The Italian playwright’s biting political satire was recognized with 1997’s Nobel Prize for literature.
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News Obituaries
Edward Albee (1928 – 2016), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf playwright
by Legacy StaffAlbee was one of the most acclaimed and influential American playwrights of the 20th century. He won the Tony Award for best play for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1963) and …
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A century after Arthur Miller was born, we remember the prolific playwright’s legacy. Miller reflected the American experience in his work, exploring topics that resonated with his mid-20th-century audiences.
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Henning Mankell, the hesitant figurehead of Scandinavian crime fiction whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, has died, according to The Associated …
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Brian Friel, the Tony Award-winning playwright who created “Dancing at Lughnasa” and more than 30 other plays, has died in Ireland, according to The Associated Press. He was 86.The government …
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Jack Larson (1928–2015), played Jimmy Olsen on TV’s Adventures of Superman
by Legacy StaffHe later gave up acting and found a new career as a playwright.
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His blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a groundbreaking force in American culture.
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He gained global recognition as Ireland’s greatest poet since William Butler Yeats.
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The play that “changed American theatre forever” started with a few short lines from a long poem.
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Playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry is best known for “A Raisin in the Sun.” Today we celebrate her life and work.