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Playwriting:
From the Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
As chronicled in a new TV documentary, a chance encounter with some three card-monte players led to Suzan Lori-Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and a historic Pulitzer Prize.
From The New Zealand Herald (Auckland)
Playwright Hone Kouka stirs the Home Fires: "A lot of Maori work is really gritty and realistic - I want to move quietly away from the pigeon hole we've been pushed into."
From The Kingston Whig-Standard (Canada)
With the film adaptation of her play Perfect Pie in theatres, Judith Thompson says she's in no hurry to return to screenwriting: "Not until I need to pay for the kids' university."
From CNN
In My Old Lady, a middle-aged man is forced to confront his father's flaws. But playwright Israel Horovitz would rather put his own father behind him.
From NorthJersey.com
Entering its twenty-fifth season, New York's Women's Project and Productions continues its pioneering service to female playwrights.
From AllAfrica.com
The Southern Africa Theatre Initiative thinks big, commissioning eleven regional dramatists to come up with a play each.
From The Age (Melbourne)
As three of his plays open at the Melbourne Festival, Wallace (The Designated Mourner) Shawn reflects on his homeland post 9/11: "The American public were kept in an isolation tank, where people were not allowed to criticise the prevailing view."
From The Houston Chronicle:
From both sides now: In The General from America, trans-Atlantic playwright Richard Nelson continues to explore the vast gulf between Yanks and Brits.
From The Scotsman:
After a new play takes a drubbing at the Edinburgh International Festival, its creators ask: what's so terrible about failure?
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Screen & TV Writing:
From Salon
With Pulp Fiction, he helped turn the crime thriller on its head. Now screenwriter Roger Avary does the same to teen movies with The Rules of Attraction.
From The News & Advance (Lynchburg, Virginia)
April needs a house. Screenwriter-director Randall (Braveheart) Wallace, founder of Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity, returns to his hometown to help build her one.
From Written By
Writer-director Lee Rose's The Truth About Jane earned Lifetime Network its best ratings ever. So how come they hate her? And how come they keep hiring her?
From The Independent (U.K.)
Why are Britain's legendary soap operas losing viewers by the washtub-full? Could it be the sleazy storylines?
From L.A. Weekly
In a town not known for its openness to Black writers, screenwriter John (Undercover Brother, Three Kings) Ridley is outwriting almost everybody.
From The Indian Express (Bombay)
In India, "kitty parties" are a source of female bonding -- and a source of fame and fortune for TV serial writer Shobhaa De.
From the BBC
Is the screenplay of Nicholas Cage's directorial debut, Sonny, purloined property?
From About.com
King of the adaptation, Ted Tally, talks about revisiting Hannibal Lecter in his screenplay for Red Dragon.
From The Washington Times
Just an idea: instead of remaking movies that were good the first time around, why not remake the flops?
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