This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In 1967 David Rabe returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam and began to write. Five years later, his second play, Sticks and Bones, won the Tony award for Best ...

Madness is red meat for playwrights. In the disjointed ravings of Ophelia, Lear, and Edgar-as-Poor-Tom, Shakespeare gives himself permission to go avant-garde amid the iambs. Tennessee Williams built ...

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David Rabe is the critically acclaimed author of the novels "Dinosaurs on the Roof" and "Recital of the Dog," as well as the short story collection, "A Primitive Heart." He has also written several ...

For its production of David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, Roundfish Theatre Company has taken over an art gallery set in the middle of a desolate Denver block, with painted brick walls, odd found objects ...

One depressing measure of America’s predicament after a decade of war in Iraq is that our heritage of Vietnam plays now feels freshly resonant. After many years on the shelf, David Rabe’s Sticks and ...

Rabe, widely known for his Vietnam plays (Sticks and Bones; etc.), delivers his first Vietnam novel, a competent addition to a very busy subgenre. Pfc. Joseph Whitaker is a draftee from Platteville, ...