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Stephen Adly Guirgis, a New York playwright who specializes in urban pressure-cooker dramas, has a gift for writing subway strap-hanger harangues.
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
The Musical says that her connection with the material stretches back 15 years to when Donnersmarck approached the late Tom Stoppard to see if the playwright would be interested in working with him on an adaptation of the film.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
Wilson isn’t a hurried playwright.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
In classical Athens the playwright Aristophanes attacked purveyors of knowledge for being intellectually untrustworthy, essentially deceitful.
—Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
The Musical says that her connection with the material stretches back 15 years to when Donnersmarck approached the late Tom Stoppard to see if the playwright would be interested in working with him on an adaptation of the film.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
Wilson isn’t a hurried playwright.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
In classical Athens the playwright Aristophanes attacked purveyors of knowledge for being intellectually untrustworthy, essentially deceitful.
—Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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