Example sentences for: playwrights

How can you use “playwrights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Why don't American screenwriters own the copyrights to their scripts, as playwrights do, and as (I'm told) screenwriters in Europe do?

  • Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.

  • Though the theater relented when Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, and other top playwrights howled, most critics still paint the incident as a free-speech outrage.

  • When the National Theatre staged his first full-length stage play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , in 1967 (he had previously done radio pieces for the BBC), he joined the fashionable ranks of such English playwrights as Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter.

  • It’s known for showcasing important new Irish playwrights.


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