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	village voice > theater > Brooklyn Boy by Michael Feingold
		Donald Margulies's new play, Brooklyn Boy, is an elegy for the past, an outpouring of indefinable feelings guided by two sets of archival data, one personal, the other literary.
		Brooklyn-born, Margulies has obviously lived the substance of this play: So much of it resonates from his previous works that it has the quality of an interim report, not so much a midlife crisis as a midlife stocktaking before moving on to the next phase.
		Here, too, Margulies twists unexpected feelings out of the familiar; none of the scenes works out quite as you would expect, and the last, after edging close to blatant sketch comedy, shifts startlingly in tone when the featherhead turns out to be, of all improbable things, a convincing actor.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0506,feingold,60882,11.html (766 words)

	South Coast Repertory Playgoers Guide - 'Brooklyn Boy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald Margulies, the last playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the ’90s, was also among the decade’s first Pulitzer finalists, in 1991-92, with Sight Unseen.
		Margulies does not have the master work plan of an August Wilson, the singular voice of a Pinter or Mamet, or the political urgencies of a Paula Vogel or Tony Kushner to shape and drive his work from play to play.
		Margulies credits these groups for giving him his education in theatre – seeing how actors and directors worked, how scenes were structured, and to write with certain actors in mind.
	www.scr.org /season/04-05season/playgoers/brooklyn/snlbrooklyn.html (2050 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was only after Bob Margulies' death at 62 in 1987 ("He basically died of malpractice," the writer says), that the author was able to explore his feelings about father in "The Loman Family Picnic".
		Margulies believes losing his mother and father while still in his 20's gave him a certain fearlessness as a writer.
		Nevertheless, success was so elusive for Margulies that he considered leaving the theater altogether after toiling for a decade to establish himself as a playwright.
	www.jewishjournal.com /archive/10.13.00/art.10.13.00.html (683 words)

	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		"Margulies' play is an affecting character study and a well-drawn portrait of the insular world of fiction writers, demonstrating his gift for sharply written and incisive dialogue." —Hollywood Reporter.
		What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful, shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz.
		As always, Margulies is literate, intellectually stimulating, and able to create characters of both dramatic and human interest.
	www.dramatists.com /cgi-bin/db/single.asp?index=0&key=2737 (301 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		On the surface, Donald Margulies’s new play, “Brooklyn Boy” (at the Biltmore, under the direction of Daniel Sullivan), is a rueful account of what passes on these shores for literary success; beneath that familiar terrain, however, it is an attempt to map a much murkier emotional landscape: the jealousy that such success inevitably inspires.
		Margulies, who wrote a screenplay for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Dinner with Friends,” takes pleasure in showing how the envy of the talentless is expressed in Hollywood—through a habitual attempt to sabotage meaning.
		Although Margulies is expert at withholding information—Manny dies, we learn later, in the midst of the Hollywood fiasco—he isn’t equally disciplined at withholding explanation.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/050214crth_theatre (1299 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize-Drama-April 13,2000
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The Pulitzer for drama this year went to Donald Margulies for his play "Dinner with Friends." It's a rueful comedy about love, commitment, and friendship in the age of divorce.
		DONALD MARGULIES: Oh, gosh, you know, I think from the first time I was taken to the theater at the age of nine.
		DONALD MARGULIES: Well, it's very different because in theater my voice is still the purest that it can be as a writer.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/jan-june00/margulies_4-13.html (1471 words)

	Welcome to Theatre Reviews Limited
		Playwright Donald Margulies has achieved the near-impossible with his new (and assured hit) play.
		In "Dinner with Friends," Margulies' accomplishes the on stage zenith that teachers of creative writing have always aimed their students toward, penning unique and therefore universal characterizations, given breath and life by four excellent actors.
		Margulies is among the few dramatists who can successfully go a step beyond that time-tested structure.
	www.theatrereviews.com /dinnerfriends.html (782 words)

	TCG Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald Margulies: The prospect of collaboration is one of the aspects of theatre that attracted me to playwriting.
		Donald Margulies: In playwriting, or at least the kind of playwriting I do, scenes consist of a succession of beats that are bridged by what one hopes is seamless transitions.
		Donald Margulies: I hope to be productive for the next thirty or forty years, and my objective is to continually challenge myself and to surprise, not only myself, but my audiences.
	www.tcg.org /chat/Transcripts/margulies_transcript.htm (1774 words)

	Donald Margulies - ny i Norge
		Donald Margulies, an award-winning playwright and Yale faculty member, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama this week for "Dinner with Friends," a play about how a married couple's divorce affects their friends.
		Among his celebrated works are "Collected Stories," "Sight Unseen" and "The Model Apartment." His two-character play "Collected Stories," a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, concerns the relationship that develops between an established older writer and her young aspiring protegé as their respective careers wane and rise.
		Margulies did grow up in such a family, where Broadway shows and movies were as much part of the cultural landscape as potato pancakes and bar mitzvah parties.
	www.scenekunst.no /pub/2004s/2004_1_28_17.6.21.shtml (674 words)

