playwright
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US composer Sondheim and playwright James Lapine created the original musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1984.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I don’t know if I had grown up in New York City that I would be a playwright today, because I think I would have been way too intimidated,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It is an adaptation of a play by British playwright James Graham, which ran in the West End and Broadway between 2017 and 2019.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was translated into English for the first time by playwright George Chapman in the early 17th Century.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Allan Larson, the father of the late playwright Jonathan Larson, made the trip to Levittown and sat in the same unimproved auditorium and on the same wood-plank seats as Mackintosh had.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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She wants to allow Nolan creative freedom, knowing that the Greek playwrights rebooted figures like Odysseus and Medea just like Marvel treats Spider-Man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Soon after, wannabe authoritarians attack the comedians, essayists, playwrights and poets.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
Lucy Kirkwood, Penelope Skinner, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti are also among more than 70 UK-based playwrights taking part.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The playwrights of Athens dramatized the tragic tales of kings, including Xerxes of Persia, whose overweening ambitions led the rulers to ruin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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