Located in New York City, Playwrights Horizons is a major off-broadway theater dedicated to the development and production of new work by American playwrights. Founded in 1971 by Robert Moss, it has grown into a major New York theatre institution, producing original work by Alfred Uhry, Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, William Finn, Adam Guettel, Doug Wright, Kenneth Lonergan, and Wendy Wasserstein.
PlaywrightsHorizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.
PlaywrightsHorizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theater Row.
PlaywrightsHorizons' auxiliary programs include the PlaywrightsHorizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the off-Broadway performing arts community.
Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw was born on this date in 1856.
The term 'playwright' appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson (see his Epigram 49, 'To Playwright[1]') as an insult, to imply an inferior hack-writer for the theatre.
The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are Ancient Greeks with some of the earliest plays being written around the 5th century BC.
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