Tag: Lynn Nottage
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Lynn Nottage Talks Research, Collaboration, and the Fracturing of America,
Originally published by Howlround on January 28, 2016 Lynn Nottage’s newest play, Sweat, a co-commission by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) and Arena Stage, originated in OSF’s American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle. Nottage’s contribution to this ten-year program of commissioning “up to thirty-seven new plays from moments of change in United States history” deals […]
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Lynn Nottage Brings 80 Years of Women, Race and Hollywood to the Stage
Cross posted at Ms. Looking for an evening of entertainment that’s humorous, thought provoking, and possibly paradigm changing? The West Coast premiere of African American Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage‘s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is your ticket. But it’s not your typical evening of theater. Directed by Jo Bonney and featuring Sanaa […]
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The Women of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Talk Hollywood, Race and Gender
The women behind Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (see here for more) talk about the issues raised in the play and it’s relationship to their lives: How have race and gender functioned for you in your careers? How do you see them guiding casting in Hollywood today? Kimberly Hébert Gregory […]