Monday, April 16, 2012

Playwright News--4.16.12

 
Award-Winning Playwright Comes To QU
The Quad News
Howe is an award-winning playwright, whose works have been nominated for a Tony award, won Drama Critics, Drama Desk and Obie awards and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. While her most famous work is "Painting Churches," Howe's "Coastal ...
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Clarence Coo's Beautiful Province Wins Yale Drama Series Award
Playbill.com
By Adam Hetrick Beautiful Province by playwright Clarence Coo has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series Award. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Guare made the selection, which was announced April 16.
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Playwright Martin Travers on Roman Bridge
The List
A big cast. It might be called Square Go. But the funny thing is plays evolve as they are developed so it might end up being a monologue about cross-stitch and puff pastry. Playwright Martin Travers on new work Roman Bridge.
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Magic Theatre: Scottish playwright Linda McLean's moving 'Any Given Day'
Examiner.com
Although Sadie obviously has severe mental disabilities, her emotional life as written by playwright McLean is wide and deep and Kossow captures every nuance. It is wonderful work. Special mention should be made of Michael Locher's remarkable set ...
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Plays reveal comic genius of playwright
This is Hull and East Riding
The late playwright was famed for the murky worlds he explored, from small-time crooks to families on the verge of disintegration. ENTERTAINERS: John O'Connor as Ben, left, and Nicholas Gasson as Gus in the European Arts Company's production of The ...
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Clarence Coo's Beautiful Province Chosen by John Guare as Winner of 2012 Yale ...
TheaterMania.com
By Dan Bacalzo • Apr 16, 2012 • New Haven Renowned playwright John Guare has selected Clarence Coo as the winner of the 2012 Yale Drama Series for his play, Beautiful Province. This annual international competition, funded by the David Horn Foundation, ...
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TheaterMania.com
BWW Reviews: BLACK BATTLES WITH DOGS, Southwark Playhouse, April 13 2012
Broadway World
Playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès left a disclaimer: "Black Battles with Dogs is not about Africa, it is not about the blacks – I am not an African playwright – it is not about neocolonialism, not about the racial question." He is being deliberately ...
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Yale Drama Winner
New York Times
"Beautiful Province," a new play by Clarence Coo about a 15-year-old boy who travels across Canada with his French high school teacher, is the winner of the 2012 Yale Drama Series award for an emerging playwright, the judge for the series, ...
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Web2 new results for playwright
 
Playwright discusses influence of 'Our Town,' China | Yale Daily News
Theater often symbolizes broader cultural concepts, Chinese-American playwright Alvin Eng said, and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" does so particularly ...
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Q&A: Playwright Amy Herzog on Family History, Political Activism ...
The writer talks to ARTINFO about her complex family background, which significantly informs her work.
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