Published in KPBS On Air Magazine February 1998 He’s been compared to Anton Chekhov because, he says,” we both seem to be obsessed with dying cultures and obsolete values trying to survive.” Chekhov focused on the fading Russian aristocracy; A.R. Gurney sets his playwriting sights on that disappearing cadre of economically privileged but emotionally disadvantaged Northeast Americans best known by their entomological acronym, WASP. Read More →