Lynn Nottage

Last updated
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone.JPG
Born (1964-11-02) November 2, 1964 (age 59)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright, professor
Education Brown University (AB)
Yale University (MFA)
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2009, 2017)
Obie Award
Spouse Tony Gerber
Children2

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined , and in 2017 for her play Sweat . She was the first (and remains the only) woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times. [1]

Contents

Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and was included in Time magazine's 2019 list of the 100 Most Influential People. [2] She is currently a professor of playwriting at Columbia University and an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory.

Early and personal life

Lynn Nottage was born on November 2, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. [3] [4] Her mother Ruby Nottage was a schoolteacher and principal; her father Wallace was a child psychologist. She went to Saint Ann's School for elementary school before graduating from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. [5] While in high school, she wrote her first full-length play, The Darker Side of Verona, about an African-American Shakespeare company traveling through the South.

She attended Brown University (A.B., 1986) and the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A., 1989). After graduation, Nottage worked in Amnesty International's press office for four years. [6] More recently, Nottage has received honorary degrees from Brown (D.F.A., 2011), the Juilliard School and Albright College.

Nottage is married to filmmaker Tony Gerber, with whom she has two children, Ruby Aiyo and Melkamu Gerber.

Career

Nottage's plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world.

Plays

Intimate Apparel

One of her best-known plays is Intimate Apparel .

In 1905 New York, Esther, a Black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women, and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. One by one, the other denizens of the boarding house marry and move away, but Esther remains, lonely and longing for a husband and a future. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she's saved to open a beauty parlor where Black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for.

Co-commissioned and produced at Baltimore's Center Stage, it premiered in February 2003 [7] and South Coast Repertory. [8] The Off-Broadway production at Roundabout Theatre Company opened in 2004, starring Viola Davis, and receiving critical acclaim. It received the 2004 AUDELCO Viv Award for Playwriting; AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee) recognizes and honors excellence in Black theatre. Intimate Apparel has since been commissioned by the MET / Lincoln Center to be adapted into an opera, and will be composed by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Since 2004, Intimate Apparel has become one of the most produced plays in America.

Ruined

Ruined dramatizes the plight of Congolese women surviving civil war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ruined follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman protecting and profiting from the women she shelters.The play deals with the role of women in war and the societal stigma around Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

It premiered in 2007 in the Goodman Theatre (Chicago) New Stages Series, [9] and transferred to Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in February 2009. [10] Ruined was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ruined also received the 2009 AUDELCO Viv Award for Dramatic Production of the Year.

On May 13, 2009, Nottage spoke at a public reception in Washington, D.C. following a United States Senate Foreign Relations joint subcommittee hearing entitled "Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones," with case studies on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. [11]

On October 12, 2009, Nottage spoke at the United Nations as part of the Exhibit CONGO/WOMEN Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo.

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. When both women land roles in the same Southern epic, the story behind the camera leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy.

It premiered Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre on May 9, 2011, with direction by Jo Bonney. [12] The play is a "funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood." [13] The play was nominated for the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play. [14] The play ran at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in September 2012, starring Sanaa Lathan, who played the role of the maid who becomes a stage star. [15]

Sweat

Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

Nottage received a commission from Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Arena Stage. The play that she wrote as a result, Sweat , was presented at the festival in Ashland, Oregon from July 29, 2015, to October 31, 2015, directed by Kate Whoriskey. [16] [17] The play takes place in Reading, Pennsylvania, and involves steel workers who have been locked out of their factory workplace. [18] The play was produced at the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) from January 15 to February 21, 2016, directed by Whoriskey. [19] Nottage won the 2015–16 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for this play. [20] [21] [22] [23] Sweat premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on October 18, 2016 (previews), officially on November 3, again directed by Whoriskey. Here, the play was awarded the 2017 Obie Award for Playwriting. [24] The play closed on December 18, 2016. [25] [26] [27] Sweat opened on Broadway at Studio 54 on March 4, 2017, in previews, officially on March 26. This marks Nottage's Broadway debut. [28] [29]

Sweat was a finalist for the 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama. [30] [31] Sweat was again a finalist for the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. The award is administered by Columbia University. [32] [33] The play won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Other plays

Her short play Poof! (Heideman Award) was presented in 1993 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. [34] [35] It was then broadcast on PBS in 2002, with a cast that featured Rosie Perez and Viola Davis. [36] [37] Poof! was also recorded for podcast and public radio by Playing on Air, with a cast that featured Audra McDonald, Tonya Pinkins, and Keith Randolph Smith with direction by Seret Scott.

