U.S. and Canadian playwrights confront the new political correctness

From The New Statesman (London) and The National Post (Canada): In the States, Christopher Shinn and other playwrights address the current political timidity in American theatre. In Toronto, The Wrecking Ball festival invites playwrights to start fighting back.

 

Bernard Shaw would know what to do

From the Times Literary Supplement (London): Bernard Shaw biographer Michael Holroyd argues that, while Shaw may have fallen out of fashion in the 21st-century, we've never needed him more than we do now.

 

Flyover: Neil Simon snubs Neil Simon Festival

From The Salt Lake City Tribune and the Winston-Salem Journal: Hey, wait a minute. If Neil Simon hates air travel so much that he can't manage, after four seasons, to show up for the only festival in the world devoted to his plays, then how come he can fly to L.A. to talk to critics about getting the Mark Twain Prize?

 

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