Broadway stars Johanna Day, Mark Blum, Laila Robins, Phyllis Somerville, Jere Burns, Anika Noni Rose, Matthew Mabe, Daisy Eagan and film star Matthew Lillard will appear in the new works presented at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2005 Playwrights Conference.

Costa-Gavras has prodded audiences’ consciences with powerful, unblinking political tales — parables, really — since the release of "Z" in 1969.

Costa-Gavras has prodded audiences’ consciences with powerful, unblinking political tales — parables, really — since the release of "Z" in 1969. So this soft-spoken director was a natural choice to adapt and direct Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play The Deputy, a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church’s failure to respond to Nazi atrocities during World War II. The result, "Amen," opened Jan. 24 in New York and Los Angeles.