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The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
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Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Parks’ play premiered in 2010 at the New York Public Theater and the justly esteemed playwright has updated the work for the Steppenwolf production.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Kiss of the Spider Woman is based on playwright Terrence McNally’s stage musical that debuted on Broadway in 1993 and adapted Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel of the same name.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
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Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Parks’ play premiered in 2010 at the New York Public Theater and the justly esteemed playwright has updated the work for the Steppenwolf production.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Kiss of the Spider Woman is based on playwright Terrence McNally’s stage musical that debuted on Broadway in 1993 and adapted Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel of the same name.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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