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Some of the playwrights who have inspired me lately include Sheila Callaghan, Anne Washburn, Donald Margulies, Jordan Harrison and Jennifer Haley.
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The idea of infusing Dickens’s ghost story with Industrial Revolution-age science-fiction elements is intriguing, but director-playwright Jared McDaris doesn’t investigate the premise’s possibilities in this amateurish low-budget effort.
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The dialogue evokes that of playwrights like Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, and the lighting and color schemes seem to be recreating that of a stage production.
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Following the lead of other distinctive playwrights departing from traditional templates, like Annie Baker, DeLappe has a knack for making her artfulness appear almost accidental.
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There’s also a hotel within the hotel, a four-story Little House, once the childhood home of Dutch playwright P.C. Hooft.
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Junior Christmas Cabaret The theater is partnering with Milwaukee playwright Deanna Strasse on the Junior Christmas Cabaret.
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There's the artist, there's the playwright, the musicians and -- perhaps the oddest duck of this particular flock -- the tireless collector.
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Among the nearly 20 writers represented here: New Haven's Donald Margulies, Roxbury's A.R. Gurney and long-ago Wesleyan University playwright-in-residence Arthur Kopit.
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