Sentences with phrase «only as a playwright»

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With Doris Kearns Goodwin's Obama - endorsed biography Team Of Rivals as his font, playwright Tony Kushner fashioned a 550 - page script of Lincoln's political life, only for his director to lop off the last 80 pages and narrow his aim.

After graduating high school, he worked on a career as a playwright, only to be advised to be an actor by his professors.

There's only one Martin McDonagh as is proven anew by Seven Psychopaths, the latest from the London - born Irish playwright and erstwhile wunderkind who in recent years has transferred his brand of casual and often comic cruelty to the screen.

Annette Bening deserves a garland of superlatives as Arkadina, the miserly theater diva who is in denial about aging and the insecure playwright son Konstantin (Billy Howle) she only pretends to give a damn about.

When he learns of his assignment — to infiltrate a prison in Malta and rescue a double agent who has critical information about a planned assassination attempt on the Queen — he finds himself overwhelmed with uncertainty, only agreeing to the job after realizing that his training as a playwright has in fact prepared him well for the contretemps and complexity of power - broking:» «What if this were my play?»

The book includes well - known figures like playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse, as well as those only identified by their race and ethnicity, with special attention given to peoples of Latinx, African - American, Arab, and Asian descent.