In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights

by David Savran

Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.

Genres: Writing

330 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Matt]

The collective knowledge on the subject of writing for the theater in these pages is a gold mine. That being said the book oddly enough was a tough read. It had to do with the constant repetitive and seemingly obsessive nature of Savran trying to connect every playwright to Bertolt Brecht.