New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 - Softcover

Lepidus, D. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157525297X ISBN 13: 9781575252971

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2003

Synopsis

These six plays represent the best that American drama has to offer. They're wonderful reads; but more important, they are plays audiences will love. - D.L. Lepidus

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About the Author

D.L. Lepidus is a freelance critic and editor who has been writing about New York theater for over twenty-five years. Since 1993, his work has appeared in the theater columns for the Chelsea Clinton News and the Westsider.

Reviews

New playwrights, indeed. Of the six represented here, only Douglas Carter Beane, author of the screwy off-Broadway hit As Bees in Honey Drown, could be said to be anything like a nationally known name, and then only among hardcore theater devotees. The rest quickly prove with the quality of their plays that they, too, deserve similar attention. For Chagrin Falls, a smart, moving portrait of a town economically dependent on a nearby maximum security prison, Mia McCullough certainly does, as does Howard Michael Gould for Diva, a look at the making and unmaking of a sit-com that is funnier and more honest than most of what appears on the box. Ironically, neither of those plays, editor Lepidus notes, has been produced in New York. Not that New York production guarantees anything. Evan Smith's all-too-real comic look at graduate-school mind games, Psych, premiered at the well-regarded Playwrights Horizons and yet is no better known than Chagrin Falls. With any luck, however, this anthology will help these writers gain much-deserved broader audiences. Jack Helbig
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Edition details

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157525297X
• ISBN 13: 9781575252971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352