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Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times , was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed." [1] Wilson helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning ...
Lanford Wilson was an American playwright, a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements. His plays are known for experimental staging, simultaneous dialogue, and deferred character exposition. He won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Talley’s Folly (1979).
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Mar 25, 2011 · Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose work — earthy, realist, greatly admired, widely performed — centered on the sheer ordinariness of marginality, died on Thursday...
May 23, 2019 · During his first period of playwriting (1963-1972), Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) struggled to learn his trade—mainly in the convivial atmosphere of Off-Off-Broadway, where it did not matter if sometimes audiences did not show up.
Mar 25, 2011 · Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright whose work made waves both on and off-Broadway, died Thursday at age 73.
Mar 24, 2011 · March 24, 2011. Lanford Wilson liked losers. This is not to say that he gloried, masochistically, in defeat. But as a playwright, he knew that the most poignant drama often radiates from...
Mar 24, 2011 · Lanford Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright from Missouri who wrote of urban desperation in rich and emotional dramas centered on the struggles of small-town Midwestern life, has...
