The playwright Robert Schenkkan spent three years writing “The Kentucky Cycle,” the series of nine one-acts that won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1992. He spent 21 months on a first draft of “All the Way,” which won him the Tony Award for best new play in 2014.

“Building the Wall,” a disquieting response to the dawn of the Trump era, took him just one week to complete. He wrote it, he said, in a “white-hot fury.” To read more, click here.