The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, whose alumni include August Wilson, Jeremy O. Harris and Wendy Wasserstein, has given playwrights a place to take a risk for nearly 60 years. The Connecticut campus ...

His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York. By Clay Risen George C. White, whose Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, on an ...