"A house on the edge of an American City" . "The Watering Place"@en . "0012Z"^^ . . "The Watering Place is a play written by Lyle Kessler. His first full length, it debuted on Broadway, starring Shirley Knight and William DevaneMichael Langham, the initial director of the play, and future director at Juilliard, came to its producer Eugene Persson, and begged him to let him direct it."@en .