John Guare has been lauded as one of the most successful American playwrights of the last third of the twentieth century. He has won three Obie (Off-Broadway) Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards, Drama Desk...

John Guare, born in 1938, is of the generation of American playwrights that critics persist in calling "promising" and comparing with Edward Albee. After winning an Obie in the 1967-1968 season for Muzeeka and being named the next season's "most...

FOUR BABOONS ADORING THE SUN Play in one act by John Guare Directed by Jason Southerland. Set, Laura McPherson and Brent Wachter. Lights, Mara N. Fishman. Produced by Boston Theatre Works At: Tremont Theatre, through Nov. 15 When you're the new kid on...

A young woman sidles up from nowhere. "Psst! Do you want the dish on John Guare?" And out of the nearest doorway thunders playwright John Guare like an angry Jove, all six feet or so of him, eyes flashing from behind gold wire-rim...

Charles Mee, one of the village elders of the New York avant-garde scene, is being honored by the Signature Theatre Company with his own season, a richly deserved accolade. The 68-year-old innovator joins an elite group of major American artists—like Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, John...

While New York goes about its modernist business these days, slamming into glassy walls, over on 183-5 West Fourth Street sits a most unusual house. What is this place? There are no Barcelona chairs, no rough pillows with blue and brown squares. Only...

Since his early days, Guare has adhered to the fundamental principle of traditional dramaturgy—the need for a recognizable plot. However unconventional his treatment of the story line, there is an implicit understanding of the basic situation as relevant to some aspect of our lives. Be it the social tragedy of individuals (Muzeeka), or the personalized sufferings of people cast far afield in an alien world (Marco Polo Sings a Solo), Guare's plays situate their themes amidst the shifting realit...

John Guare is still at sea in "Gardenia."… It's hard to accept that the author of this emotionally blocked, almost willfully undramatic work is the man who wrote "The House of Blue Leaves," "Landscape of the Body" and the screenplay for "Atlantic City." Sad to say, it is all too easy to believe that "Gardenia" comes from the playwright who earlier this season unveiled "Lydie Breeze." Mr. Guare's new play...

In the opening shots of John Guare and Louis Malle's remarkable film "Atlantic City," we watch ghostly old beach hotels, the repositories of gilded, early 20th-century American dreams, collapse under the wreckers' ball. "Lydie Breeze," the Guare-Malle theatrical collaboration that opened at the American Place last night, is set in another crumbling beach town of another era—hurricane-gutted Nantucket in 1895—but it is about the same dreams, the same gh...