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Fugard & Mokae In 'Blood Knot'

Arts Mar 10

Athol Fugard, Tony Award-winning South African playwright whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92

By Mark Kennedy, Gerald Imray, Associated Press

Arts Oct 24

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Octavio Solis on growing up a ‘skinny brown kid’ on the U.S.-Mexico border

As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite…

By Jeffrey Brown

Arts Feb 05

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The festival where being a female playwright isn’t a rarity

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, which produces works written entirely by women, opened in Washington last month. Jeffrey Brown sits down with three of the featured playwrights to discuss why they believe festivals like this are meaningful, the #MeToo movement,…

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Arts Jul 31

Actor Sam Shepard talks about Discovery Channel's "Klondike" during the Winter 2014 TCA presentations in Pasadena, California, January 9, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT PROFILE) - RTX177UP
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and keen observer of American family life, dies at 73

Shepard, 73, died in Kentucky last week following a battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a spokesperson for the family told news outlets.

By Dayana Morales Gomez

Arts Apr 11

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Playwright Tracy Letts unravels different ages of identity in a single life

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts has famously depicted family dysfunction, but his latest play, “Mary Page Marlowe,” is more concerned with questions of identity, examining the life of its protagonist from infancy to old age in non-linear fashion to find…

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Oct 30

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‘Disgraced’ interrogates definitions of identity and Islam in America

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Amir is a successful corporate lawyer living a version of the American Dream, who has turned his back on the Muslim faith of his parents. The Broadway play "Disgraced," by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, tells the story of how…

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Oct 23

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‘It’s Only a Play’ pokes fun at the pain and pleasure of theater life

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Nov 20

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New play looks beyond war headlines to tell story of ‘Love in Afghanistan’

New play looks beyond war headlines to tell story of 'Love in Afghanistan'…

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May 10

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Conversation: Jon Robin Baitz’s ‘Other Desert Cities’

Jeffrey Brown talks to playwright Jon Robin Baitz about his play "Other Desert Cities."…

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Dec 12

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In ‘Pullman Porter Blues,’ a Family’s Trip Through Time

Conversation with playwright Cheryl L. West and actor Cleavant Derricks.

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