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Laurents's work in radio and film during World War II was an excellent apprenticeship for a budding playwright and screenwriter. He also had the good fortune to be based in New York City. His first stage play, Home of the Brave , was produced in 1945.
The playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents wrote the books for two true classics of musical theatre, West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959), and directed the hit musical La Cage aux...
May 6, 2011 · It was Mr. Laurents’s notion to begin the show with an almost wordless sequence for the rival gangs — hardly what you’d expect from an established playwright with a solid ego.
Biography for Arthur Laurents the Playwright, Librettist including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.
May 10, 2011 · HAROLD PRINCE, Director Everyone knows that Arthur Laurents was a playwright, screenwriter and wrote two of the best librettos in the history of American musicals. But do they know he was...
May 6, 2011 · An obituary on Friday about the playwright, screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents misstated the year he won the first of his three Tony Awards, for “Hallelujah, Baby!” It was 1968, not...
May 7, 2011 · Eventually, Laurents would strike it big with “The Way We Were” and receive an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for “The Turning Point,” but he was too much a playwright to ever feel ...
