According to an urban legend ascribed to George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, he coined the word “ghoti” to underline the absurdities of English spelling.

Source: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/opposition-anglesey-name-campaign-last-27832520

According to Yerkin Zhuasbekov, a renowned Kazakh theater playwright and an art history scientist, orteke has brought a wide variety of theatrical styles and unique “steppe theater” to Kazakh folklore.

Source: https://astanatimes.com/2023/01/orteke-kazakh-art-strings-that-tie-music-and-puppetry-together-video/

A few days after playwright Wendy Kout was asked to create a play about Holocaust survivors, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville with chants against Jews and immigrants.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/inspired-by-hamilton-diverse-docudrama-based-on-survivor-testimony-is-touring-us/

After the show, when asked where he got the material for such an intensely personal story, playwright Kim Powers responded saying.

Source: https://sonomasun.com/2023/02/15/review-sidekicked-in-sonoma/

Alaudin Ullah, the playwright and star of “Dishwasher Dreams” at the Old Globe.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/story/2023-09-15/comedian-filmmaker-alaudin-ullah-bring-solo-play-dishwasher-dreams-to-the-old-globe

A poet, writer, playwright, essayist and translator, Tolnai is considered one of the most important contemporary Hungarian authors.

Source: https://sloveniatimes.com/vilenica-prize-goes-to-otto-tolnai/

Australian playwright Tom Wright’s reworking of the story of the Elephant Man follows Joseph Merrick through the workhouse, the freakshow and hospital, while interrogating ideas around capitalism, disability and difference.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/autumn-arts-preview-tv-theatre-film-art-games-music

“Avaaz” is Iranian-American playwright Shayan’s first play at SCR.

Source: https://www.newportbeachindy.com/world-premiere-of-avaaz-at-south-coast-repertory-a-personal-tale-of-coming-to-america/

Bock’s music cleverly accompanies a story by American playwright Joseph Stein of a Jewish milkman named Tevye, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters in the small town of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia around 1905.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/plum-high-school-students-prepare-for-fiddler-on-the-roof/

Both daughters were also artistically inclined, with Sonia becoming known throughout Canada for her paintings of the Cariboo, and Dru becoming a celebrated playwright and author.

Source: https://www.wltribune.com/community/haphazard-history-onward-ranch-steeped-in-history/

But the playwright says things really opened up once he visited the farm itself.

Source: https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/stage/growing-something-good/

Charlie, a Bristol Evening World trainee with Stoppard, also shared a flat with the playwright.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11681989/EPHRAIM-HARDCASTLE-Kings-museum-plan-Buckingham-Palace.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Director, actor and playwright Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the conviction of the person who killed a gay man in Grenada.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/08/tyler-perry-offers-100000-reward-for-information-on-gay-mans-murder/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tyler-perry-offers-100000-reward-for-information-on-gay-mans-murder

Drawing upon theater techniques associated with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, British playwright Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play utilizes the 17th-century witchcraft trials in England to explore gender and power relationships.

Source: https://flaglerlive.com/crt-23-24-season/

Drawing upon theater techniques associated with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, British playwright Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play utilizes the 17th-century witchcraft trials in England to explore gender and power relationships.

Source: https://flaglerlive.com/crt-23-24-season/

For the second time, Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg has won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Source: https://citynews.com.au/2023/clampdown-on-buy-now-pay-later-following-abuse-claims/

"Fueled by the desire to be defined for who she is rather than how she looks, Barbara aspires to become a playwright under the auspices of famous actress Nell Gwyn ('s Ruth Negga), powerful mistress to the King.

Source: https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-last-of-us-bella-ramsey-cast-new-movie-monstrous-beauty/

He adds that he’s discussed his encroaching mortality with his friend, the playwright Tom Stoppard, who is 86. “He’s in the same place,” he says.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/pete-townshend-the-who-interview-b2423980.html

“Here We Are,” the musical was struggling to complete before his death in 2021 with playwright David Ives, had its premiere at the Shed, a deluxe venue that opened at the Hudson Yards in 2019.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-15/off-broadway-rising-aubrey-plaza-alicia-keys-stephen-sondheim-dianne-wiest-john-turturro

He then presents the playwright (Edward Norton), who rises from his typewriter to stand on a bare stage and present the characters.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/movies/asteroid-city-review-wes-anderson.html