favorite playwright
favorite playwright
#0favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:43pmwho is your favorite playwright?
#2re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:45pmThornton Wilder, Tony Kushner, Terrance McNally, Sam Shepard
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:45pmI don't really have a favorite playwright, but I read Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler over the summer and will be reading A Doll's House. If I enjoy that, maybe I'll check out some more of his plays including Ghosts.
#4re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:47pmTerrence McNally and Tony Kushner are both great. Thanks for the reminder, Rath.
Razz77
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/04
#5re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:48pmNicky Silver, Caryl Churchill, Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel
#6re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:51pm
FAVORITE PLAYS BY FAVORITE PLAYWRIGHTS
Sam Shepard-"Fool For Love"
August Wilson-"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"
Terrence McNally-"A Perfect Ganesh"
Tony Kushner-"Millenium Approaches"
Caryl Churchill-"Far Away"
Paula Vogel-"The Baltimore Waltz"
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#7re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:57pm
Shakespeare
Chekhov
Ibsen
Wilde
T. Williams
Ionesco
Brecht
Beckett
Albee
Guare
Fugard
Ludlam
Durang
Churchill
Stoppard
A. Wilson
Kushner
#8re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:58pmBrecht was my favorite in college. I played Swiss Cheese.
#9re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:01pm
Here is just ten but there are many more:
John Guare
Tony Kushner
Sam Shepard
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O’Neill
David Mammett
William Shalespeare
Anton Checkov
August Wilson
MeliMel
Understudy Joined: 6/8/04
#10re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:02pmFederico Garcia Lorca
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:05pmI love Brecht for the fact that his plays are completely timeless. Mother Courage and Caucasian Chalk Circle could have been written yesterday or a hundred years ago and are as relevant today as the day they were written.
#12re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:06pmTony Kushner.
#13re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:07pmThe only playwright I flat out dislike is Pinter.
#14re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:08pm
Margo, I couldn't agree more.
Munk, much as I respect you, I couldn't disagree more.
#15re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:09pmI don't really have a favorite playwright because there are so many that i enjoy but i do have to say that i read some of ibsen's work over the summer did not enjoy them. I know they are highly regarded but i just couldn't read them.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:12pmPinter has been the victim of a lot of bad productions through the years by directors and actors who didn't "get" how to do his style of writing (and bad Pinter is painful to sit through). See a great production of The Caretaker or The Homecoming (more likely in London than in the US) and perhaps you'd think better of him.
#17re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:18pmThe Roundabout production of "The Homecoming" was underwhelming, to put it nicely.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#18re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:35pmTheir production of "Betrayal" was also lacking, but that's as much the fault of the writing as anything in the acting or direction (the whole reverse time order gimmick never really works for me). But even with his best plays, Americans don't seem to be able to do his work as well as the Brits.
#19re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/5/05 at 11:40pmI've seen the BETRAYL movie and THE CARETAKER on Broadway - that's his only work that I've seen, but I've read most of the others. I guess I don't hate all of his work, I do enjoy BETRAYAL.
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#20re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/6/05 at 12:28amTennessee Williams!
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#21re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/6/05 at 12:52am
I don't have one favorite i have a list of favorites:
Donald Margulies
David Lindsay Abaire It is off the wall but i love it.
Charles Busch
Neil Simon
Shakespeare
Edward Albee
Harvey Fierstein
Wendy Wasserstein
Updated On: 2/6/05 at 12:52 AM
#23re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/6/05 at 1:35amNeil Simon
#24re: favorite playwright
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:03amDavid Lindsay Abaire's work is wonderful, trailblazing, and visionary. "Fuddy Meers", "Wonder of the World", and especially "Kimberly Akimbo" are three of the most vibrant works for the theatre in a very, very long time.
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