Playwright Lanford Wilson, a Pulitzer Winner for ‘Talley’s Folly,’ Has Died

[The Straight Story]

Playwright Lanford Wilson, a Pulitzer Winner for ‘Talley’s Folly,’ Has Died
By NEW YORK TIMES

Lanford Wilson, a Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright best known for “The Hot L Baltimore,” “Fifth of July,” and “Talley’s Folly,” died Wednesday morning of complications from pneumonia at the Kindred St. Joseph Hospital in Wayne, N.J. according to Marshall Mason, a friend and frequent collaborator. Mr. Wilson was 73 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

With Mr. Mason and Tanya Berezin, Mr. Wilson co-founded the Circle Repertory Company, which during the 1970s and ’80s was a mainstay of Off Broadway. Among Mr. Wilson’s plays to begin there was “Talley’s Folly,” which won the Pulitzer for drama in 1980 and had a considerable Broadway run.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/playwright-lanford-wilson-a-pulitzer-winner-for-talleys-folly-has-died/?pagewanted=print&pagemode=print

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Oh that is sad to hear. A genius.

I saw an early performance of Talley's Folly at Circle Rep at which the audience barely outnumbered the cast, and it is a two person play. It was one of the best things I have ever seen, the play fresh and full, a thing for standard making, a brass ring, a sweet young night.
What a fucking great writer this man was.

[yellerpup]

3. I saw that production, too.

Felt the same way. We'll miss him.

[Kurovski]

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