Shawn and English playwright-director David Hare invited Nichols to do the play, he consulted with his wife, Diane Sawyer, and with Elaine May, who both advised him to do it.

Why Mike Nichols Is Working Without A Net 2008

Off-Broadway, playwright-director Oren Safdie ( "Private Jokes, Public Places") and songwriter Ronnie Cohen have given the "Avenue Q" treatment to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in

Broadway's Back -- and Booming 2007

The playwright-director had a good idea which she didn't pursue to the last detail.

Searching for a women's movement 1995

At Theater Schmeater, those doors lead to locally bred playwright-director Wayne Rawley's dazzling facsimile of such shops, with their endless refrigerators full of soft drinks and jars of pepperoni sticks by the cash register.

The Seattle Times 2011

The play transferred to the 650-seat Friedman after an acclaimed Off Broadway run at the Classic Stage Company that opened in January 2010 with Ms. Arianda in the role of the manic actress Vanda and Wes Bentley as Thomas, the playwright-director.

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011