Monday, June 30, 2025
The Drama Desk, Obie, and Lucille Lortel Award-winning artist's Broadway work included Cinderella, How I Learned to Drive, and Heisenberg.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMMark Brokaw, a prolific director of Off Broadway, Broadway and regional stage productions who beginning in the 1990s worked with some of the brightest emerging playwrights including Douglas …
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The world premiere of Call Me Izzy, a darkly comedic story starring six-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Jean Smart, begins performances on Broadway on May 24. The 12-week lim…
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Two-time Tony Award nominee, Johanna Day has joined the upcoming Broadway production of Call Me Izzy, production as Standby for starring six-time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated …
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Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment in Belgrade, ensuring audiences feel an intimacy and closeness to the productions and actor…
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Two-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick will take on the title role in a stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel Babbitt at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Prod…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMMonday, June 3, 2024
The playwright explains the original inspiration behind some of her most beloved plays, including How I Learned to Drive, Indecent, and Mother Play.
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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: For today's performance we've got HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE's Alyssa May Gold!
Learn more: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Living-Room-Concerts-HOW-I-LEARN…
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Gallimaufry -- a Hodge Podge of Thoughts Prompted by Local, Global & Cultural Events
By Elyse Sommer
Friends with whom I maintain a steady email conversation often receive one from me …
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"Mother Play," though based on Vogel’s own life, is her most schematic, more an outline barely fleshed out with lots of details rather than the intense emotional revelations of her earlier…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
As we approach Mother’s Day, it was fitting that two of the plays I saw this week had mothers as central characters, and they could not have been more different. “Mary Jane” is loving,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:08AMSunday, May 5, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 5, 2024: Many of Paula Vogel’s plays explore themes related to her own life. In Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, she turns her brother’s death from AIDS into an ab…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind How I Learned to Drive and the Tony-nominated drama Indecent, returns to Broadway with the world premiere of Mother Play, directed b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Though I was impressed with the first two offerings in Vagabond Players’ 108th season, the company reaches an even higher level of precision and profundity in their current production of �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27PMSaturday, January 20, 2024
Previews are all about the promise of what’s to come so I suppose it’s no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming seaso…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:02PMMonday, September 4, 2023
Mother Play Cast; Death Becomes Her Musical
By: David Sheward
September 7, 2023: Casting and dates have been announced for Mother Play by Paula Vogel (Indecent, How I Learned to Drive) t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Is the Theater Back to its Pre-pandemic Pleasures?
By Elyse Sommer
There are indeed signals for optimism that the worst of the pandemic is over, at least in the theater. Long shuttere…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:29PMSaturday, April 1, 2023
People always ask people like me—people who've been blessed with the opportunity to see lots and lots of shows—what our favorites are. I tend to hem and haw when it comes to plays (somet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Learning to drive a car is a right-of-passage. Most of us can tell you where we learned and who taught us—sometimes with brilliant nostalgia for the vehicle we were in and with gratitude f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
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Paula Vogel’s play How I Learned to Drive won her a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998. The play tells the story of a woman nicknamed Li’l Bit as she comes to terms with a relationship wit…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMFriday, January 20, 2023
The writers of 'Vatican Falls,' 'How I Learned to Drive,' and 'Downstate' take varied approaches to depicting pedophiles—and reckoning with what they deserve.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:06AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
“Indecent” premiered on Broadway in 2017 when Vogel was 65 and had already won a Pulitzer Prize for “How I Learned to Drive.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
The notion of "happily ever after" gets a fresh twist in this page-to-stage adaptation of Between the Lines
Indecent. The Kite Runner. How I Learned to Drive. Jagged Little Pill. During her …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMMonday, July 11, 2022
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Tanya O’Debra (Playwright, Emily Dickinson) is a New York City-based playwright, performer, and MFA candidate at NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Dr…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:33PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
This play's the thing! Though musicals are the main dish for Broadway box offices, Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, led by real-life married couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:33PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Deirdre O’Connell earned her first the Tony Award for her performance in Dana H.; she won in the category of Best Leading Actress in a Play. The win was announced at the 2022 Tony Awards c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Simon Russell Beale earned his first Tony Award for his performance in The Lehman Trilogy, which also won Best Play. He won in the category of Best Leading Actor in a Play. The win was annou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33PMDeirdre O’Connell earned her first the Tony Award for her performance in Dana H.; she won in the category of Best Leading Actress in a Play. The win was announced at the 2022 Tony Awards c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33PMTake Me Out has been named winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The show triumphed at the 75th Annual Tonys ceremony on June 12 at Radio City Music Hall beating out…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:33PMThe production is nominated for three 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play.
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Time to celebrate Broadway's return season! Produced by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the 75th annual Tony Awards take place at …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMWho took home prizes
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The Lehman Trilogy and Company were the big winners at the 75th annual Tony Awards, which took place at Radio City Music Hall. The Lehman Trilogy won five prizes, in…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMFriday, June 10, 2022
Jaquel Spivey, John-Michael Lyles and James Jackson, Jr. at the first Broadway preview curtain call for “A Strange Loop” (Photo: Jeenah Moon for The New York Times).I’ve been handicap…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:00PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Clyde's, Company and SIX win four awards each
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Talk about spreading the love! No one production dominated the 2022 Drama Desk Awards, which honor shows on Broadway and beyond in NYC. The …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Play ball! Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg's play about baseball and unspoken prejudices is Tony-nominated for Best Play Revival and for stars Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Michae…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMPlaywright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play “How I Learned to Drive,” which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nom…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM“Thank you for this work that’s just so magic and so worth it,” expressed Mary-Louise Parker when she accepted the Tony Award from presenter Gwyneth Paltrow in 2001 for her unforgettab…
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