Her political satire Por'Knockers premiered in 1995 at the Vineyard Theatre, directed by Michael Rogers, featuring Sanaa Lathan.

The West Coast premiere of her Crumbs from the Table of Joy , at South Coast Repertory in September 1996, [38] earned two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance.

Mud, River, Stone premiered in 1996 at The Acting Company directed by Seret Scott; it premiered in New York in 1997 at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Roger Rees. It was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and won numerous regional theatre awards.

Las Meninas premiered in 2002 at San Jose Rep, directed by Michael Edwards. It was awarded a Rockefeller Grant, as well as the AT&T OnStage Award. It follows the true story of Queen Maria Theresa of Spain (wife of Louis XIV) and her affair with her African servant, Nabo, a dwarf from Dahomey.

Obie Award-winning Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (her companion piece to Intimate Apparel, set one hundred years later), opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in June 2004. [39]

Her play Mlima's Tale premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 27, 2018, in previews, officially on April 15 in a limited engagement to May 20. Direction is by Jo Bonney. The play concerns an elephant, Mlima, "trapped inside the clandestine international ivory market". Sahr Ngaujah plays Mlima. [40] [41] Mlima's Tale was nominated for the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) (Lap Chi Chu) and Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) (Darron L. West). [42] The play was nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Director (Bonney), Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play (Sahr Ngaujah), Outstanding Costume Design (Jennifer Moeller) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Lap Chi Chu). [43]

Nottage wrote the book for the world premiere musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees , with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. It premiered at the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company on May 12, 2019. The musical is directed by Sam Gold and featured Saycon Sengbloh as Rosaleen, Elizabeth Teeter as Lily, LaChanze, Eisa Davis and Anastacia McCleskey. [44] The musical had a workshop at the Vassar Powerhouse Theater, Martel Theatre in July 2017, directed by Sam Gold. [45] [46]

Other work

Nottage wrote a monologue, The Grey Rooster, following a former slave and his slaveholder's cockfighting rooster in post-Civil War Kentucky. It was performed as part of the National Civil War Project's production Our War, produced in 2014 at Arena Stage, directed by Anita Maynard-Losh.

Nottage contributed to the "dance-theatre musical" written Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens titled In Your Arms which premiered at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, in September 2015. The piece consists of ten vignettes and was directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Her vignette is titled A Wedding Dance and was performed by Marija Juliette Abney and Adesola Osakalumi with The Company. [47]

Nottage wrote the book for a jukebox musical centered on Michael Jackson and titled MJ the Musical , originally aiming to premiere on Broadway in 2020; previews were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the musical premiering in February 2022. MJ is currently running on Broadway, London's West End and is touring the United States. It is set to premiere in Sydney and in Hamburg in Spring 2025. [48]

This is Reading

Nottage co-conceived This is Reading, an immersive transmedia project exploring the decline and rebirth of Reading, Pennsylvania: the setting of Nottage's play Sweat . [49] This site-specific multimedia installation blended live performance and visual media, occupying the Franklin Street Railroad Station in Downtown Reading in May 2017, re-animating the long vacant building. Using as its foundation, the hardships, challenges, and triumphs of people living in and around Reading, This is Reading weaved individual stories into one cohesive tale of the city. It was produced in association with Market Road Films, the Labyrinth Theater Company and Project&.

