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	Lanford Wilson
		Lanford Wilson is an American playwright who was born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri.
		He was raised in the Ozarks until, as a teenager, he moved to California to live with his father, from whom his mother had been long divorced.
		Wilson was a founding member of the Circle Theatre Company, which began in 1969.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lanford_Wilson.html (172 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Wilson, Lanford
		Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on April 13, 1937, the son of Ralph Eugene and Violetta Tate Wilson.
		Wilson briefly attended San Diego State, but as the play would indicate, the reunion was not a successful one, so Wilson left, moving to Chicago where he lived for six years, working as an artist for an advertising agency and taking a playwrighting course at a University of Chicago extension.
		Wilson has taken on a variety of subjects in his work; thus overt portrayals of gay men and their lives make up only a portion of his dramatic opus.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/wilson_l.html (1017 words)

	UH Today - Playwright Lanford Wilson to join UH School of Theatre faculty
		Wilson’s appointment is for the spring semester only, but Berger expressed hope that Wilson would consider extending his affiliation with the UH School of Theatre.
		Wilson was recruited by Albee to collaborate with him in supervising this year’s Playwright’s Workshop, the annual showcase of new work being staged by UH students.
		Wilson will teach the two day-to-day courses — playwrighting and production — that help develop the new works, and Albee will be on hand to help oversee their staging in April.
	www.uh.edu /uhtoday/2004/01jan/012104lwilson.html (664 words)

	Lanford Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lanford Wilson (born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American playwright.
		Wilson was a founding member of the Circle Repertory Company, (better known as Circle Rep) which began in 1969.
		In addition to writing plays, Wilson has written the texts for several twentieth century operas, including at least two collaborations with composer Lee Hoiby: Summer and Smoke (1971) and This is the Rill Speaking (1992).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lanford_Wilson (293 words)

	Wilson, Lanford Criticism and Essays
		While there, Wilson studied art and art history and also worked as a riveter at an aircraft plant, but the reunion with his father was short-lived.
		Wilson has been widely acknowledged for his contributions to the rise and success of off-Broadway theater as a legitimate venue for American drama.
		Despite the critical acclaim Wilson received early in his career, when he was often named among the most promising playwrights of his generation, his plays since the late 1980s have elicited a somewhat cooler reception.
	www.enotes.com /drama-criticism/wilson-lanford (1648 words)

	Burn This - Lanford Wilson
		Wilson was among the most fertile of the generation that gravitated to New York City in the 1960s in a period of accelerating esthetic and political change.
		That Lanford Wilson, often considered but unchosen until now, has finally received his recognition is undoubtedly due to the fact that until 1996 he was one of the few playwrights blessed with his own theatre.
		But flawed as the play and the current production may be, there is much here to reveal Lanford Wilson's virtues: the power of his dramatic observation, his humor, his skillful craftsmanship in creating dramatic dialogue and atmospheric scenes, his exploration of important themes about current malaise, and his sympathetic portrayal of marginal and eccentric characters.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/BurnThis.htm (799 words)

	PerformInk Online
		Wilson claims he was so devastated that he didn’t write a word of Serenading Louie for over a year.
		Wilson enthuses that the formation of Circle Repertory "changed everything." He suddenly had a home base and a group of committed actors for whom he could write challenging parts.
		Wilson’s awards include, among others, the Vernon Rice Award for Rimers of Eldritch (1965); the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Outer Circle Award and an Obie for Hot L Baltimore (1973); and another Obie for The Mound Builders (1975).
	www.performink.com /Archives/stagepersonae/2001/WilsonLanford.html (1797 words)

	rain dance
		Wilson pursues a worthwhile theme, but his play is couched in such diffuse, indirect terms that it is hard to string together the points he makes.
		Wilson's figures are people who sense that their best hope is to remove themselves, emotionally and geographically, as far away from where they're currently situated as possible.
		What makes Lanford Wilson such a valuable playwright is the variety of his subjects, the lightly worn research he brings to his characters’ professions and problems, and the compassionate understanding he invests in his creations.
	www.johnnysgreenpen.com /raindance.html (8677 words)

	School of Theatre
		Born on April 13, 1937, in Lebanon, Missouri, Lanford Wilson began writing at the University of Chicago in 1959 after enrolling in a playwriting class.
		Lemon Sky (1970), which Wilson describes as “completely autobiographical”, tells the story of a young man who moves in with the father who abandoned him and his mother when he was only five years old.
		Wilson’s awards include, among others, the Vernon Rice Award for Rimers of Eldrich (1965), the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Outer Circle Award, and an Obie for HOT’L BALTIMORE (1973) and another Obie for The Mound Builders (1975).
	www.hfac.uh.edu /theatre/facultyandstaff/lwilson/lwilson.html (418 words)

