Although she insists that her true vocation is teaching kindergarten, Margaret Edson has distinguished herself as a dramatist on the basis of her debut play. Wit, which premiered in Costa Mesa, California, in 1995, won several awards before moving to the...

A list of potential witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Prosecution and defense lawyers are not required to provide lists of their witnesses. These names were drawn from court documents...

With her dying gasp after being shot through the mouth, actress Lana Clarkson may have breathed out blood that spattered on Phil Spector's jacket, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in the music producer's murder trial.But Dr. Werner Spitz said that would not change his opinion...

A victims' rights group released documents Thursday that showed the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.The group, called silentlambs, held a news conference...

Two unidentified witnesses appeared Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating Blackwater Worldwide, a government contractor whose security guards were involved in a shooting that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.National security prosecutors Kenneth Kohl and Stephen Ponticiello, who are handling the Blackwater case, spent...

In the following essay, DeShazer analyzes four plays containing women's cancer as the primary thematic element, contending that performance theater allows for a different examination of feminist explorations of the female body.

In the following essay, Michelson assesses the value and meaning of ‘wit’ in the context of its modern and medieval meanings through his examination of Edson's Wit and, to a lesser extent, John Redford's 1530 drama The Play of Wyt and Science.

In the following essay, Vanhoutte notes that Edson uses cancer as a tool to judge how Vivian has lived her life—a stereotype to which Vanhoutte objects, arguing that such methodology maintains the misguided belief that cancer is in some way a metaphysical punishment for poor life choices.