This Is Reading was conceived by Nottage, and co-created by an award-winning team of artists, including filmmaker Tony Gerber, director Kate Whoriskey and Choreographer Rennie Harris. The creative team included composer Kashaka, projection designer Jeff Sugg, set designer Deb O, costume designer Jennifer Moeller, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, sound designer Nick Kourtides, muralist Katie Merz and producers Jane M. Saks, Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Allison Bressi and Santo D. Marabella.

Market Road Films

Nottage reading at Occupy Wall Street, November 2011 Lynn Nottage Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone.JPG
Nottage reading at Occupy Wall Street, November 2011

She is the co-founder of a production company, Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include The Notorious Mr. Bout, directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin (Premiere/Sundance 2014); First to Fall, directed by Rachel Beth Anderson (Premiere/ IDFA, 2013); and Remote Control (Premiere/Busan 2013–New Currents Award).

Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That, and Harpo Productions. [50]

Film and television

Nottage was a producer and writer for the first season of She's Gotta Have It .

Themes

The Guardian noted:

"Nottage's two decades of work has garnered praise for bringing challenging and often forgotten, stories onto the stage. ... Ruined explored the use of rape as a weapon against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while Intimate Apparel focused on a lonely Black seamstress working in New York in 1905... Future areas the 51-year-old is keen to explore in her plays includes the American prison industrial complex, which is "destroying the lives of so many men of colour" but is barely talked about in the national conversation or on the stage. Yet Nottage also expressed disappointment that her work was constantly defined by both her own race and gender, unlike her white male counterparts." [51]

Works

Full-length plays

Musicals

Operas

Other works

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

Other awards

Fellowships, commissions, and residencies

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paula Vogel</span> American playwright

Paula Vogel is an American playwright. She is known for her provocative explorations of complex social and political issues. Much of her work delves into themes of psychological trauma, abuse, and the complexities of human relationships. She has received the Pulitzer Prize as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. In 2013 she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Will Eno is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, Thom Pain was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play The Realistic Joneses appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by USA Today, and best American play of 2014 by The Guardian. His play The Open House was presented Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2014 and won the Obie Award for Playwriting as well as other awards, and was on both TIME Magazine and Time Out New York 's Top Ten Plays of 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manhattan Theatre Club</span> Theatre company in New York City

Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) is a theatre company located in New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Director Chris Jennings, along with Executive Producer Emeritus Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1972 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country's most acclaimed theatre organizations.

The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation, with additional support from the Theatre Development Fund.

Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. His play Dying City (2006) was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Where Do We Live (2004) won the 2005 Obie Award, Playwriting.

Derek McLane is an American set designer for theatre, opera, and television. He graduated with a BA from Harvard College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her plays Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn were finalists for the 2009 and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, respectively. She has written for the television series Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, FBI: Most Wanted, The Alienist, and House of Cards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Signature Theatre Company</span> American theatre in New York

Signature Theatre Company is an American theatre based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in 1991 by James Houghton and is now led by Artistic Director Paige Evans. Signature is known for their season-long focus on one artist's work. It has been located in the Pershing Square Signature Center since 2012.

Ruined (2008) is an American play by Lynn Nottage. The play premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play explores the plight of women during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Intimate Apparel is a play written by Lynn Nottage. The play is a co-production and co-commission between Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, and South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California. The play is set in New York City in 1905 and concerns a young African-American woman who travels to New York to pursue her dreams, becoming an independent woman as a seamstress.

Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine is a play written by Lynn Nottage.

Kate Whoriskey is a freelance theatre director.

Amy Herzog is an American playwright. She is known for her poignant and character-driven plays that explore themes of family dynamics, personal relationships, and the complexities of human experience. She has received a Drama Desk Award as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.

The Flick is a play by Annie Baker that received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting. The Flick premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Branden Jacobs-Jenkins</span> American playwright (born 1984)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. His plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play Appropriate made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023 and earned him his first Tony Award. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a play by Lynn Nottage. The play concerns an African-American maid in the 1930s who becomes a film star.

Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. The play is centered on the working class of Reading, Pennsylvania.

