# Larry Fineberg

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{{Short description|Canadian playwright (born 1945)}}
'''Larry Fineberg''' (born 1945 in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec)) is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) playwright. He is most noted for his 1976 play ''Eve'', an adaptation of [Constance Beresford-Howe](/source/Constance_Beresford-Howe)'s novel ''The Book of Eve'' which won the [Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award](/source/Floyd_S._Chalmers_Canadian_Play_Award).<ref>"Playwrights share award for best play". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', February 1, 1977.</ref>

Originally from the [Côte-Saint-Luc](/source/C%C3%B4te-Saint-Luc) borough of Montreal, Fineberg briefly attended [McGill University](/source/McGill_University)<ref>"Fineberg attacks obsession with past". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', November 15, 1977.</ref> before transferring to [Emerson College](/source/Emerson_College) in [Boston](/source/Boston).<ref name=cte>[http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Fineberg%2C%20Larry "Fineberg, Larry"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 13, 2010.</ref> While there, he was a producer of several theatre productions, including ''[Fiddler on the Roof](/source/Fiddler_on_the_Roof)'' and ''[Cabaret](/source/Cabaret_(musical))'', and worked as an assistant director to [Frank Loesser](/source/Frank_Loesser).<ref name=cte /> He returned to Canada in 1972, and his first play ''Stonehenge Trilogy'' was staged by [Toronto](/source/Toronto)'s [Factory Theatre](/source/Factory_Theatre) that year.<ref name=cte />

His other plays have included ''Death'' (1972),<ref name=cte /> ''Hope'' (1972),<ref name=cte /> ''All the Ghosts'' (1973), ''Lady Celeste's Tea'' (1974), ''Waterfall'' (1974), ''Human Remains'' (1975),<ref name=cte /> ''Fresh Disasters'' (1976), ''Life on Mars'' (1979), ''Montreal'' (1981),<ref name=cte /> ''Devotion'' (1985),<ref name=cte /> ''Failure of Nerve'' (1991), ''Doctor's Liver'' (1992), ''The Final Solution'' (1992) and ''The Clairvoyant'' (2000),<ref>"Strong cast molds new play". ''[Toronto Star](/source/Toronto_Star)'', March 9, 2000.</ref> as well as an adaptation of ''[Medea](/source/Medea_(play))'' which was staged at the [Stratford Festival](/source/Stratford_Festival) in 1978.<ref>"Electric Medea holds the stage". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', July 3, 1978.</ref>

Fineberg was a writer-in-residence at Stratford and [Buddies in Bad Times](/source/Buddies_in_Bad_Times),<ref name=cte /> and a founding member of the [Playwrights Guild of Canada](/source/Playwrights_Guild_of_Canada).<ref name=cte />

Many of Fineberg's plays addressed [gay](/source/gay) themes.<ref name=cte /> Fineberg identified himself as [bisexual](/source/bisexual).<ref>David Booth and Kathleen Gallagher, ''How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars and Advocates''. [University of Toronto Press](/source/University_of_Toronto_Press), 2003. {{ISBN|9780802085566}}. p. 184.</ref>

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