From The San Jose Mercury-News: It's interesting that the only two plays to win the Pulitzer Prize without having first been produced in New York, Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle and Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, both met with less-than-rapturous receptions when they did finally reach Broadway. Hmm. Could it be the New York critics have gotten a bit too used to anointing the Pulitzer winners themselves? In any event, we're please to report that Schenkkan has found himself a home at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. (Registration required. Use ours if you like. E-mail address: escript@singlelane.com / Password: e-script)

 

From Salon: Boy, she looks like her dad in the picture shown here. But on the whole, Rebecca Miller would prefer to talk less about her father, Arthur Miller, and more about her new movie, The Ballad of Jack and Rose.

 

From National Public Radio: Here's the audio interview with Rebecca Miller mentioned in the story above.

Sunday, March 27, 2005

 

From The Village Voice: Playwrights take on the Catholic Church. But the news isn't all bad for the devout: even the guy who organized protests against Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi says doubting Thomases can be useful.