News from On and Off York Street

New York Times calls his play, opening October 6, a “provocative exploration of race relations and sexuality.”

The world premiere is being co-produced by The Sol Project, Baltimore Center Stage, and Playwrights Realm.

Drury explains her intention behind making audiences uncomfortable in Fairview, her Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race and self-awareness.

The Playwriting Chair, who won an Oscar for the Moonlight screenplay, will appear in his new play Ms. Blakk for President.

Hartford Courant gives ardent praise to Cadillac Crew‘s cast and “fast-rising young playwright,” Tori Sampson (’17.)

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.”