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Westport Country Playhouse Commissions Three Playwrights to Develop New Works
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 29, 2022

Westport Country Playhouse has announced the first formal group of commissioned playwrights in the theater’s 91-year history: Matthew Greene, Monet Hurst-Mendoza, and Johnny G. Lloyd.

Laurents Hatcher Foundation Awards Second Round Of Emergency Grants
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2020

As theaters across the country remain shuttered for more than six months as a result of COVID-19, The Laurents / Hatcher Foundation announced today a second round of grants to twenty-five theaters to assist in sustaining operations.

The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater and The Arthur Laurents Theater Come to New Jersey
by Stephi Wild - Mar 21, 2019

The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC), City of New Brunswick, and George Street Playhouse today announced The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater and The Arthur Laurents Theater named after two George Street Playhouse benefactors. The $7.75 million in gifts, the largest in George Street Playhouse history, strengthens NBPAC as the premier center for the performing arts. NBPAC, a $172 million redevelopment initiative that will transform New Brunswick's Downtown Cultural Arts District, opens its doors to the public this fall.

SOMETHING CLEAN Receives 2019 Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award
by Stephi Wild - Feb 7, 2019

The Trustees of The Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, Inc. are pleased to announce that Something Clean by SELINA FILLINGER is recipient of the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award. Ms. Fillinger will receive $50,000 for the work, and Roundabout Theater Company, who will produce the premiere this spring, will receive $100,000 towards the production.

VIDEO: On This Day, July 14- Remembering Arthur Laurents
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 14, 2018

Arthur Laurents was best known for his work as librettist on Gypsy and West Side Story, but was also well known as a playwright, having won a Tony Award® for Hallelujah, Baby! in 1968. Later as a director, he was Tony-nominated for Gypsy in 1975 (and the 2008 revival) as well as the original 1984 La Cage Aux Folles.

SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS Receives the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Award
by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2018

The Trustees of The Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, Inc. are pleased to announce that SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS by Donja R. Love is the recipient of the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award. Mr. Love will receive $50,000, and Manhattan Theatre Club, who will present the world premiere in June 2018, will receive $100,000 towards the production.

La Jolla Playhouse Receives Grants in Support of Ayad Akhtar's THE WHO & THE WHAT
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 3, 2014

La Jolla Playhouse is the recipient of three prestigious and highly-competitive grants to support its world-premiere production of The Who & The What, by 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, directed by Kimberly Senior, running February 11 - March 9 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. The grants include the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award, as well awards from The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund.

McCarter Theatre Center Receives Grant to Support New Work by Danai Gurira
by BWW News Desk - Dec 16, 2013

McCarter Theatre Center has announced a grant award of $30,000 from the Laurents-Hatcher Foundation to support the development of two new works by actress and playwright Danai Gurira, which will ultimately form a cycle in connection with her 2012 play The Convert.