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The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.
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News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
James Baldwin — the novelist, playwright, poet, public speaker and activist who is celebrated as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century — was born Aug. 2, 1924.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2025
For The Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer died Jan. 17 in Richfield Springs, N.Y. of congestive heart failure.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
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News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
James Baldwin — the novelist, playwright, poet, public speaker and activist who is celebrated as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century — was born Aug. 2, 1924.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2025
For The Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer died Jan. 17 in Richfield Springs, N.Y. of congestive heart failure.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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