MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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MAYER WAKEFIELD interviews Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage and cast members from her musical The Secret Life of Bees
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
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Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
FEW writers have managed to capture the zeitgeist of 21st century America like Lynn Nottage did in her “uncompromising and frequently disquieting” 2015 play Sweat which earned undivided praise in London, New York and, crucially, from the residents of the rustbelt town of Reading, Pennsylvania, where it is set.
It also earned her a second Pulitzer prize for drama, making her the only female writer with that distinction.
Her ability to get under the skin of the times through deftly constructed characters, humorous observations and a knack for coaxing dramatic tension make her one of the most in-demand writers on the planet right now.
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