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Robert Marasco (September 22, 1936 – December 6, 1998) was an American horror novelist, playwright, and teacher. He is best known for his 1970 Broadway play Child's Play, and his supernatural novel Burnt Offerings (1973), which was adapted into a 1976 film of the same name.
Dec 11, 1998 · Robert Marasco, a playwright and novelist who wrote the long-running Broadway thriller ''Child's Play,'' died on Sunday at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y....
Apr 4, 1971 · Robert F. Marasco, one of the eight Green Berets who were charged but never tried in the slaying two years ago of a South Vietnamese suspected to have been a double agent, says that he shot and...
Child's Play is a stage play written by Robert Marasco. It opened on Broadway on 12 February 1970 at the Royale Theatre and ran for 342 performances, closing on 12 December. The play was produced by David Merrick and directed by Joseph Hardy , with settings by Jo Mielziner .
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Dec 10, 1998 · Robert Marasco was born in the Bronx in 1936 and educated at Regis High School in Manhattan and Fordham University. A classical scholar, Marasco taught at Regis before turning to writing, with Child’s Play, an eerie melodrama about incidents of evil at a Catholic boys’ school.
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Dec 15, 1998 · Robert Marasco, playwright: born New York 22 September 1936; died Manhasset, New York 6 December 1998.
Robert Marasco (1936–1998) was an American playwright and novelist, best known for his Broadway hit 'Child's Play', which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play in 1970. He also wrote the novel 'Burnt Offerings', which was adapted into a 1976 horror film.
