Consolation and Provocation: Playwrights 2009 (WIT #373)

Consolation and Provocation: Playwrights 2009 Our guests – playwrights Gina Gionfriddo, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tina Howe, Lisa Loomer and Christopher Shinn – explore whether they write to console or provoke an audience; to what degree current events, including the election of a new president and the economic freefall, has on their work; who they write [...]

Playwrights and Directors (WIT #131)

Playwright and Director Director Paul Benedict (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), playwright Timothy Crouse (Anything Goes), playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), director Robert Kalfin (Rashomon), playwright Terrence McNally (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), legal representative Jeremy Nussbaum, and playwright John Weidman (Anything Goes) talk about how they began [...]