Transcript: Profile: Inspiration behind Warren Leight's play "No Foreigners Beyond This Point," which examines China following the Cultural Revolution

Article: WARREN LEIGHT'S POWERFUL, UNSETTLING SIDE MAN AT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 2, 2006 ;     491 words ... ... release: The Brooklyn College Theater Department presents Warren Leight's moving stage memoir of a '40s jazz musician, Side Man ... later, sidemen like that were unknown." In Side Man, Warren Leight pays tribute to his father and his father's contemporaries ...

Article: Theatre: Many hands make Leight work New Yorker Warren ...
The Independent - London;  February 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... competition as Arcadia and Racing Demon with his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class. The writer of Side Man, Warren Leight, raises another possibility: what if his play was, in fact, the best on offer? "I will tell you quite honestly, I ...

Article: WGAE lauds former prez.(Writers Guild of America, East honors ...
Daily Variety;  January 10, 2006 ;     594 words ...The Writers Guild of America East has tapped former president Warren Leight to receive its Richard B. Jablow Award lor service to the guild. Nod will be presented at the Feb. 4 awards ceremony at the ...

Article: East noms prez pair: Albers, Wesley to run for Leight's ...
Daily Variety;  June 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... tapped as the nominees for a two-year term as president of the Writers Guild of America East. The winner will succeed Warren Leight, who became president last month after Herb Sargent's death. Wesley was appointed as VP to fill Leight's vacancy ...

Article: Stating the melody.(interview with 'Side Man' playwright ...
American Theatre;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...An interview with the playwright by Stephanie Coen Side Man is a play about musicians, and its structure reflects a very musical sensibility - the play loops about in time like jazz riffs. There's a sense of a jazz riff that I wanted all the way through. I didn't want to be hemmed in by chronology,

Article: No Foreigners Beyond This Point.(Ma-Yi Theater Company ...
Daily Variety;  September 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... of a play in two acts by Warren Leight. Directed and designed ... following the arid decade of the Cultural Revolution, Warren Leight's play tracks the amusing ... the decade of the infamous Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong, when ...

Article: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS
The China Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS Jonathan Unger* The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited by Joseph Esherick ... since Mao's death, research about the Cultural Revolution turmoil of 1966-68 and about the 1970s ...