News from On and Off York Street

The world premiere of Tarker’s Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man is April 23 – May 12.

The production, directed by Sarah Benson with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, will return to the New York stage beginning June 2.

Her play Good Faith: Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department premiered at Yale Repertory Theater in February.

Benne’s script Alma (or #nowall) was selected from a pool of 752 submissions.

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.