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This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; ... Eva Best (1851–1925, United States) Ugo Betti (1892–1953, Italy) Bahram Beyzai (born 1938, Iran)
They're Made Out of Meat (1991), by Terry Bisson; This Is Our Youth (1996), by Kenneth Lonergan; The Time of Your Life (1939), by William Saroyan; To Kill a Mockingbird (2018), by Aaron Sorkin; Torch Song Trilogy (1982), by Harvey Fierstein; The Trip to Bountiful (1953), by Horton Foote; Troubled Island (1936), by Langston Hughes and William ...
The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League.These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
Zoe Akins; Edward Albee; Eva Allen Alberti; Woody Allen; Franco Ambriz; Jane Anderson; Maxwell Anderson; Robert Woodruff Anderson; Maya Angelou; Jacob M. Appel
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, an Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play.
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights (1766–1839) William Dunlap (1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth (1784–1858) James Nelson Barker (1793–1876) John Neal (1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird (1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad (1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt
The best known playwright of farces is Hans Sachs (1494–1576) who wrote 198 dramatic works. In England, The Second Shepherds' Play of the Wakefield Cycle is the best known early farce. However, farce did not appear independently in England until the 16th century with the work of John Heywood (1497–1580).
Harold Pinter (/ ˈ p ɪ n t ər /; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.