Donald Margulies News

The Pulitzer Prize Board has just announced that Fat Ham has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other finalists included: Selling Kabul, and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.

The Pulitzer Prize Board today will present the 2022 award winners for Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music. Who will win this year? Tune in right here at 3pm to watch the announcement live!

Petaluma’s premier theater company, Cinnabar Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Nathan Cummings and Executive Director Diane Dragone, is proud to announce their 2022/2023 season lineup, celebrating their 50th anniversary. 

Petaluma's premier theater company, Cinnabar Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Nathan Cummings and Executive Director Diane Dragone, is proud to has announced the lineup, celebrating their 50th anniversary.

And... Out of the Blue – A Miraculous Musical. to be presented at Hollywood Fringe Festival. Featuring book, music and lyrics by Eli Hans. Directed by Meredith Grundei. Produced by Out of the Blue Productions. Starring Eli Hans with Joseph Bennett.

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected five finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing playwrights of the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2021.

Black Box PAC, Bergen County's incubator for new and underproduced works by acclaimed writers, will begin 2022 with an encore of it's regional premiere workshop production of 1+1 by Eric Bogosian from January 6 - 23.

IAMA Theatre Company has selected a diverse set of playwrights to join its third annual Class of '22 Under 30 Playwrights Lab. Emerging Los Angeles-based writers Sowmya Ashokkumar, A'raelle Flynn-Bolden, Karyn Peyton, Ebony Priddie, Dylan Schifrin and Daysha Veronica each brings a unique voice and point of view to the IAMA table.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced a robust slate of playwright commissions through Manhattan Theatre Club's new partnership with the Edgerton Foundation, as well as a new round of commissions supported by ongoing partnerships with Bobbie Olsen and other donors.

DIY Theatre has taken inspiration from the past year and a half of the pandemic and is putting unpredictability center stage in the first show of their season, 52 Pick-Up! Written by TJ Dawe and Calgarian Rita Bozi, directed by Shelby Reinitz, 52 Pick-Up marks the return of in-person performances for DIY Theatre running October 28 to October 31.

Acclaimed playwright Eric Bogosian (Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Talk Radio; Suburbia, etc.) has a new play, and you can see it at Black Box PAC this November!

Courtesy of acclaimed playwright Eric Bogosian, Black Box PAC will produce a workshop production of the new play 1+1.

Tait Ruppert from Maplewood marks his Chatham Players directorial debut with directing this play. “Donald Margulies’ brilliant play illustrates the sometimes hidden travails, traumas and joys of moving from one phase of life to another” Ruppert added.

The Chatham Community Players hosts its 27th annual Jersey Voices One-Act Festival. This year's production includes seven original short plays written by New Jersey playwrights.

The Muse Collective will stream the world premiere of Peter Gray’s THE KARENS beginning August 13, 2021. Muse Collective’s founder and artistic director Michael Alvarez directs the cast of Morgan Danielle Day, Felicia Santiago and LaurenSage Browning. Got the chance to chat with Peter on his KARENS and his creatively productive relationship with Michael and his Muse Collective.

Stars of stage and screen participated in the week-long festival. Keynote presenters included Jeff Calhoun, Ken Davenport, Frank Galati, Kristofer Geddie, Philip Hernandez, Chilina Kennedy, Rob McClure, and Mandy Moore.

Like the Hermitage Greenfield Prize – which will soon be celebrating its 14th season and rotates annually between the disciplines of music, theater, and visual art – the winner of the Hermitage Major Theater Award (HMTA) will be nominated and selected by a jury of nationally recognized arts leaders in the field of theater.

DONALD MARGULIES is in conversation with Executive Producer & Artistic Associate, STEPHEN KITSAKOS on Wednesday, June 16th from 6-7PM EST. The weekly livestream program invites theater, television, film, literary & visual arts personalities online for a lively, unscripted hour-long conversation produced by The Studios.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) by Donald Margulies, directed by Daisy Walker and starring Rodney Witherspoon II, Jackie Davis, and Jackson Goldberg. Performances are June 30 – July 25 at 7:00 p.m.

It was just announced by the Pulitzer Prize organization that Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King has officially won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year's finalists included Circle Jerk by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley and Stew by Zora Howard.