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  • She was saying she knew a playwright—a "dear, dear man," as she described him—who had been imprisoned under the charge of being a communist subversive.†  (source)
  • The man knows his pre-Hegira playwrights.†  (source)
  • Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions.†  (source)
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  • Jack Torrance, acclaimed playwright and winner of the New York Critics Circle Award.†  (source)
  • She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets.†  (source)
  • Who cares if Mrs. Windermere was taking forever being The Playwright out in the lobby?†  (source)
  • Their works and those of dozens of poets, nonfiction writers, playwrights, essayists, and critics carry out to the English-speaking world a linguistic standard of the highest order.†  (source)
  • MICHAEL OATMAN is a playwright, producer, and director living in Cleveland, Ohio.†  (source)
  • At a time when the playwrights grouped about the courts of England and France (a little later, of Venice) were enriching the parts of women with studies in wit, charm, passion and hysteria, the dramatists of Spain kept their eyes on their heroes, on gentlemen torn between the conflicting claims of honor, or, as sinners, returning at the last moment to the cross.†  (source)
  • I recall also watching Mr George Bernard Shaw, the renowned playwright, at dinner one evening, examining closely the dessert spoon before him, holding it up to the light and comparing its surface to that of a nearby platter, quite oblivious to the company around him.†  (source)
  • There's where American playwrights put it all over these darn old European glooms.†  (source)
  • The first time I went, Mommy took me to the roundup point, a community center in Far Rockaway, once the home of middle-class whites and Jews like playwright Neil Simon, but long since turned black, and it seemed that the only white person for miles was my own mother.†  (source)
  • If today, as things go, the playwrights give us stupid comedies to play and puppets to represent instead of men, remember we are proud to have given life to immortal works here on these very boards!†  (source)
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