Tag Archives: Pulitzer Prize

Theatre in 1999 (Blogathon ’09 #39)

Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her intimate play about a cancer patient called W;t.  This is an amazing production, and will touch all of those who have had a loved one with cancer.  Beautiful, a must read! This post is for the Blogathon 2009! I am blogging for The Actor’s Fund. [...]

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Theatre in 1996 (Blogathon ’09 #36)

Another of my all-time favorite musicals was also quite controversial at first.  That would be Tony Award winning Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Rent.  The book, music, and lyrics were all created by the unknown Jonathan Larson, who unfortunately died just before the show opened.  Now considered a classic, this production really [...]

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Theatre in 1993 (Blogathon ’09 #33)

A play that changed theatre yet again was the very controversial Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner.  This production won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the following year Perestroika, the second half of Angels in America, won awards as well.  In college I studied this [...]

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