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Howe, Tina was born on November 21, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Quincy and Mary (Post) Howe.
(Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced...)
Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other stories that they forget to actually be parents. "A stunning theatrical experience that explores the magic and madness in family dynamics." - Main Line Times "An antic farce and a poignant drama ... that is laugh out loud funny and disturbingly sober.... It's a pearl." Metropolitan D.C. Times. "One of Tina Howe's significant works.... Will be remembered as the high point of Philadelphia's annual Theatre Week." TheatreWeek.
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(Comic drama Characters: 1 male, 2 female Interior Set ...)
Comic drama Characters: 1 male, 2 female Interior Set Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless. "Beautifully written. . . . A theatrical family portrait that has the shimmer and depth of Renoir portraits." N.Y. Times "A radiant, loving and zestfully humorous play . . . distinctly Chekhovian. Howe captures the same edgy surface of false hilarity, the same unutterable sadness beneath it, and the indomitable valor beneath both." Time
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( “Birth and After Birth is as appalling as it is percept...)
“Birth and After Birth is as appalling as it is perceptive…one of the more primal works by this woman who describes herself as a ‘well-mannered anarchist.’”—Newsday A revised edition of Howe’s early farce Birth and After Birth, about overweening parents and their four-year-old child. Also included are Approaching Zanzibar, a comedy about mortality, and the “rich, gorgeous and compelling” (New York Post) domestic drama One Shoe Off. Tina Howe was born and lives in New York City. Major honors include an Outer Critics Circle Award, an OBIE Award for Distinguished Playwriting, and a Tony Award nomination for her play Coastal Disturbances.
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(This compelling comedy about marriage, fidelity, adultero...)
This compelling comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic, and the theatre takes place in Leonard and Dinah's up-state New York Greek revival farmhouse where slow-moving disintegration is at work. Rooms are drifting into each other, and trees have taken root indoors. Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. They have invited their new neighbors, an overworked editor and his movie starlet wife, for dinner. Things explode when Parker Bliss, an old friend of the hosts' and a successful movie director, drops in. Old memories stir and new passions kindle as vegetables and Dinah's costumes fly. Casting requires three males, two females, and the set calls for one interior. Appropriate for little theatre groups, this "high comedy" from the inventive mind of Tina Howe covers love, art, acting, survival, nursery tales, and ghost stories. This Samuel French softcover "acting" edition (90 pages) also has notes from Ms. Howe about the set, props, and costumes.
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Howe, Tina was born on November 21, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Quincy and Mary (Post) Howe.
Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1959. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Whittier College, 1997.
Adjunct Professor playwriting, New York University, since 1983; visiting professor, Hunter College, New York City, since 1990.
(This compelling comedy about marriage, fidelity, adultero...)
(Comic drama Characters: 1 male, 2 female Interior Set ...)
( “Birth and After Birth is as appalling as it is percept...)
( The latest work by the award-winning author of Coastal ...)
( Includes: Coastal Disturbances, Painting Churches. The ...)
(Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced...)
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Fellow Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Writers Guild American. Member Dramatists Guild (county member since 1990).
Married Norman L. Levy, August 31, 1961. Children: Eben, Dara.