The playwright's muse / edited by Joan Herrington.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

"Not having it all": Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon woman -- Interview with wendy Wasserstein -- Birth, baptism, and resurrection: August Wilson and the blues -- Interview with August Wilson -- Broadway boundaries: Neil Simon and popular culture -- Interview with Neil Simon -- Lessons from our first frontier -- Interview with Robert Schenkkan -- Kushner's arcades: "the borders are full of holes" -- Interview with Tony Kushner -- "A's" last memory: contextualizing Albee's Three tall women -- Interview with Edward Albee -- Horton Foote: mystic of the American theatre -- Interview with Horton Foote -- Jonathan Larson rocks broadway -- Conversations with Jonathan Larson -- Seducing the audience: politics in the plays of Paula Vogel -- Interview with Paula Vogel -- Margaret Edson: playwright in spite of herself -- Donald Margulies: from Boitschick to man.

The playwright's muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.

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