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From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photos: Suzan-Lori Parks' WHITE NOISE Receives European Premiere at the Bridge Theatre
From: Photo Coverage: Signature Theatre Celebrates Opening Night of Suzan-Lori Parks' F***ING A
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Suzan-Lori Parks, Plays for the Plague Year
Suzan-Lori Parks, The Harder They Come
Suzan-Lori Parks, White Noise
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts I, II, & III
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks , Topdog / Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori ParksIn The Blood
Suzan-Lori ParksIn the Blood
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, Venus
Suzan-Lori ParksImperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
Get a first look inside rehearsals for Suzan-Lori Parks' Sally & Tom at The Public Theater.
See acclaimed director Steve H. Broadnax III discuss bringing The Public Theater production of Suzan Lori-Parks SALLY & TOM to life in a new video!
Steppenwolf Theatre Company, under the leadership of Artistic Directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis and Executive Director Brooke Flanagan, has announced its 2024/25 Season, featuring several Chicago and world premieres.
Second Stage Theater has revealed the complete cast for the world premiere production of a new play by Alexis Scheer, BREAKING THE STORY. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Theatre Rhinoceros will present the world premiere of non-binary playwright Roger Q. Mason's boundary-breaking play The Pride of Lions. The Pride of Lions is directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza, stars seven Bay Area actors, and is supported by a creative team of both local and Southern California design talent.
Palm Beach Dramaworks will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2024-25 with a roster of plays that epitomize its commitment to “Theatre to Think About.” Learn about full programming and see how to purchase tickets.
SALLY & TOM, a New York premiere play by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, has extended through Sunday, May 5. Learn how to purchase tickets!
The Public Theater has revealed the complete cast for the world premiere of JORDANS written by Ife Olujobi and directed by Obie Award winner Whitney White. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Theatre Communications Group reveals the recipients of the Plays for the People: In the Stacks initiative, an effort to support and promote new theatrical works.
Theatre Communications Group has announced the recipients of Plays for the People: In the Stacks. With funding from the Mellon Foundation, TCG has provided $25,000 total in book credits to the fifty recipient organizations, helping to expand and diversify their drama collections.
Bay Area Cabaret will present Venetian Evenings, a musical celebration paying homage to the world-famous Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco.
The complete cast has been revealed for the American premiere of The Welkin, written by Lucy Kirkwood and directed by Sarah Benson at Atlantic Theater Company. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
The world premiere of Kristen Adele Calhoun’s Black Cypress Bayou has already begun at the Geffen Playhouse. Tiffany Nichole Greene directs the cast of: Amber Chardae Robinson, Brandee Evans, Angela Lewis and Kimberly Scott. After a successful opening weekend, Kristen managed to find some time to answer a few of my queries.
Invictus Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winner TOPDOG/UNDERDOG has moments of comedic entertainment and dramatic import, but it struggles to live up to the play's substantial reputation. It runs through March 31.
Tony Award-winning performer and producer LaChanze joined CBS Sunday Morning this week to discuss her career on stage, representation of black voices behind the scenes, and stepping into her new role as a Broadway producer. As part of the segment, LaChanze performed a stripped down version of a song from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Kimberly Akimbo. Watch the video!
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG comes to Tulsa PAC this weekend. Performances run Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 8:00PM - Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 3:00PM.
Watch LaChanze discuss her career on stage and now behind the scenes as a Broadway producer!
Morgan Hogenmiller, Maraika Lumholdt, and Katy Zapanta will present an invite-only industry reading of One Day Down by Samantha Toy Ozeas.
The American Dance Guild Festival returns to Ailey Citigroup Theater from Feb. 22-25, featuring works by 30 contemporary choreographers and honoring Joan Miller, Ron K. Brown/Evidence, and Celia Ipiotis/Eye on Dance. Don't miss this celebration of modern dance innovation.
This time, the reader question was: Are there a lot of new productions by Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists this season, or does it just seem that way?
Suzan-Lori Parks has written 9 shows including Unchain My Heart (Bookwriter), The America Play (Playwright), Urban Zulu Mambo (Playwright), Topdog / Underdog (Playwright), F-ing A (Composer), The Book Of Grace (Playwright), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Playwright), The Red Letter Plays: In the Blood (Author), White Noise (Playwright).
Suzan-Lori Parks has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout her career, including Outstanding Music in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Plays for the Plague Year", Outstanding Book of a Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "The Harder They Come", and a Playwriting Award at the Obie Awards for "White Noise". She was also recognized with the Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee at The Lortels, Playwriting at the Obie Awards for "Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts I, II, & III", Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Topdog/Underdog", and the John Gassner Playwriting Award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Topdog/Underdog". Parks has won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Topdog/Underdog", "In The Blood", and "In the Blood". She was also acknowledged with Guest Judges and Playwriting awards at the Obie Awards for "Venus" and "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom", respectively.
Suzan-Lori Parks has won several awards throughout her career, including Outstanding Music in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Plays for the Plague Year," a Playwriting Award at the Obie Awards for "White Noise," Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee at The Lortels, a Playwriting Award at the Obie Awards for "Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts I, II, & III," Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Topdog/Underdog," the John Gassner Playwriting Award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Topdog/Underdog," The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Topdog/Underdog," Guest Judges at the Obie Awards, Playwriting at the Obie Awards for "Venus," and Best New American Play at the Obie Awards for "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom."
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