" Playwright August Wilson used the term " ghetto " in Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom ( 1984 ) and Fences ( 1987 ), both of which draw upon the author ’ s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.

* Doug Wright, ' 85 Playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning I am my Own Wife, as well as noted plays Quills, and Gray Gardens

Playwright Matthew Hancock is the author of several stage adaptations, including Window, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, and The Body Artist, taken from the novella by Don DeLillo.

Playwright Terence Rattigan, an intimate companion of his father, dedicated his play The Winslow Boy ( 1946 ) to him.

Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

In 2007, he produced the play, Shakespeare's Will by Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen.

Playwright Charles MacArthur, co-author of the play The Front Page was a former City Press reporter ; several of the characters in the play were based on City Press personalities, notably the skittish managing editor Larry Mulay.

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

* Playwright Daniel Caffrey's play Gregor and the Squonk is loosely based on the tale of J. P. Wentling.

Playwright Shirley Gee has written two fictional dramatisations of Snell's life: a radio play, Against the Wind ( 1988 ) and a stage play, Warrior ( 1989 ).

Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 “ Country ” travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwright ’ s International conference.

Her play Comfort me with Apples won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Playwright Max Sparber's play The Older Gentleman set in rural Nebraska in the early ' 60s, includes a scene in which college students are shown Boys Beware in class.

In 1980 Hughes won the London Theatre Critics Award for ' Most Promising Playwright ' for his play Commitments.

Playwright A. Stein who in his Last Parade play used several of Vysotsky ’ s songs, was chastised by a Ministry of Culture official for " providing a tribune for this anti-Soviet scum ".

American Playwright Ken Ludwig wrote a play inspired by the details of Twelfth Night ; called Leading Ladies.

In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast.

Playwright Horton Foote met actor Robert Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse when Duvall starred in a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller.

Playwright John Sable's Multiple O, a play adaptation of The Ethical Slut, opened on May 2, 2008, at the Broom Street Theater.

George Bernard Shaw praised the play saying " Mr. Wilde is to me our only thorough Playwright.

Buntline presented Cody as a " compendium of cliches ", however this did not stop New York Playwright Frank Meader from using Buntline's novel as the basis of a play about Cody's life in 1872.

Playwright Greenberg has stated that one of the compulsions for creating a baseball play was his complete immersion into the sport in 1999 after following the New York Yankees ' ( then -) record 114-win season the previous year, beginning with David Wells ' perfect game.

Playwright Tom Stoppard used this phrase as the title of a 1981 farce, On the Razzle, which he adapted from an earlier play by Johann Nestroy.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

Playwright Tad Mosel, who wrote four teleplays for Playhouse 90, recalled, " My first Playhouse 90 was glamour ... Glamour had come to television because CBS had built this magnificent Television City in Los Angeles ... Television had come to deserve buildings for itself.

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

" Playwright Arthur Miller commented that Muni " was pursued by a fear of failure.

In 2010 The Playwright, a collaboration with Daren White, was published.

" Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the United States.

Actress / Playwright / lyricist Gretchen Kiger-Cryer, mother of actor Jon Cryer, was born and raised in Dunreith.

* Playwright Charles Bennett was born in Shoreham-by-sea in 1899.

* Playwright Judy Upton was born in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1966 and has written several plays associated with Brighton Beach.

Playwright Jean Racine was a product of Port-Royal education.

) Playwright Gardner, however, actually preferred Selleck to Robards in the part, and even said that Selleck was the way he had always envisioned Murray.

Playwright Àngel Guimerà was even nominated a record 21 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won, due to controversy about the political significance of the gesture.

* Alan Jay Lerner ** ( 1918-1986 ) Composer, Playwright (** He was cremated here and his ashes given to family.

Playwright Eric Coble's 2004 stage adaptation was broadcast on 16 November 2007 on WCPN 90. 3 FM in Cleveland.

Playwright, Westminster Parliament member, and son of Thomas, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born on this street at number 12 in 1751 ; Brinsley Sheridan's works include The Critics and A School for Scandal.

Martin and Tichenor's second book, " Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright ( abridged )" was published by Hyperion in 2006.

Odets was the subject of a critically acclaimed biography by psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, wife of playwright William Gibson: Clifford Odets – American Playwright – The Years from 1906 – 1940.

Playwright Green, however, was not happy with the more hopeful, upbeat ending that the Group had imposed on his brooding work.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

" Playwright Arthur Miller said " the Group Theatre was unique and probably will never be repeated.

Playwright and Poet laureate # British Poets Laureate | Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, the first actor-managerIn particular, it was an alternative to the pantomime and special-effects dominated stages, and it presented opposition ( Tory party ) satire.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays.

From 2007 to 2010, he was Lee Playwright in Residence at University of Alberta.