	The Theatre School - Performances Section - Past Seasons - 2000 - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald Margulies, 45, grew usalesman as a father and a housewife mother.
		Margulies studied art through high school and won a scholarship to Pratt Institute where he stayed for a year and a half.
		Margulies now lives in New Haven and teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
	theatreschool.depaul.edu /perform/past/0001/s1raiser00.php (828 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - New Jersey "The Loman Family Picnic" - 9/26/03
		Margulies has said that at the age of 11, he became fascinated by the similarities between his family and that of Willie Loman.
		While to some extent Margulies (in words appropriate to his 11 year surrogate Mitchell) and composer David Shire send up the generic nature of some musical comedies, they are on target in capturing the style of musicals of that era, and their affection for the genre shines through.
		Margulies accomplishes all this in a play that is humorous and pays tribute to the important, transformative role that art can play in our lives.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/nj/nj17.html (1223 words)

	God of Vengeance:Margulies, Donald; Asch, Sholem:1559362332:eCampus.com
		Donald Margulies offers up a vivid new adaptation of Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama, reset on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the century.
		The original English language edition first appeared on Broadway in 1923, but was closed down and the cast arrested for its portrayal of a lesbian love affair on stage.
		Donald Margulies is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Dinner with Friends." His other work includes "Collected Stories "and "Sight Unseen."
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1559362332&referrer=yah04 (123 words)

	Problematic Play
		Donald Margulies, fast becoming one of our current theater’s most frequently produced playwrights, can be the perfect miniaturist.
		Margulies wants to immerse us in the world of New York literati, but there’s something smug and gossipy about his style.
		Bellwoar may marginally overplay Lisa’s initial ditziness (this is more Margulies’ fault than hers), but by the second scene her warmth and charm give the character a dimensionality that goes beyond the script.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/011300/ae.theater.shtml (672 words)

	A Memory Piece
		Oh, I forgot, in a prior scene, the father appears as he was in life and, in an useless and boring dialogue, reveals why he was such a malcontent.
		As Margulies wrote him, he is a pest, a jerk, and a nag, continually harassing his friend with his Judaism.
		If a playwright has something new to say, that's fine, but Donald Marguiles' "Brooklyn Boy" is an old story: the successful one who can't forget his roots and wants the other side of the tracks but is uncomfortable with that as well.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /mc05024t.htm (704 words)

	Donald Margulies has said that Dinner With Friends is “a mature play,” one that “I obviously could not have ...
		Donald Margulies has said that Dinner With Friends is “a mature play,” one that “I obviously could not have written earlier in
		While Margulies offers compelling arguments both for remaining in or ending a marriage, he does not come down on either side; rather, he lays out the hard questions about the changes that time brings and the effects of those changes on characters who doubt themselves as much as others.
		They are with us always.” And for Margulies, as for so many playwrights, theatre offers a way to confront these sad but inescapable truths about life—in his view, perhaps now more so than ever.
	www.unc.edu /depts/drama/playmakers/dinnerarticle.html (317 words)

	Brooklyn Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald Margulies has given us six real and complicated characters, and Daniel Sullivan’s direction brings this uncomfortable world into three dimensions.
		Margulies has created a dense character with Alison, and Ari Graynor hits not only the notes but the silences in between.
		In the very last scene, Margulies tries to let Eric come to terms with his past, his family, and his Judaism, but ultimately, Brooklyn Boy is not a play about revisiting the past, or a play about the dying.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/boy828.htm (819 words)

	Dinner with Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama.
		Donald Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, CT. He is the author of numerous plays, including Collected Stories and Sight Unseen.
		This is an emotionally charged, witty, and brilliantly told drama of four friends struggling to understand marriage, divorce, intamacy, and each other.
	besttop.ru /item1559361948/Dinner_with_Friends.html (898 words)

	Dinner with Friends
		Drawing off the experience of his own long-term marriage and those of his friends, Margulies examines the friendship of couples who have had an unspoken agreement that they would be friends- as couples-'til death do they part.
		Donald Margulies' is the author of Collected Stories, Sight Unseen (Obie Award for Best New American Play, Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Loman Family Picnic, The Model Apartment (Obie Award), and his adaptation of Sholom Asch's Yiddish classic, God of Vengeance.
		Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
	www.theatrezone.org /productions/past/dwf/dwf.htm (395 words)

