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Rudin, of course, is no stranger to controversy or hard feelings, and the play’s less-than-happy ending might have dampened word-of-mouth, but the playwright, the cast and the director deserved a heartier Broadway embrace.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
The film also incorporates and is partly inspired by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s unfinished novel of the same title, his first work with an explicitly gay protagonist.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
His vocation may vary—movie star (in Jay Kelly), art-house director (Sentimental Value), blockbuster Tudor playwright (Hamnet)—but his problem tends to be the same.
—Susie Goldsbrough, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2025
Few British playwrights have been compared to Shakespeare, but Tom Stoppard was.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
The film also incorporates and is partly inspired by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s unfinished novel of the same title, his first work with an explicitly gay protagonist.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
His vocation may vary—movie star (in Jay Kelly), art-house director (Sentimental Value), blockbuster Tudor playwright (Hamnet)—but his problem tends to be the same.
—Susie Goldsbrough, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2025
Few British playwrights have been compared to Shakespeare, but Tom Stoppard was.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 2 Jan. 2026.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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