Playwriting stars in the land of midnight sun by Toby Zinman
VALDEZ, Alaska - This little town they call "the back of beyond," where the Alaskan pipeline ends and every restaurant menu offers reindeer sausage, is the last place you'd expect to find American theater's big guns.<br /> But here they were: recent Tony winner Edward Albee, August Wilson, John Guare, Jack Gelber, Lloyd Richards, Joseph Chaikin.