Playwright News--4.19.12

Playwright Wole Soyinka and historian David Blight win Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Plain Dealer The legendary playwright and poet is among four authors elevated as winners of this year's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for work that illuminates race and culture. Nigerian authorities threw Soyinka into solitary confinement for two years, beginning in ... See all stories on this topic » Plain Dealer

Playwright of 'The Brothers Size' will speak before Saturday performance at ... Syracuse.com (blog) The 30-year-old playwright, who will be in the house when Syracuse Stage opens its production Friday, says the experience never grows old. "I always enjoy the investigation. I think the play, in itself, is a testament to the human condition, ... See all stories on this topic » Syracuse.com (blog)

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Will Be Inducted into New York Foundation for the ... Playbill.com By Michael Gioia Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who is currently represented on Broadway with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame April 30 at Espace in Manhattan. See all stories on this topic »

Nostalgic production reflects playwright's childhood Alton Telegraph By JILL MOON ROXANA — Playwright Andy Burnside-Weaver relived his childhood in the process of creating Alton Children's Theater's next production. Burnside-Weaver wrote a comedy about his childhood friend, Dan Hund, set in "Summer 1979," which is the ... See all stories on this topic »

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to speak at Whittier College Whittier Daily News Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz will give a free talk at 6 tonight at Whittier College's Memorial Chapel, 13406 Philadelphia St. (Photo courtesy of Oskar Lantis) WHITTIER - Local theater enthusiasts have the chance to hear one of the ... See all stories on this topic »

TV inspired playwright's first full-length script Omaha World-Herald By Bob Fischbach Aaron Zavitz was watching "The Cable Guy" a few years back when he got an idea for a play. He worked on it, off and on, for years. The play got a staged reading a couple years ago at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Zavitz used ... See all stories on this topic »

A crown lies uneasily in Round House's 'Shadows' Washington Post What a piece of work is this Telemachus, the Hamlet-like brooder of playwright Jason Gray Platt's modern family tragedy, "Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysseus." Spoiled and sullen, he buries his head in books and sneers at the parade of craven ... See all stories on this topic »

O'Neill picks eight works for National Playwrights Conference TheDay.com Waterford - The latest play by Theresa Rebeck - the Broadway and off-Broadway playwright who created the NBC drama "Smash" - is one of eight selected for this summer's National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. See all stories on this topic »

Playwrights win 8% fee increase Stage Playwrights working for the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company are to benefit from an increase of just under 8% on their total minimum fee. The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has secured a rate of £11500 for writers of ... See all stories on this topic »

Bay One Acts: Festival puts new plays onstage San Francisco Chronicle This year's festival offers 10 new plays - with more than 70 theater artists participating - including "Cello," a piece that was commissioned by the festival and penned by nationally renowned playwright, and San Francisco native, Anthony Clarvoe. See all stories on this topic »

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Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama ... Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes just won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for her play, Water by the Spoonful, which tells the story of an Iraq veteran's... www.remezcla.com/.../playwright-quiara-alegria-hudes-wins-p...