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Howard Korder is an American screenwriter and playwright. He is the author of the 1988 coming-of-age play Boys' Life, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination. His play Search and Destroy was adapted into a film in 1995.
What is his motivation for infidelity? A desire to “see if he could get away with it.” Classy. In totality, Howard Korder’s play is an utterly disenchanting case study of three young, college-educated, white males in the late 1980s and one can only hope that these three men are not actually representative of their peers.***
By the end, when Korder briefly introduces Jack's wife, Carla (Jackie Schell), at the wedding of Don and Lisa, we are left feeling stood up at the theatrical altar.
Mar 1, 1988 · When we are belatedly introduced to Jack's much-belittled wife (Theo Cohan) in the evening's waning moments, it takes only a few lines for Mr. Korder to establish a sympathetic character who ...
Feb 4, 2015 · Jeff Kongs plays Jack, the king womanizer -- and, ironically, the sole married man among these post-collegiate sad sacks, whose raw need -- and scathing contempt -- for women is both telling...
Feb 4, 2015 · BOYS' LIFE is Howard Korder’s Pulitzer Prize nominated 1980s comedy about the misadventures of three New York City post-college buddies as they haplessly navigate friendship, life, and the women in their lives.
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Boys’ Life is an American play written by Howard Korder and first produced by the Atlantic Theater Company in 1988. It was picked up as a last minute replacement of a play in the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center's season, receiving strongly positive reviews, an extended run, and a Pulitzer Prize for Korder.
