Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#1Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 11:23am
Hello Everyone,
I am working on a new song, and I need your expertise.
Are there any famous playwrights, who works focus on the location of The Bronx? Or have written famous plays about that location?
Any help would be appreciated!
Windy
#2Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 11:31amDoubt is set in The Bronx.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 11:34am
A Bronx Tale was adapted for the stage.
....but the world goes 'round
#3Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 1:09pm
I'm fromma Bronx.
The most famous is Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty."
And isn't Awake and Sing set in the Bronx?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4Famous Playwrtight - The Bronx?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 1:51pm
"The Subject Was Roses" by Bronx playwright Frank D. Gilroy.
Yes, "Awake and Sing" (by Clifford Odets, raised in the Bronx, born in Philadelphia) and "Doubt" (by Bronx playwright John Patrick Shanley) are set in the Bronx.
"The Indian Wants the Bronx" by Israel Horovitz (not from the Bronx)
Neil Simon, born in the Bronx, but grew up in Washington Heights.
Jules Feiffer is from the Bronx
Updated On: 7/30/13 at 01:51 PM
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