	Chico News and Review - Fine Arts - July 17, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Margulies masterfully weaves exposition through the dialogue, revealing the characters' past while portraying their present.
		The artistic Beth is the most obviously sympathetic of the four, and Cynthia Lammel does a brilliant job of portraying her as an intelligent, bewildered and wounded woman.
		Margulies' script explores the lives of these superficially banal, 40-something couples with a sympathetic eye, a fine ear for detail-laden conversation and perhaps just a hint of sentimental condescension.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2003-07-17/finearts.asp (491 words)

	TCG Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald Margulies: I think there are certainly works that are relevant to young people.
		Donald Margulies: Frankly, I think that casting plays with performers that people are curious to see may help to market plays to younger audiences.
		Donald Margulies: Not topics so much, but I would like to, and plan to, write a play that families can see together.
	www.tcg.org /Chat/Transcripts/margulies_transcript.htm (1774 words)

	Yale > Theater Studies > Donald Margulies
		Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts Theatre, (New York), Comedie des Champs-Elysees (Paris), Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk nominee).
		Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
		Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America.
	www.yale.edu /theaterstudies/people/margulies.html (216 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Brooklyn homecoming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Margulies was born in Sheepshead Bay, grew up in Trump Village in Coney Island and was educated at John Dewey High, the Pratt Institute and SUNY Purchase.
		Margulies wants to dispel any notion that "Brooklyn Boy" is a nostalgia piece.
		What Donald Margulies found was that at heart he is still a Brooklyn boy.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/theater/v-pfriendly/story/275726p-236123c.html (772 words)

	Dinner with Friends (2001) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Having seen Donald Margulies' play when it opened in New York, I was interested in what Norman Jewison, the director, had done with it for the screen version.
		Margulies did his own adaptation, although, it appears to this viewer, the stage version was more satisfying.
		Margulies has tried to open his play, but it just doesn't go anywhere.
	www.imdb.com /Details?0271461 (652 words)

	Aisle Say (NY): SIGHT UNSEEN
		Margulies delivers it all with the usual crackling dialogue, and the ensemble is right on target.
		Shenkman bravely dives into both his character’s unpleasant neediness, facile sense of celebrity and moral ambiguity; as the interviewer, Ana Reeder is likewise strikingly enigmatic: is her profile meant to be an attack, an expose, a seduction or merely a shameless thrust toward the truth?
		In short, a solid, respectful rendering that lets the play be what it is. Which, with most of Margulies’ work, is all that’s really required.
	www.aislesay.com /NY-SIGHT.html (555 words)

	village voice > theater > by Michael Feingold
		Subtle Donald Margulies: Even when he tackles an old familiar tale, you can count on him to tell it differently.
		Even at the end, where Margulies arranges his ironies a little too tidily, they aren't the usual ironies, and some of his omissions are as striking as the points he emphasizes in drawing what's almost too complex to be called his moral.
		For a double-whammy twist, the child most noticeably upset by the split is Gabe and Karen's son, while Tom and Beth find their sex lives reenergized by it, in ways poised on the previously unsuspected interface of Strindberg and sitcom.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/9946,feingold,10052,11.html (1187 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Kaleidoscope : Donald Margulies' The Brooklyn Boy
		But Margulies’ dialogues are impeccable, he maintains a perfect balance between conflict and humor, and the situations and relationships are moving and intense.
		It is not what Margulies writes – it is the way he writes, and not only for the sharp, naturalistic dialogues, but also for the accessibility and the universality of the characters, the duality Eric Weiss lives with, and the conflicts he struggles with both within himself and with others.
		Donald Margulies, who set the bar high for himself with his previous plays, drew mixed reactions for Brooklyn Boy.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1260 (2861 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Collected Stories"
		Margulies tells of Ruth, a successful New York writer and teacher, and Lisa, one of Ruth’s students, who passes from protégée to colleague to betrayer in the course of six years.
		Margulies doesn’t settle for a neat ending --- Lisa scores as many points as does Ruth in their knock-down debate; non-writers, no doubt, would side with Ruth --- but imagine all prints of CITIZEN KANE being destroyed if Hearst had gotten his way.
		Margulies clearly knows and enjoys what he is talking about and the women’s rapport quickly proves infectious; I wouldn’t have minded an evening of Ruth and Lisa simply discussing literature in talk-show fashion.
	www.theatermirror.com /csgsccr.htm (959 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "The Loman Family Picnic" in Southern Florida 5/4/05
		It is likely that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies would be surprised at being compared to Tolstoy in any way, but not surprised to be tied to playwright Arthur Miller.
		For Margulies admits to being strongly influenced by Arthur Miller, and that The Loman Family Picnic, originally produced in 1989, is an unpredictable tribute to Miller's Death Of A Salesman.
		So, regardless of which of Margulies' multiple endings you choose to believe, they all work because they all are true to heart at some level.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sfla/sfla79.html (784 words)

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