CLEARLY 2000 is a banner year for Arthur Laurents, the distinguished 82-year-old playwright, director and screenwriter.

More controversial, however, is the task force's proposal to rename the theater and broaden its scope to include such distinguished American playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, who lived in Connecticut.

The "James Dean" screenplay was written by Israel Horovitz, a distinguished playwright whose movie work includes, most recently, the elegant "Sunshine."

So perfect did the Guardian reviewer consider the first series to be, that he imagined the distinguished playwright Samuel Beckett endorsing it above all subsequent series of the show.

Barrie Stavis (June 16, 1906 - February 2, 2007) was a distinguished American playwright.

In its Mentor Project a young playwright, or fellow, is paired with a distinguished playwright who acts as a mentor and guides the fellow's work from the first draft to final production.

We shall see presently that the distinguished playwright, Dion Boucicault, good-naturedly complimented it as being better than "Ahi Sin."

External and internal evidence strongly suggests that the true author was the more distinguished Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton.

The speakers were five of the most distinguished playwrights in the English-speaking world.

He was also a distinguished playwright.