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Article: Theatre: Many hands make Leight work New Yorker Warren Leight struggled to get a play produced on or even off-Broadway. At least that was until he wrote the hit jazz play Side Man. Can he repeat the trick on this side of the Atlantic?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2000
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When Side Man won the Tony Award for Best Play last June, it was
virtually the only American play of the 1998-99 Broadway season.
Indeed, its competition for the top prize will sound strangely
familiar on this side of the Atlantic, from Patrick Marber's Closer
(the insider's dark- horse favourite) to Trevor Nunn's National
Theatre co-production of Tennessee Williams's newly-discovered Not
About Nightingales to Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West, which
scarcely lasted a month in New York.
When Side Man won, many saw it as a chauvinistic victory - the
same kind of America-feting-itself triumph that saw Terrence McNally
in two consecutive years trump such competition as Arcadia and Racing ...