Jerry Mayer, a nonagenarian from St. Louis has written and/or produced for many classic TV shows, among them The Facts of Life, M*A*S*H, Bewitched, Tabitha, All in the Family, Punky Brewster, Room 222 ...

Local public relations professional Eric Mansfield has been on fire as a new playwright, writing eight full-length plays in the last two years. The Akron native has had eight productions of seven of ...

Candance Chong is a playwright from Hong Kong. She is currently in Iowa as part of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Since 1967, about 1,500 writers from more than 150 countries ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeryl Brunner covers theater, entertainment and lifestyle stories. Mfoniso Udofia was a student at Wellesley College, firmly ...

Lauren Gunderson rubbed her hands together in excitement. “We’re about to get this playwriting class started,” said the prolific playwright, wearing her signature vibrant eyeglasses and a Shakespeare ...

Playwright Edward Albee has long reached a point in his career where he wears the mantle of being “the greatest living American playwright” like a comfortable old sweater. In one of the closing panels ...

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James Ijames just may be the playwright of the moment. He recently had five plays running in four different cities. And in April 2023, Ijames made his Broadway debut with Fat Ham, a reimagined Hamlet ...

This much of Kenneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave is true: There was a Curt Herzstark. He invented the first hand-held, four-function calculator. The Nazis sent him to a concentration camp, officially ...

It is an indictment of our theater that a playwright who has inspired artists across generations is so little known to the average theatergoer. Sadly, Adrienne Kennedy, the 89-year-old African ...