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Margie Walsh, a lifelong resident of Southie, a blue collar Boston neighborhood, [3] is fired for tardiness from her job as a cashier at a dollar store.A single mother, and knowing that she and her handicapped adult daughter Joyce, "are only a single paycheck away from desperate straits", [4] Margie goes to her old high school boyfriend Mike — now a doctor, but formerly from her neighborhood ...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Playwrights' Platform is a not-for-profit cooperative organization of playwrights based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The organization has been in existence since 1973 and is "the most established and longest-lived playwrights' group in the area". [1] It was founded by writers Steven Lydenberg, Allen Sternfield, and Saul Zachary. [2]
William Motter Inge (/ ˈ ɪ n dʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
Hotchner was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Sally [9] (née Rossman), a synagogue/Sunday school administrator, and Samuel Hotchner, a jeweler. [5] [10] His family was Jewish. [11] He attended Soldan High School. In 1940, he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in history and law . [12]
Megan Sandberg-Zakian succeeded her as BPT's artistic director and playwright Nathan Alan Davis as the head of the MFA Playwriting Program. The building's front theater was subsequently dedicated the Kate Snodgrass Stage; the proscenium-style theater at the rear of the building—BPT's original performance space—is the Derek Walcott Stage.
John Shea (born February 10, 1964, in Somerville, Massachusetts) is an American playwright. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most of his plays are set in his hometown of Somerville, an old industrial suburb of Boston which has gentrified rapidly in the early 21st century. [ 3 ]
Willimon lived in Hawaii, San Francisco, California, [6] and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before settling in St. Louis, Missouri, [1] after Willimon's father retired to become a lawyer. [1] Willimon attended John Burroughs School, where he took drama classes taught by Jon Hamm [7] [8] and graduated in 1995.