This text explores the inspirations and creative process of America's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights since 1990. There is a chapter on each playwright: Wasserstein, Wilson, Simon, Schenkkan, Kushner, Albee, Foote, Larson, Vogel, Edson and Margulies.
This text explores the inspirations and creative process of America's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights since 1990. There is a chapter on each playwr...
(Limelight). The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the country. Herrington traces the roots of Wilson's drama back to the visual artists and jazz musicians who inspired award-winning plays like Ma Rainey's Come and Gone, Fences and The Piano Lesson . From careful analysis of evolving playscripts and from interviews with Wilson and theater professionals who have worked closely with him, Herrington offers a portrait of the playwright as thinker and craftsman.
(Limelight). The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theaters th...
