Visitors can find the hottest New York Broadway tickets here, to help make your time in the Big Apple something you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Broadway is one of the landmarks of culture in the United States, with a long tradition of entertainment that is dazzling and thought-provoking. So much of contemporary culture is expressed thematically in Broadway shows, that at times it is a predictor of the future, a gaze backwards at the past, and other times a mirror of the present. The Broadway musical, one of the truly unique forms developed in the U.S., is one of the most eclectic and varied performance forms in the modern world. The language-based plays can cover an enormously wide variety of subject matters, themes, and even styles.
Interestingly, the work of Lanford Wilson often covers a wide range of styles and themes in a single play, and he is one of the most celebrated writers in the North American theatre. His background is fascinating, having been raised in the Ozarks, where he sensed at a young age that the calm exterior of the modern world revealed dark and troubling truths. When he was still a fairly young teenage, he moved to New York, and found himself in the middle of a cultural storm. In the early to mid-sixties, New York was the perfect home for young and struggling artists. Vibrant and interesting, and in those days also fairly cheap, there were many places where artists could meet and make new work. One of the most celebrated hotspots in that time was Caffe Cino, where Joe Cino would host some of the most brave and interesting theatre work in the world at that time.
Lanford Wilson met his future director there, Marshall Mason, who helped him develop some of his more experimental works. They formed Circle Rep with Tanya Berezin in the late sixties, which became one of the nation’s most active companies performing new work by new writers. Wilson and Mason went on to develop many new projects together, and have worked on an impressive number of works on their own. Lanford Wilson has had a number of highly successful Broadway plays, including Talley’s Folley and The Fifth of July, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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