TOP: Ralph and Myron (l-r, Patrick Russell and Charles Dean) have a father-and-son talk as Moe (back, Rod Gnapp) listens in Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Awake and Sing! Photo by David AllenBOTTOM: Playwright D.H.H. (Pun Bandhu, left) takes a lesson on the American dream from his father, H.Y.H. (Francis Jue, right) in the Bay [...]
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Fathers and sons: Aurora’s Awake and TheatreWorks’ Yellow
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Charles Dean, Clifford Odets, David Henry Hwang, Francis Jue, Joy Carlin, TheatreWorks, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Aug 09 - 2 Comments
Delighted by `Ruined,’ Nottage nabs Pulitzer
Archived in the category: Bertolt Brecht, David Henry Hwang, Gina Gionfriddo, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Photo by the LA Times
Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined, inspired by Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The play, about a Congolese brothel run by a woman named Mama Nadi, is about a country torn apart by civil war and about a woman who is [...]
Berkeley Rep cancels `Yellow Face,’ tours Hoch
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Danny Hoch, David Henry Hwang, Maurice Sendak, Sarah Jones, Tony Kushner, Tony Taccone, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 13 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
The 2008-09 season hasn’t even begun and already changes are afoot.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced yesterday that it will postpone David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face, which was to have concluded the season.
Here’s from the press release: ” The theatre hopes to present the show in the fall of 2009 and then tour its production to other [...]
