The Future of New Work. (Special Section).
American Theatre, November, 2002 by O'Quinn, Jim
IT WAS STEVEN DIETZ WHO STARTED THE HULLABALOO. "Our playwrights" (he declared, boldly and somewhat impolitely, in the May '87 issue of American Theatre) "have, with the adaptability of cockroaches, learned to write brilliantly to fit the form--and in today's theatre, more often than not, the given form is not production, it is the staged reading.
We have a wealth of these well-made plays because we have a wealth of staged reading writers." The young Minneapolis playwright was publicly expressing sentiments that were usually shared only when bands of ...
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