New York Drama Critics’ Circle Announces Best Play 2017-2018
The Drama Critics’ Circle has named ‘Mary Jane’ by Amy Herzog best play of the 2017-18 season.
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The Drama Critics’ Circle has named ‘Mary Jane’ by Amy Herzog best play of the 2017-18 season.
The comedy focused theatre will tackle rock ‘n’ roll and funny ladies in history next season.
The Off-Off-Broadway institution will receive $25,000 as part of the prize.
She will leave the agency in June, at the conclusion of her four-year term.
Each writer will receive a cash prize and have a play developed at the Bay Area company.
The Playwrights’ Center will support the development of new works by Idris Goodwin, May Lee-Yang, and Tori Sampson.
The season offers seven productions, including a musical.
The season will feature two new plays in repertory from Idaho native Samuel D. Hunter and a world premiere by Dwayne Blackaller and Matthew Cameron Clark.
The season will feature the first commission for the company’s Problem Play Project, an adaptation of ‘The WInter’s Tale’ by Carlos-Zenen Trujillo.
New musicals slated for the summer season include one by Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman, and one by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, and Jessie Nelson.