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...Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child will open April 30 on Broadway. "The play was never designed for Broadway," says Shepard. "It started in a 95-seat theater in San Francisco." But under the direction of another sometime film star, Gary Sinise, things changed. "It's a lot clearer now," the playwright says. "And the humor has been brought out." Fans of Shepard's chiseled appearance can stay at home. He doesn't intend to do Broadway himself. "I wouldn't want to act onstage," he says. "I don't have the rigor for it." Followers of his work have more luck...
...freshet for the American repertoire." Among the 224 new plays in the fest's 20 years are two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, as well as Agnes of God, Extremities and off-Broadway's current Below the Belt. And however perilous the playwright's lot, plenty of folks want to join the wake. Each year, Jory and his staff read an astonishing 3,000 scripts...
...York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with the playwright is currently asunder, because Lane passed up a chance to co-star in the movie version of Love! Valour! Compassion! Lane blamed a schedule conflict, but McNally has stopped talking to him. "I assume we'll get over it," says Lane. "We work extremely well together. I would hate...
...about finished reading last month's "women's issue" of the New Yorker. Instead of the signature snub-nosed man adorning its cover, it features a woman in pink peering through a lorgnette. The articles inside range from a scrutiny of Las Vegas hotel workers to a sketch by playwright Wendy Wasserstein about her over-achieving older sister...
Wendy Wasserstein, his daughter, is the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright who wrote "The Heidi Chronicles...