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2021 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Katori Hall and Signature Trustee Donna Walker-Kuhne to be Honored at 2022 Signature Theatre Gala on Jun. 13

Signature Theatre, which makes an extended commitment to producing a playwright’s body of work, is holding the 2022 Gala in the sweeping lobby of its own Frank Gehry-designed home, The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street). On Monday, June 13, on the heels of an exciting re-opening season—with acclaimed productions of plays by Anna Deavere Smith, Dominique Morisseau, and Samuel D. Hunter, reminding … Continue reading 2021 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Katori Hall and Signature Trustee Donna Walker-Kuhne to be Honored at 2022 Signature Theatre Gala on Jun. 13

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Signature’s Production of Katori Hall’s THE HOT WING KING Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Signature Theatre’s production of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King has won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan … Continue reading Signature’s Production of Katori Hall’s THE HOT WING KING Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Watch: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND Cast members Abraham Kim, Jane Lui, Joe Ngo, and Courtney Reed, Playwrights Katori Hall, Samuel D. Hunter, Dominique Morisseau, Lynn Nottage, and Dave Malloy Set for Signature Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Celebration; Anna Deavere Smith to Receive Signature Outstanding Artist Award

Watch: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND Cast members Abraham Kim, Jane Lui, Joe Ngo, and Courtney Reed, Playwrights Katori Hall, Samuel D. Hunter, Dominique Morisseau, Lynn Nottage, and Dave Malloy Set for Signature Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Celebration; Anna Deavere Smith to Receive Signature Outstanding Artist Award https://wp.me/p8ilTC-9jb Continue reading Watch: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND Cast members Abraham Kim, Jane Lui, Joe Ngo, and Courtney Reed, Playwrights Katori Hall, Samuel D. Hunter, Dominique Morisseau, Lynn Nottage, and Dave Malloy Set for Signature Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Celebration; Anna Deavere Smith to Receive Signature Outstanding Artist Award

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Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chang-Rae Lee, Katori Hall, Yiyun Li, Adam Rapp, C. Pam Zhang are among the 18 American Academy of Arts and Letters 2021 Literature Award Winners

Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chang-Rae Lee, Katori Hall, Yiyun Li, Adam Rapp, C. Pam Zhang are among the 18 American Academy of Arts and Letters 2021 Literature Award Winners https://wp.me/p8ilTC-98Q Continue reading Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chang-Rae Lee, Katori Hall, Yiyun Li, Adam Rapp, C. Pam Zhang are among the 18 American Academy of Arts and Letters 2021 Literature Award Winners

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SLAVE PLAY and Tony Nominee Jeremy O. Harris Launch The Golden Collection Featuring 15 Plays By Black Playwrights

SLAVE PLAY and Tony Nominee Jeremy O. Harris Launch The Golden Collection Featuring 15 Plays By Black Playwrights https://wp.me/p8ilTC-86q In addition to Slave Play, other plays include Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry, The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe, An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Sweat by Lynn Nottage, A Collection of Plays (Wedding Band and Trouble in Mind) by Alice Childress, Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation by Jackie Sibblies Drury, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith, Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, Bootycandy by Slave Play’s Tony Award-nominated director Robert O’Hara, and Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott. Continue reading SLAVE PLAY and Tony Nominee Jeremy O. Harris Launch The Golden Collection Featuring 15 Plays By Black Playwrights

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