Playwright Movies

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to the attention of legions of fans across the...

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated...

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja...

In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them.

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that...

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his...

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...

A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife...

A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit...

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is...

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his...

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother.

Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the...

Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the...