Lanford Wilson
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Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired widely performed". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater
A scene from the 1986 New York revival of Home Free!
Balm in Gilead
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Balm in Gilead is a 1965 American play written by American playwright Lanford Wilson.
Lanford Wilson
…writing plays for Ellen Stewart's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village. His first full-length plays premiered at La MaMa, including Balm in Gilead, which depicted a doomed romance in an urban greasy spoon diner inhabited by junkies, prostitutes and thieves. Balm in Gilead premiered at La MaMa in…
T. Schreiber Studio's company of Balm in Gilead, with playwright Lanford Wilson (seated center)