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William Motter Inge (/ ˈ ɪ n dʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918, France); Jacob Appel (born 1973, United States); Manuel José Arce (1787–1847, Federal Republic of Central America); William Archibald (1917–1970) (United States)
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [1]
David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) [1] is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones) and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 and 1985 ().
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) [1] was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdraw from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash. [2]
The play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre with John Gielgud directing and starred Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Sherwood, and Colleen Dewhurst. The New York Times writer Clive Barnes wrote, "It is a lovely, poignant and deeply felt play. In no way at all is it an easy play -- this formal minuet of death, this symphony ironically ...
Zoe Akins; Edward Albee; Eva Allen Alberti; Woody Allen; Franco Ambriz; Jane Anderson; Maxwell Anderson; Robert Woodruff Anderson; Maya Angelou; Jacob M. Appel