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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.
Laurents’s book is lean and muscular, moving the story at high speed while working several clever improvements on the Romeo and Juliet plot.
Jul 31, 2009 · Looked at in aggregate, Laurents's life has an improbable Forrest Gump air of having encompassed great swaths of history and the famous figures within it. As a young soldier in the second world...
Laurents helped to shape the planned “East Side Story”, a modern Romeo and Juliet adaptation into the vital and gritty story of two rival street gangs jockeying for turf rights, while Tony and Maria fall blissfully in love.
May 6, 2011 · Mr. Laurents was fairly well established as a playwright — having scored critical plaudits with his 1945 Broadway debut, Home of the Brave, and a popular success with the 1952 Shirley Booth...
May 5, 2011 · Arthur Laurents. “Emotions precede thought, emotions determine thought; plays are emotions.”. This was the guiding principle of American playwright, screenwriter, and stage director Arthur Laurents ( b. Brooklyn, NY, 14 July 1917; d. New York, NY, 5 May 2011 ), whose remarkable career spanned seven decades.
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Apr 16, 2021 · When Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim got their hands on Romeo and Juliet, they improved on Shakespeare so much that I have never been able to view the play without...
