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The 8th annual New Works Festival gets things started from Oct. 9 to 13, and offers audiences the ability to see fresh stagings by playwrights in need of early reactions to help develop and hone their writing.
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Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
The playwrights essentially used the moral panic over evolution at the heart of the play to stand in for the contemporary moral panic over communism.
—Time, 10 July 2025
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose own dramas were influenced by Beckett, directed one of the earliest South African productions in 1962.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
In Malaparte, Maurizio Serra’s outstanding biography of the Italian dandy, journalist, playwright, would-be diplomat and filmmaker Curzio Malaparte, the author makes clear that Benjamin was correct.
—Book Marks
july 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
The playwrights essentially used the moral panic over evolution at the heart of the play to stand in for the contemporary moral panic over communism.
—Time, 10 July 2025
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose own dramas were influenced by Beckett, directed one of the earliest South African productions in 1962.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
In Malaparte, Maurizio Serra’s outstanding biography of the Italian dandy, journalist, playwright, would-be diplomat and filmmaker Curzio Malaparte, the author makes clear that Benjamin was correct.
—Book Marks
july 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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