Pay The Writer **
By: David Sheward August 29, 2023: Playwright Tawni O'Dell uses the same gag twice in her new play Pay the Writer at the Signature Center (the play is not a production of the Signature Theater Company, but is renting the space). African-American literary lion Cyrus Holt (a robust Ron Canada) twice stops himself after uttering an eloquent observation on life, says "That's good" and rushes to jot it down in a note b…