Description
14 diverse playwrights and subjects. The diversity is only natural because the most exciting theater is often (not always!) about the most urgent issues in the world it reflects. Works exploring race and gender are prominent, for instance, because racism and sexism remain prominent. It’s a theater that is often more directly engaged in unpacking large-scale social issues than we at first expected. But it’s also a collection marked by imaginative boldness.
In this SDG, we get to know each playwright shortly and discuss one of his/her plays-in most cases one that made him/her known in the theater world.
Weekly Topics
The Designated Mourner 2000, Wallace Shawn
Topdog/Underdog 2001, Suzan-lori parks 2002 Pulitzer
Proof 2001, David Auburn 2001 Pulitzer
Anna in the Tropics 2003, Nilo Cruz 2003 Pulitzer
Eurydice 2006, Sarah Ruhl
Yellow Face 2007, David Henry Hwang 2008 Obie
August: Osage County 2007, Tracy Letts 2008 Pulitzer and Tony
Ruined 2008, Lynn Nottage 2009 Pulitzer and Obie winner
Clybourne Park 2010, Bruce Norris 2011 Pulitzer 20 Tony for. Best play
The Realistic Joneses 2012, Will Eno 2015 Drama Desk
The Flick 2013, Annie Baker. 2014 Pulitzer
An Octoroon 2014, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins 2014 Obie
The Humans 2015, Stephen Karam 2016 Tony award
The Wolves 2016, Sarah DeLappe 2017 Pulitzer finalist 2017 Obie
