Sanaz Toossi Wins 2020 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award
The award, presented by Williamstown Theatre Festival, includes a cash prize and a commission to write a new play.
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The award, presented by Williamstown Theatre Festival, includes a cash prize and a commission to write a new play.
In addition to its namesake playwright, the season will feature work by August Wilson, Mike Bartlett, Kate Hamill, and Lee Hall.
The season includes three Philadelphia premieres, all directed by women.
The Minnesota company’s season will feature two world premiere plays.
The season includes world premieres, classics, and two stories of Cincinnati’s history.
Chenoweth will visit her alma mater each semester to teach students in the the Wanda L. Bass School of Music.
The New Dramatists fellow will be honored this summer.
The season will also feature Syracuse’s fourth annual Cold Read Festival of New Plays.
L M Feldman’s ‘Thrive,’ which is in dialgoue with Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night,’ will tour with the ASC’s production of that classic.
Among the new works will be a play by Vichet Chum and adaptations of ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ and a Chekhov classic.