After the burst of brilliant flame-edged plays rising from Missouri in the mid-20th century, courtesy of one Tennessee Williams, another playwright’s radiance suffused the streets of Off-Off-Broadway in the 1960s and ’70s. Lanford Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winner and southwest Missouri native, was responsible for that melancholic glow: His plays, not unlike Williams’, depicted raw and romanced characters, ordinary and sometimes larger-than-life, curiously wounded and working toward redemption. Often, they failed.
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