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1982–1983 Obie Awards

Best New American PlayTina Howe, Harry Kondoleon and David Mamet shared the $1,000 prize.PlaywritingCaryl Churchill, Top GirlsTina Howe, distinguished playwritingHarry Kondoleon, most…

Poems: A Dream

by WilliamBlakeInfant JoyOn Another's SorrowA Dream Once a dream did weave a shade O'er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled…

Dream (Play)

Conceived by:Louise Westergaard and Jack WranglerLyrics:Johnny MercerDirector and choreography:Wayne CilentoMusic:Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Rube Bloom, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson,…

Walcott, Derek Alton

(Encyclopedia) Walcott, Derek Alton, 1930–2017, West Indian dramatist and poet, b. Castries, St. Lucia, grad. Univ. of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1953. His grandfathers were both white, one of…

Brewer's: Midwife

(Anglo-Saxon, mid, with; wif, woman). The nurse who is with the mother in her labour. Midwife of men's thoughts. So Socrates termed himself; and, as Mr. Grote observes, “No other man ever…

Shakespeare Quotes: Comedies

All the world's a stage William Shakespeare Related Links William ShakespeareQuiz: Famous Quotes from Shakespeare Shakespeare's PlaysShakespeare's SonnetsQuiz: Shakespeare's…

Sara Teasedale: At Night

At NightWe are apart; the city grows quiet between us, She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes, The tangle of traffic is ended, the cars are empty, Five streets divide us…

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Director:Eric StylesWriter:Catherine LinstrumFox Searchlight; R; 92 minutesRelease:10/99Cast:Samantha Morton, Lee Ross, Rupert Graves If Dreaming of Joseph Lees were a romance novel, it would…

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the grand literary figure of the Western world. During England's Elizabethan period he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth, and dozens of other plays which continue to…