Playwriting News--4.26.12

Playwright Douglas Post Leads 2012 "New Plays from the Heartland" Project Peoria Journal Star (blog) He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award and three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for a Joseph ... See all stories on this topic » Peoria Journal Star (blog)

$18 Million Gift for Theater at Yale New York Times (blog) The hub of this playwriting activity will be the newly re-named Binger Center for New Theater (formerly the Yale Center for New Theater), named after the businessman and theater owner James H. Binger, whose philanthropic organization, ... See all stories on this topic »

Al Smith's Atom Bomb Play ENOLA Set for the side project May 13 - June 15 Broadway World Rogers Park-based theatre company, the side project, will present the US premiere of Enola, which won the 2006 Sunday Times (UK) Playwriting Award, as part of its three-show Spring Repertory, starting May 13. Enola tackles the deeply trying ... See all stories on this topic »

Playwright of Hunger Striking has felt the pain of anorexia Calgary Herald Playwright Kit Brennan says the inspiration for her play about anorexia, Hunger Striking — which Urban Curvz Theatre presents at Pumphouse, beginning tonight — came soon after she began teaching playwriting and related topics at Concordia University ... See all stories on this topic »

Players to hold reading, name contest winner Green Bay Press Gazette The reading also will have the announcement of the winner of Players' high school play writing contest. "Twain and Shaw Do Lunch" is a comedy based on a true event. In 1907, the world's two greatest living writers had lunch together. See all stories on this topic »

Photo Coverage: Robert Petkoff & More in Project Shaw's WIDOWERS' HOUSES Broadway World Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presented George Bernard Shaw's WIDOWERS' HOUSES – the play that started him on his epic playwriting journey – on Monday, April 23 at The Players Club in Manhattan. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the show, ... See all stories on this topic »

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