Barrie Stavis

Barrie Stavis
Born (1906-06-16)June 16, 1906
Died February 2, 2007(2007-02-02) (aged 100)
Occupation playwright

Barrie Stavis (June 16, 1906 February 2, 2007) was an American playwright.[1] He has authored several powerful plays about men struggling in the vortex of history. They advocate ideas, suffer, often are executed, but eventually their ideas win. The heresy of one age becomes the established truth of the next. His subjects include scientist Galileo, abolitionist John Brown, and labor leader Joe Hill. His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966. Melvyn Douglas starred as Galileo.

Stavis's plays can be done on a clean, simple stage. They have been translated into 28 languages and have been produced in dozens of major theaters around the world and in numerous college theaters.

Stavis was actively still actively in his work until his death on February 2, 2007, at the age of 100.

Major Plays

Honors

References

  1. "Paid Notice: Deaths Stavis, Barrie.". The New York Times. July 10, 2007.

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