Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), an American playwright noted for his verse dramas, tried to show men living by their beliefs even in a world where evil tends to dominate. Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pa., on Dec. 15, 1888. Since his father, Willi...

A teacher, journalist, and poet, Maxwell Anderson brought to the theater of the twentieth century an awareness of contemporary events as well as a poet's depth of feeling and sense of language. Though skilled in writing for the theater of realism, he bel...

Maxwell Anderson was among the generation of playwrights who changed the world's perception of American drama. Before World War I the usual impression in this country and abroad was that important and exciting theatrical centers were all in Europe, but a...

Man came to the house and gave me $800. "What is this for?" "It's your federal tax cut, compliments of President Clinton." "I didn't know I was entitled to one." "Everyone in the middle class is entitled to one. We...

In Wallace Shawn's one-person play, The Fever, Clare Coulter talks of finding herself drawn towards a beautiful beggar in a poor country. There's money in her purse; she could give the beggar some of it. "And a voice says, 'Why not all of it?...