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Jun 13, 2024 · With her husband, Filmmaker Tony Gerber, Nottage is the co-founder of Market Road Films, a production company. Lynn Nottage is a distinguished playwright whose work focuses on the lives of women of African descent.
3 days ago · The show reunites playwright Lynn Nottage and director Lynette Linton on the Donmar stage, following their collaborations on Sweat and Clyde’s. Tim Sheader, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, said, “I am hugely honoured to be leading this very special theatre into a new era, building on the legacy of my predecessors.
3 days ago · Orange is the New Black star Samira Wiley will star in Intimate Apparel, written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Lynette Linton. Set in New York in 1905, the play follows a woman who sews lingerie and dreams of opening her own beauty salon. Longing to fall in love, she is intrigued when she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome ...
Jun 18, 2024 · How Women of Color Are Shifting the Narrative. Carla Renata June 18, 2024. Tweet. From Hattie McDaniel to Shonda Rhimes to Debra Martin Chase, Black women have shifted the narrative and broken down barriers where we were never expected, welcomed, or encouraged to succeed.
Jun 17, 2024 · Don’t overlook Crumbs from the Table of Joy, one of Lynn Nottage’s lesser-known plays, now onstage at the Lantern. Nottage’s skill shines in this early play, weaving complex characters grounded in a strong sense of place; seeds of future plays are apparent.
3 days ago · The final play in the season is a revival of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, starring Samira Wiley and directed by Lynette Linton. It runs from June 20, 2025 until August 9, with a press night ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Between The Lines Studio Theatre presents Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Sweat,” May 12 - 21. The New York playwright set her play in Reading, Berks County, during the years 2000 to 2008 after seeing a New York Times article about the decline of factories in the city.
Jun 14, 2024 · Euripides' Medea by Michael Ewans. This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Medea, with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them. Euripides' Medea. Translated.
4 days ago · Escaping the intense commercial pressure of Broadway, the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway theaters fostered the development of feminist and other experimental drama as well as the careers of playwrights such as Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Maria Irene Fornés, and Lynn Nottage.
Jun 12, 2024 · A collectively authored essay by leading artists, academics, and theatre advocates about Paula Vogel’s Indecent and Lynn Nottage’s Sweat on Broadway amid a conversation about critical bias toward women playwrights and playwrights of color.
