Chicano playwright David A. Tucker II wins the 2023 National Latine Playwrights Award for his black comedy, The Nude. He will be featured at the inaugural National Latine Playwrights Festival in June 2024, hosted by the Arizona Theatre Company.
All of these theaters had programming that was - you know, sort of your tent poles on the mainstage, your occasional blockbuster musical. On the second stage, there was riskier work, new work being developed that might not appeal to a 700-seat audience. I thought that was incredible - you're doing these blockbuster Broadway musicals, the best of the best plays, and then new work that is exciting and thrilling. And that sort of became part of my DNA as I was thinking about directing.
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Northlight Interplay
Northlight Theatre s Interplay New Play Development Program virtual readings continue with Wright/Rand, a two-hander by Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson. The play is about the friendship between architect Frank Lloyd Wright and writer/philosopher Ayn Rand whose The Fountainhead protagonist was inspired by Wright. Artistic director BJ Jones plays Wright opposite Tracy Michelle Arnold s Rand. David Ira Goldstein directs.
Premieres at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18, followed by a live, post-show discussion. Available on demand through Thursday, April 22. Admission is free, but donations are accepted and registration is required. See northlight.org/events/interplay-wright-rand.
Women of Steel
Steel Beam Theatre continues its Women of Steel series with a virtual performance devoted to Amelia Earhart. Leslie Goddard portrays the famed aviator. The first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart disappeared while attempting a solo flight around the wo