Saturday, May 18, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:08AMThursday, May 9, 2024
"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
The post How I Learned to Drive appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:46PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07AMA constantly updated list of winners
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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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SOURCE: www.podtrac.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 6, 2022
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive was filmed last week by the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of New York Public Library. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMLittle Known Facts is a weekly podcast hosted by stage and film actress Ilana Levine. Today's episode features David Morse! Morse talked about his Tony-nominated role in How I Learned to Dr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38AMFriday, June 3, 2022
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive is in its final two weeks of performances. The production will end its extended run on Sunda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Vogel's How I Learned to Drive makes its long-awaited Broadway debut after 25 years, and leads its cast and playwright to Tony nominations.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48PMRead more or buy tickets at http://www.HowILearnedToDrive.com/
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How I Learned to Drive
By Paula Vogel
Directed by Mark …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:18PMSunday, May 29, 2022
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of pedophilia in the theater. At its premiere in 1997 it was startlingly fresh and shocking—…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:58AM 
