Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner and Neil LaBute may not be the first guys you would expect to encounter cruising down Santa Monica Boulevard en route to a power lunch at The Ivy. For all their differences, each has carved out a reputation for telling stories and exploring themes in ways that can challenge even the standards of mainstream commercial theater, let alone those we associate with big-budget movies.
Yet like Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, David Mamet and others, they have opted to moonlight in the film industry. And movie executives, aware of their cachet among actors and directors, not to mention critics, have been happy to accommodate them.
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