American playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), of German-Jewish heritage, was blacklisted in 1952 when she refused to name names before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. “I Cannot,” she ...
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Richard Eyre has done so much excellent work as a theatre director and as an adaptor of classics, notably Ibsen. He has directed films, television and operas. He was artistic director of the Nottingha ...
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August Wilson (1945-2005), the great African-American multi-award-winning playwright, wrote a cycle of plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, which covers the American-Black man’s experience in the twentieth ce ...
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Larry Kramer’s largely autobiographical play, The Normal Heart, deals with the private and public tragedy of the AIDS crisis in New York in the early 1980s and documents Kramer’s efforts t ...
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