The partnership and trust between a playwright and a director are vital for the success of a play, but this is especially unique when they're tied as friends and colleagues for years. The st…
On this American Theatre Wing's Master Class, Tony Nominated Scenic Designer Edward Pierce (Wicked, Angels in America) takes us behind the scenes into the world of Shiz/Oz, while sharing the…
"Receiving the Jonathan Larson Grant means time, more time to work, to take a breath, to listen and sing, to figure out what we might offer others. It means, in short, the whole damn world."…
"It's such a fuel to our creative process. It's a really hard industry to work in and take a long time to get new work produced. This award keeps us going." - The Lazours The Jonathan Lars…
"The recognition and also the cash that comes with the award really helped to accelerate my career." - Anna. K Jacobs The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in indi…
"Jonathan Larson made something that quite literally changed my life so when my collaborator Laura and I found out we had received a Jonathan Larson Grant back in 2022 it was really the most…
"First and foremost I just want to thank Jonathan for that show [Rent] and my parents for heeding the hunch that I might be ready to hear it when I was." - Julian Hornik The Jonathan Larson…
"This came at just the right time that I was able to stay in New York, keep writing, and feel like somebody supported me and there was somebody out there that saw what I was doing and that t…
"When I was living in Mexico, I was struggling to fit anywhere. I couldn't find my place. I couldn't find a way to communicate and express who I was. And it wasn't until I discovered musical…
"I picked a word of the year, and this year it was faith... faith that I am on the right path as an artist and I need to continue to write and write no matter what because this is what I lov…
"So for the first 'yes' that I've received from New York after a decade of 'no's' - 95 of them, I counted - for the first to be in the name of Jonathan Larson, that kindred spirit who sent m…
"It is surreal to be on receiving end of this honor as a book writer, composer and lyricist." - Larry Owens The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual tal…
"I never expected to have this happen and it honestly is the best thing that's ever happened to me in my theatre career." - Paris Ray Dozier The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional an…
"Receiving this grant is a vote of confidence for us lucky ones to continue to make our particular medicine. Thank you so much for this honor and congratulations to everybody who's here." - …
"Multilingualism is the only path to develop new audiences in our field, so we are hopeful, that 'Azul' can be one more step toward linguistic inclusion in the American theatre." - Jacinta C…
"Create fearlessly, sing what hasn't been sung before, and elevate the stories that need to be heard." - Laura Grill Jaye The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in…
"And so I'm so grateful to have support, big and small, to continue doing this." - Zenbia Now The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent. The grant…
"She's always there to serve her community, she's always there to make it better," is how Artistic Director/Founder/Writer/Performer Desi P. Shelton describes Camden Rep. But it seems we ca…
From the very first moment of SANCOCHO, a hush falls over the audience as if we are afraid we'll be discovered spying on Caridad in her kitchen as she waits for her sister. Caridad prepares …
A playwright is lucky to have actors embody their words, freeing them from the page to the stage and, in the process, adding new meaning to the work. When it's not just one actor but a group…
The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
Plato describes music as "the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." To sit in space and feel, not only hear chords, but feel notes and an arrangement of music…
These two performance artists' radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such as …
The minimalism of a perfectly placed slash of light piercing the dark can be as memorable and dramatic as the best writing and acting. From the nightmarishly epic boxing ring of the mind in …