American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards Honor Playwrights
Playwrights Lynn Nottage, Ayad Akhtar, and Dominique Morisseau will receive cash prizes.
All Stories About Lynn Nottage
The Play Makers: How New American Writing Makes It to Broadway
Is drama dying on the Main Stem? Not if these writers (and some enterprising nonprofits) can help it.
What’s in a Broadway Debut? 5 Playwrights Dialogue
Joshua Harmon, Lucas Hnath, Lynn Nottage, JT Rogers, and Paula Vogel compare notes.
Offscript: Electoral Angst With Lynn Nottage
On this week’s podcast, Lynn Nottage discusses the presidential election and her new play ‘Sweat.’ Plus the editors discuss ‘Hamilton’s America’ and ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.’
Is This Any Time for Nuanced Politics?
Even in a polarized age, the best dramatists are drawn to complications, not simple answers, as Richard Nelson’s Chekhovian plays prove.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2016 Literature Award Winners
Among the winners in the field of drama are Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Lynn Nottage, who will each receive $10,000 to $20,000.
Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ Receives 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright receives a $25,000 award for her play about America’s industrial decline.
Bill Rauch: Oregon Shakes’s ‘And’ Man
The theatre’s idealistic leader isn’t resting on its considerable laurels but pushing it to be more, and do more, all the time.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Dorset Theatre Festival’s Summer Ranges from ‘Stinky Cheese Man’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’
Also on tap at the Vermont theatre are regional premieres of ‘Outside Mullingar’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily.’
