The playwright Richard Nelson (who wrote the screenplay to Hyde Park on Hudson) tells Kurt Andersen that one of the biggest challenges facing young playwrights is tinkering by well-meaning producers and others. New and ambitious plays, he argues, aren’t broken. “If you look at Hamlet, there are a lot of big holes. But you don’t try to fix it – it’s a play to be solved.”
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