News from On and Off York Street

The Playwriting Chair’s script is called “idiomatic and poetic in its cadences and pleasingly serpentine in its structure.”

The winner will be announced on March 4 at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

His play Choir Boy just opened. His next film will air on Netflix. What ties his work together? Plumbing the depths of black beauty and grief.

The League of Professional Theatre Women will present its first Oral History Project of 2019 with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright on February 4.

Directed by Leah C. Gardiner (’96), the 2017 Carlotta Festival-developed play features a wealth of YSD talent.

The Playwriting Chair is about to make his Broadway debut, return to the stage as an actor, and collaborate with Oprah on a TV series.

The world premiere of the poetic play by Miranda Rose Hall (’17) opens January 31 at Diversionary Theatre.

The play by Jeremy O. Harris (’19) “doesn’t and can’t promise that the things it wants to tell us won’t hurt.”

Jeremy O. Harris (’19)’s debut is “like commuting into Manhattan on a comet.”

Eclipse plans to explore the range of Durang’s canon with three full productions, readings, and public events focused on the playwright and his works.