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Jan 15, 2011 · In a 1989 interview he was asked if it troubled him that he had never become a playwright with the name recognition or the New York cachet of, say, David Mamet or Sam Shepard.
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV [1] (September 21, 1930 – January 15, 2011) [2] was an American playwright and novelist. Life and career. Linney was born in Philadelphia, [3] the son of Maitland ( née Thompson) Linney and physician Romulus Zachariah Linney III.
Sep 24, 2000 · FOR the playwright Romulus Linney, ''A Lesson Before Dying,'' his adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines's award-winning novel, is not just about racism. Set in Louisiana in 1948, the play tells the...
Apr 7, 2011 · Stageworks is performing Linney's A Lesson Before Dying, adapted from a 1992 novel by Ernest J. Gaines about an African-American on death row, wrongly convicted of a murder he did not commit,...
Feb 22, 2010 · By JERRY TALLMER. In the fall of 1988, Crystal Field, the dynamo at the center of First Avenue’s Theater for the New City, begged me to come see a play there called “Heathen Valley” by a writer...
Jan 16, 2011 · Romulus Linney, a prolific playwright whose work included stories set in Appalachia and the Nuremberg trials, has died in New York. He was 80.
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Jan 16, 2011 · January 16, 2011. Romulus Linney, a respected playwright who wrote dozens of plays on a wide variety of subjects over a multi-decade career, and who achieved a different sort of fame in later...
