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20 Best Playwrights of the '80s

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Which scribe ruled the decade?

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Sam Shepard Report Abuse
True West, Fool for Love (both Finalists for the Pulitzer)
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August Wilson Report Abuse
Fences (Tony, Pulitzer), Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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Caryl Churchill Report Abuse
Three Obie Awards in the 1980s.
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David Mamet Report Abuse
Glengarry Glen Ross (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Speed-the-Plow, Edmond
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Tom Stoppard Report Abuse
The Real Thing
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Noises Off!
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Drinking in America, Talk Radio
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Lanford Wilson Report Abuse
Talley's Folly, Burn This
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M. Butterfly, FOB
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All in the Timing
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Lee Blessing Report Abuse
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Crimes of the Heart
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Beyond Therapy, The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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William M. Hoffman Report Abuse
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'night Mother (Pulitzer Prize, 1983)
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Harvey Fierstein Report Abuse
Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage Aux Folles
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