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Jan. 21, 2011
Sept. 1, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
Wallace Shawn’s “The Designated Mourner,” set in an unnamed totalitarian state, is being revived at REDCAT at a time when American democracy and the rule of law are under siege.
May 13, 2017
Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn has received a career achievement award from PEN, one of several honors announced Monday by the writers organization.
May 10, 2005
Lifestyle
Two early plays show the playwright obsessed with breakdowns in communication and the body.
July 20, 2008
Books
A hundred or so of L.A.’
April 21, 1997
In the film “My Dinner With Andre,” actor-playwright Wallace Shawn argued quite, er--heatedly--with theater director Andre Gregory in support of the qualitative change his electric blanket had brought to his life, despite Andre’s warning that it cut him off from reality.
July 30, 1992
‘Essays’ by Wallace Shawn
Funny, but playwright/actor Wallace Shawn doesn’t look like an angry man.
March 3, 1988
Artists are in the business of simultaneously de-familiarizing and re-familiarizing us with the world around us.