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“There’s something special about being in a nontheatrical environment to create work,” she said via Zoom.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Many future directors, actors, writers, editors, and camerapeople cut their teeth in the flourishing nontheatrical industry.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021

Mr. Calder published much of Beckett’s nontheatrical work — novels, poems and essays — and wrote several books about the Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2018

Mr. Neumann had met Beckett at a museum in East Berlin in 1976, and their ensuing friendship had encouraged the playwright to entrust him and the company with several of his nontheatrical texts.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2012

The two most theatrical people on the U. S. stage are of nontheatrical parentage.

From Time Magazine Archive