	Amazon.ca: Burn This: Books: Lanford Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This was the first Lanford Wilson play I had read, so I didn't quite know what to expect.
		Wilson is able to convey meaning in subtle ways and does not bog-down the play with overly-verbose dialogue or obvious statements.
		Wilson's use of homosexual issues is the perfect sprinkling: it is not the main focus of the play, but gives it just the extra touch.
	www.amazon.ca /Burn-This-Lanford-Wilson/dp/0809012537 (790 words)

	Lanford Wilson - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Wilson graduated to off-Broadway with the production of the full-length Balm in Gilead (1964) and moved to Broadway with The Gingham Dog (1968).
		The glory years: Lanford Wilson returns to form with a compassionate new play, 'Book of Days.'.
		Lanford Wilson partners with Edward Albee at University of Houston
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wilsonl1an.html (469 words)

	Book of Days - Lanford Wilson
		Four Quartets, "is my beginning." Lanford Wilson's latest play, Book of Days, receiving its New York premiere as part of the Signature Theatre's season devoted to his plays, confirms this aphorism by returning to subject matter and theme articulated in the playwright's earliest work.
		This is Wilson's essential theme and, for the most part, he expresses it skillfully.The characters are distinctive and memorable, and, if the plot perhaps takes a bit too long to really get going, it is, when it does, compelling.
		Wilson avoids the pitfall of most liberal writers and does not caricature and hence underestimate the representatives of Christian conservatism.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/BookofDays.htm (1144 words)

	Lanford Wilson
		Wilson goes Salinger one better, perhaps, by setting three plays - Talley's Folly, Talley and Son, and A Tale Told on the same night, July 4, 1944, in different parts of the Talley estate.
		It didn't matter whether Wilson was creating a quiet or noisy moment: he could conjure the mood in a line or two or even in just a pause.
		This book explores that collaboration fully, through interviews with Wilson, Mason and members of the "Circle Rep." Drafts of scripts, and reviews and articles on the plays and the men, reveal the "lyric realism" that both Wilson and Mason say underlies their work.
	www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/WilsonLanford.htm (622 words)

	Lanford Wilson, author of FIFTH OF JULY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Wilson is the author of 17 full length and over 30 short plays.
		Wilson is a founding member of the Circle Repertory Company in New York and one of twenty-one resident playwrights for the company.
		Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Talley's Folly.
	www.neiu.edu /~stagectr/FifthJul/LanfordWilson.htm (158 words)

	Lanford Wilson Biography
		Lanford Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on April 13, 1937.
		Wilson attended Southwest Missouri State College from 1955 to 1956 and San Diego State College from 1956 to 1957; he planned on being an artist, although he had done some acting in high school.
		When he was nineteen, Wilson moved to Chicago, where he was employed as an illustrator at an advertising agency.
	www.enotes.com /burn-this/33691 (164 words)

	Online NewsHour: Ozark Roots -- October 7, 1999
		LANFORD WILSON: It was the genesis of every fl box theater, every second- stage theater that is in all of the regional theaters.
		Among its hits was Lanford Wilson's "Talley" trilogy, including "The Fifth of July," seen here in a television adaptation about a gay veteran whose legs were blown off in Vietnam.
		SPENCER MICHELS: Wilson is angry that much of the idealism of that period is gone, though he acknowledges the hedonism of the era.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/ozark_10-7.html (1602 words)

	The Mound Builders Study Guide by Lanford Wilson: Introduction
		Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders was first produced on February 2, 1975, in New York City at the Circle Repertory Company.
		It was directed by Wilson's long-time collaborator and cofounder of the "Circle Rep," Marshall W. Mason.
		Wilson revised the play for a Circle Rep revival in 1986, deleting the character of Kirsten, August's daughter, but reviewers were still lukewarm.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-moundbuilders/intro.html (291 words)

	2005 Season: Lanford Wilson - Eclipse Theatre Chicago
		Eclipse Theatre Company of Chicago is proud to announce Legendary American writer Lanford Wilson as the featured playwright of the 2005 season.
		Lanford Wilson began writing plays in the early 1960s and has written many memorable ones including Talley's Folly, Balm in Gilead, Burn This, and Fifth of July.
		The company's first major success was Wilson's "Hot L Baltimore" (1973), the story of a group of drifters, prostitutes, and aging residents in an old, run-down hotel.
	www.eclipsetheatre.com /season/2005 (490 words)

	Portland State \| Events \| Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lanford Wilson and Members of Original Circle Repertory ...
		Lanford Wilson, a master of realistic dialogue, has often been compared to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and even Anton Chekov in his ability to portray the humor and pathos of everyday life.
		In 1969, Wilson co-founded the Circle Repertory Theatre-better known as "Circle Rep"-in Greenwich Village with Marshall Mason, and many of his plays were written specifically with the Company's actors in mind, including Conchata Ferrell, Judd Hirsch, and Zane Lasky.
		Wilson is one of the few artists in our theatre who can truly make America sing.
	www.pdx.edu /events/9632 (292 words)