Harrison David Rivers is an American playwright. Rivers' work has won him the Relentless Award, a GLAAD Media Award, a McKnight Fellowship for Playwrights, a Jerome Foundation Many Voices Fellowship, an Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship, a Van Lier Fellowship and the New York Stage & Film's Founders Award. He is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is married to Christopher Bineham.

Cost of Living is a dramatic stage play written by Polish-born American playwright Martyna Majok. It premiered in Williamstown, Massachusetts, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival on June 29, 2016, and had an Off-Broadway engagement in 2017. The play won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play.

Jo Bonney is an American theater director who has worked Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally, primarily focused on the development of new plays.

References

  1. ↑ Dominus, Susan (2021-10-14). "Lynn Nottage". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  2. ↑ "Lynn Nottage: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019". TIME. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  3. ↑ Wilmeth, Don B., ed. (2007). "Nottage, Lynn". The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre (2nd hardcover ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.  486. ISBN   978-0-521-83538-1. OCLC   84996586.
  4. ↑ "Nottage, Lynn 1964–". Contemporary Black Biography. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  5. ↑ Kilian, Michael. "Playwright tells intimate tales: Lynn Nottage wrote 2 works simultaneously", Chicago Tribune, June 17, 2004.
  6. ↑ Michel Martin (September 25, 2007). Tell Me More (mpeg) (Radio broadcast). NPR.
  7. ↑ Simonson, Robert (February 8, 2003). "Baltimore's Center Stage Presents New Lynn Nottage Play, Intimate Apparel, Feb. 26". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  8. ↑ Intimate Apparel, scr.org, Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ "'Ruined' Goodman Theatre", goodmantheatre.org, Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  10. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (April 30, 2009). "Pulitzer Winner Ruined Gets Six Extra Weeks at MTC". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  11. ↑ Patrick Healy. "Women of ‘Ruined’ to Speak in Washington About Rape", The New York Times, May 12, 2009.
  12. ↑ Brantley, Ben (May 9, 2011). "A Black Actress Trying to Rise Above a Maid". The New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  13. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (April 27, 2011). "Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Gets Extra Week at Off-Broadway's Second Stage". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  14. ↑ Gans, Andrew (April 27, 2012). "Drama Desk Nominations Announced; Death Takes a Holiday and Follies Lead the Pack". Playbill.
  15. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (September 26, 2012). "Vera Stark, Ready for Her L.A. Close-Up, Opens Sept. 26; Sanaa Lathan Stars". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  16. ↑ Weinerdt-Kent, Rob. "How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’", americantheatre.org, July 10, 2015.
  17. ↑ Sweat, osfashland.org, accessed August 25, 2015.
  18. ↑ Scott, Aaron. "Oregon Shakespeare Festival Sweats America's De-Industrialization With New Play", opb.org, July 30, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Press Release. Sweat" Archived February 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine arenastage.org, December 2, 2015.
  20. ↑ Gordon, David. "Lynn Nottage Receives 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize", theatermania.com, February 22, 2016.
  21. ↑ Editors. "Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Announces 2015–16 Finalists", American Theatre, January 26, 2016.
  22. ↑ Clement, Olivia (January 27, 2016). "Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalists Announced". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  23. ↑ "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage Wins 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize" talkinbroadway.com, accessed February 22, 2016.
  24. ↑ Obie Awards, 2017 Winners.
  25. ↑ Clement, Olivia. "David Byrne, Harvey Fierstein, Nia Vardalos and Lynn Nottage Tapped For Public Season", Playbill, May 19, 2016.
  26. ↑ Rickwald, Bethany. "Miriam Shor, John Earl Jelks, and More Cast in Lynn Nottage's Sweat", theatermania.com, September 13, 2016.
  27. ↑ Clement, Olivia, "Lynn Nottage’s Sweat Opens at The Public Tonight" Playbill, November 3, 2016
