Female playwrights historically have not found Broadway a welcome home to their new plays, but this season has been a surprising exception. Along with a darkly comic one-act from the veteran Elaine May, Katori Hall and Lydia R. Diamond are making their Broadway debuts, and Theresa Rebeck, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has her second Broadway...
Mothers come in for some serious savaging in ''Relatively Speaking,'' a reasonably savory tasting platter of comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen that opened on Thursday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. This will come as no surprise. Nagging, wheedling, needling, needy or demanding moms -- often of the Jewish persuasion, it must...
THE producers of ''Relatively Speaking'' (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct. 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it turns out I have written three one-act plays. I have done this by submitting questions to both men who will presumably answer them in depth. I've interviewed Woody...