20 Best Playwrights of the '80s
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Which scribe ruled the decade?
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1.
Sam Shepard
True West, Fool for Love (both Finalists for the Pulitzer)
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2.
August Wilson
Fences (Tony, Pulitzer), Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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3.
Caryl Churchill
Three Obie Awards in the 1980s.
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David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Speed-the-Plow, Edmond
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Tom Stoppard
The Real Thing
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6.
Wallace Shawn
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7.
Neil Simon
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8.
Wendy Wasserstein
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9.
Michael Frayn
Noises Off!
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10.
Eric Bogosian
Drinking in America, Talk Radio
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Lanford Wilson
Talley's Folly, Burn This
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12.
David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly, FOB
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13.
David Ives
All in the Timing
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14.
Charles Mee
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15.
Lee Blessing
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16.
Beth Henley
Crimes of the Heart
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Christopher Durang
Beyond Therapy, The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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18.
William M. Hoffman
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19.
Marsha Norman
'night Mother (Pulitzer Prize, 1983)
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20.
Harvey Fierstein
Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage Aux Folles
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