She contributed to the American theater in a lot of other ways than being a gifted playwright.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition.

Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name. He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.

Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.

[Rauch, along with his partner Christopher Liam Moore, will be leaving Cornerstone in March.] I realized that because of the opportunities at Yale and elsewhere ... I wanted to do other kinds of work. It was a painful decision, because I'll never find another artistic home as supportive as that one.