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August Wilson Kenneth Lonergan Urinetown The Guys
August Wilson
August Wilson is America's pre-eminent African-American playwright. The two-time Pulitzer and Tony award-winning author has completed seven of ten plays -- one for each decade -- that chronicle the African-American experience in the 20th Century.

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Kenneth Lonergan
Playwright Kenneth Lonergan has a talent for capturing the way people really speak. His heroes, tend to be confused and not completely in touch with their feelings, include disaffected youth, crooked cops, lost souls, and security guards who sleep on the job.

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Urinetown
When you gotta go, you gotta go -- to Broadway! Believe it or not, the latest new musical to take its place alongside "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast" is about a town where you have to pay to pee.

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The Guys
It's not every day that first-time playwrights get their plays staged in New York City. It's not every day that Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray jump at the chance to be in them. But then again, Anne Nelson's "The Guys" isn't your average play.

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