WRIGHT ON STAGE: MONSTERS AND MIRACLES.(Frank Lloyd Wright)(Brief Article)

Visionary. Eccentric. Unabashedly egotistical. Frank Lloyd Wright is one of those figures who seem to invite hyperbolic labeling. Having self-dramatized during his lifetime, Wright tempts others to put his story onstage four decades after his death. That Wright's biography is tinged with violence and scandal--and that his personality was drenched in a particularly American brand of progress-centered hubris--only invites playwrights to try to make him into an iconic character: a New World Oedipus.

Since the well-received Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary "Frank Lloyd ...

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