Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the U. S. Its production in New York City was canceled then reinstated, finally opening on 13 October 1998, directed by Joe Mantello.

Playwright John Guare became interested in Hampton's story through his friendship with two of his duped hosts — Osborn and Inger Elliott, who were outraged to find " David Poitier " in bed with another man the morning after they let him into their home.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.

That same year, Kwei-Armah received The Evening Standard Award for the Most Promising New Playwright of 2003.

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

* 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.

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

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.

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 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.

* Playwright and author Terence Frisby of the 1960s play and movie There's a Girl in My Soup was born in New Cross in 1932 but spent the majority of his childhood in Welling.

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

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 ".

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 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.

He became known as " The Playboy Playwright " and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué at the time.

Sloane tied for first in the Variety Critics ' Poll for " Best New Play " and Orton came second for " Most Promising Playwright.

* 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons " and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

* 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.

Playwright Tennessee Williams said of its actors: " They act from the inside out.

Playwright Alfred Uhry collaborated with Martha Clarke on " Angel Reapers " and used Shaker texts as source material.

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.

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

* Arthur C. Sidman Playwright and vaudevillian.

* Playwright Erik Jackson acquired King's consent to stage a non-musical spoof, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 with female impersonator Keith Levy ( also known as Sherry Vine ) in the lead role.

* Stanley Weintraub ( ed. l ), The Playwright and the Pirate, Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence.

" 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.

Playwright Martin McDonagh and his brother, writer / director John Michael McDonagh, live in Camberwell.

* Playwright Alan Bennett has lived in Gloucester Crescent for the last forty years.

* Anthony E. Gallo – Playwright.