Playwrights - October, 2004

Published: Dec. 8, 2006, 6:15 p.m.

At the start of a theatre season which would see revivals of major works by each, authors Edward Albee (Tony winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the 2005 recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), Harvey Fierstein (who won acting Tony Awards for Hairspray and Torch Song Trilogy—for which he also won a Best Play Tony in addition to his best book Tony for La Cage Aux Folles), Paula Vogel (The Baltimore Waltz) and John Weidman (Assassins) discuss the challenges of the career of a playwright.