Howard Stein: tough love for writers; He asks: what is the bird you're trying to catch in the net of your play?(PEOPLE)(Biography)

"The playwright has the luxury of re-creating a human experience that will illuminate and reflect for the audience the energy and the beauty of a life being lived." Howard Stein said this, and he ought to know. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a career spanning more than half a century, Stein has devoted himself to the education of American playwrights and to the mentoring of dramatic writing--an odyssey that has led him through a number of universities: Northeastern, Texas, Iowa, SUNY Purchase, Yale and Columbia.

For many of these years, he has been the chief play ...

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