	Lanford Wilson's "Los Alamos" at ASU-4/29/99 to 5/1/99
		The splitting of the atom and Native American's have been a Wilson interest in some of his scripts, including Angels Fall, and these themes are here in full force, with the history of the creation of the bomb and descriptions of Navajo culture mixed together to form an interesting historical observation.
		Wilson has brought back from the shelf, where it has been tinkered with, on and off, for over twenty years.
		Wilson's work, enjoying the historical significance of the situation should be enough to keep away the disappointment at the many missing elements of this first-draft.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /LosAlamos_ASU.html (573 words)

	Inge Festival - Retrospective - Terrence McNally
		Playwright Lanford Wilson, born in Lebanon, Missouri in 1937, is a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements.
		Wilson is a founder (with Tanya Berezin, Rob Thirkield and Marshall W. Mason) Company in New York City and was a resident playwright there from 1969-1995.
		He was in Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore and Balm in Gilead, and in Not Enough Rope directed by Judd Hirsch.
	www.ingefestival.org /ingefestival/retro/lanford_wilson.htm (4149 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - Lanford Wilson to give talk at Alley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson will discuss his craft with theater professionals and answer questions from the audience at "A Conversation With Lanford Wilson," at 7:30 p.m.
		The free event is presented by the University of Houston School of Theatre, where Wilson is in his second semester supervising the Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop.
		Albee founded the UH playwriting workshop and ran it himself for more than a decade, but beginning last spring, has been unable to participate because of illness in the family.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2005/hc/200503/20050322lanfordwilson.html (117 words)

	Lanford Wilson
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		And the sheets and the sidewalks were of lanford wilson value then; but lanford wilson kept his hands rather peacefully, the banker.
		He was tall, of lanford wilson state of the set determination of one shade of blue porcelain alone, belave me, Mr.
	www.vxaz.com /91/lanford-wilson.html (448 words)

	Arts & Leisure: A Persistence of Vision (Tucson Weekly . 08-02-99)
		Wilson invited Mason to read his latest play, a massive work with 56 characters and a radical technique of simultaneous multiple scenes with overlapping dialogue.
		It should be: the FORK in the river.' Lanford smiled at me and showed me his yellow pad, which had 'Fork' written on it.
		When I went back to see it in the revival two or three months later, he had rewritten the play and put the incest in the first couple of lines, so you knew right away that they were brother and sister.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/08-02-99/tw_review.html (2088 words)

	RC - ManchesterJournal
		Nevertheless, Lanford Wilson wrote “Redwood Curtain” with ambitious theatrical imagination far beyond the limits of the small screen.
		Onstage where Wilson intended it to be, “Redwood Curtain” at DTF genuinely magnifies the playwright’s vision.
		The medium of theatre Lanford Wilson uses in “Redwood Curtain” relies not only on performers, dialogue, and action, but also on the somewhat magical setting in which the characters find themselves: the pre-historic redwood forest of the Pacific Coast.
	www.gbrevoort.com /RCManchesterJournal.htm (558 words)

	village voice > theater > Book of Days by Lanford Wilson; Son of Drakula by David Drake; Hollywood Arms by Carrie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		That, says Wilson, is what has become of the mythical American small town; that is what has become of us.
		One of the chief virtues Wilson gives her is self-doubt: Quoting Shaw's Joan to a Christian hypocrite, she says, "Your counsel is of the Devil," but doesn't add, "and mine is of God."
		The easy flow of Wilson's complex storytelling, with its smooth shifts from close-up to panoramic vista, owes much to the equally at-ease staging by his longtime artistic partner, Marshall W. Mason.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0245,feingold,39676,11.html (1612 words)

	Playbill Features: PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Lanford Wilson
		Playwright Lanford Wilson, author of Burn This, Balm in Gilead and The Hot L Baltimore, is perhaps best known for his cycle of plays revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, MO — his former stomping grounds.
		The latter is scheduled to be staged in the current all-Wilson season of Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre.
		Lanford Wilson: He tells me — although I didn't remember saying it — the first thing I said was, "Well, it's about damn time." He was telling people that yesterday and I don't remember it, but if he says I said it, I probably did.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/76855.html (2127 words)

	Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, MA
		Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, MA This site was designed to be viewed in a browser that supports
		Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly now playing at the Berkshire Theatre Festival is billed as a romantic comedy, and both romance and comedy are dynamically present.
		The play is set in rural Missouri in an old dilapidated boat-house, once a big, elegant, ornate gazebo, built irrationally by a long-dead Talley ancestor.
	www.newberkshire.com /reviews/03/btf-tf.html (665 words)

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