  28. ↑ Clement, Olivia. "Lynn Nottage to Make Broadway Debut with Transfer of Sweat", Playbill, December 5, 2016.
  29. ↑ Clement, Olivia (March 3, 2017). "Sweat Announces Mobile Rush". Playbill. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017.
  30. ↑ "Finalists Announced for 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired By American History" kennedyprize.columbia.edu, January 27, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016
  31. ↑ Viagas, Robert (February 22, 2016). "Kennedy Prize for Drama Goes to Hamilton". Playbill. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016.
  32. ↑ " 'Sweat', 'Indecent' and 'Vietgone' Among Finalists for 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize" broadwayworld.com, January 13, 2017
  33. ↑ "Winner of the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History Announced", kennedyprize.columbia.edu, February 27, 2017.
  34. ↑ "Lynn Nottage at Doollee" doollee.com, accessed February 24, 2016.
  35. ↑ Nottage, Lynn. Poof!, "'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' and Other Plays", Theatre Communications Group, 2003, ISBN   1559367075, p. 89.
  36. ↑ "'Poof!' Overview and Cast", tcm.com, accessed February 24, 2016.
  37. ↑ Gans, Andrew (July 29, 2001). "Nottage's 'Poof!' to Be Part of PBS' American Shorts Series". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  38. ↑ Nottage, Lynn. "Introduction" Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1998, ISBN   0822215721, p. 3.
  39. ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "Lynn Nottage's 'Fabulation' Gets World Premiere at Playwrights Horizons, Opening June 13", Playbill, June 13, 2004.
  40. ↑ Clement, Olivia. "Lynn Nottage's Mlima's Tale Finds its Cast at The Public", Playbill, February 8, 2018.
  41. ↑ Clement, Olivia (April 15, 2018). "Lynn Nottage's Mlima's Tale Opens Off-Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  42. ↑ Clement, Olivia. "SpongeBob SquarePants Leads Outer Critics Circle Nominations", Playbill, April 24, 2018.
  43. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Nominations for 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards Announced; Carmen Jones and Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future Lead the Pack" playbill, April 3, 2019
  44. ↑ Clement, Olivia (May 12, 2019). "New Musical Adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees Begins Off-Broadway May 12". Playbill. Archived from the original on May 12, 2019.
  45. ↑ The Secret Life Of Bees powerhouse.vassar.edu, retrieved May 12, 2019
  46. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba Stars in Secret Life of Bees Musical Workshop, Beginning July 27" Playbill, July 27, 2017
  47. ↑ Viagas, Robert, "The Verdict: Critics Review In Your Arms, With Donna McKechnie, at Old Globe", Playbill, September 28, 2015.
  48. ↑ "MJ the Musical Broadway @ Neil Simon Theatre - Tickets and Discounts".
  49. ↑ Considine, Allison (July 26, 2017). "This Is Reading, This Is Home". American Theatre.
  50. ↑ Jim Lehrer (June 15, 2009). NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (mpeg) (Television production). PBS.
  51. ↑ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah, "Playwright Lynn Nottage: theatre is the last bastion of segregation", The Guardian, February 22, 2016.
  52. ↑ "Por'Knockers". Internet Off-Broadway Database. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  53. ↑ Daniels, Robert L. "Review. 'Mud, River, Stone'", Variety, December 21, 1997.
  54. ↑ Ehren, Christine. "Forbidden Love Reigns in San Jose With Nottage's Las Meninas March 16-April 14", Playbill, March 14, 2002.
  55. ↑ Manohla Dargis. "Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten", The New York Times, April 21, 2011.
  56. ↑ "Clyde's". Broadway. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  57. ↑ Green, Jesse. "‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich", NY Times, Nov. 23, 2021.
  58. ↑ Laura Pels Keynote Address May 2, 2011, accessed April 30, 2023.
  59. ↑ Poof, playscripts.com, accessed November 6, 2016.
  60. ↑ Perry, Jennifer. "BWW Reviews: Arena Stage's 'Our War' - Nothing if Not Ambitious", broadwayworld.com, October 27, 2014.
  61. ↑ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  62. ↑ "2019 Summit Highlights Photo". Tony Award-winning theater director Bartlett Sher presenting the Golden Plate Award to Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, at the Banquet of the Golden Plate Award ceremonies at the St. Regis in New York City.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.