Bruce Norris

Ethan Hawke to take on 'Macbeth' at Lincoln Center

2013-06-14 06:00:00

Ethan Hawke has a taste for the macabre. More specifically: “Macbeth.” The actor will star as the king of Scotland in the Shakespeare tragedy at Lincoln Center this winter. Jack O'Brien, whom Hawke worked with on 2006/2007’s "The Coast...

Tony Awards 2013, 'Kinky Boots' takes best musical title

2013-06-09 20:22:00

The Tonys live... 8:22 p.m.: "Kinky Boots" was named best new musical, bringing its awards haul to six, the most of any production at the 67th annual Tony Awards. The musical, based on the 2005 British movie about a drag queen who saves a shoe factory,...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter among Whiting Award winners

2012-10-23 15:00:00

Four playwrights are among this year's 10 winners of the Whiting Writers' Awards, which honors writers in various fields. The playwrights are Danai Gurira and Meg Miroshnik, both of whom reside in Los Angeles, and Samuel D. Hunter and Mona Mansour, who...

Bruce Norris condemns use of blackface for 'Clybourne Park'

2012-10-17 10:50:00

Bruce Norris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Clybourne Park," has published a letter condemning a production of the drama that had been planned for a theater company in Berlin. The writer said he withdrew rights to the production after learning...

Mark Taper season includes plays by Bruce Norris, Sebastian Barry

2012-08-22 11:42:00

The 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum will feature plays by Bruce Norris and Sebastian Barry, as well as revivals of classics by August Wilson and Joe Orton. Actor Brian Dennehy will be featured in Barry's "The Steward of Christendom."� In all, the...

Tony Awards 2012: 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris wins best play

2012-06-10 19:28:00

"Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama by Bruce Norris, won the Tony for new play. The critically acclaimed play, which ran at Playwrights Horizons in New York, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Mark Taper...

Tony Awards 2012: The complete nominees and winners list

2012-06-10 00:00:00

Here is the full list of Tony nominations for 2012 (WINNERS are noted): Play "Clybourne Park,"� Bruce Norris WINNER "Other Desert Cities,"� Jon Robin Baitz "Peter and the Starcatcher,"� Rick Elice "Venus in Fur,"� David Ives Musical "Leap of Faith"...

'Matilda the Musical' wins big at Olivier Awards in London

2012-04-16 16:32:18

Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners

2012-06-10 22:09:00

Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...

Tony Awards 2012: No clear front-runners for Tuesday's nominations

2012-04-30 07:00:00

This story has been updated. If there's one thing that Broadway insiders can agree on this season, it's that there is no clear front-runner for the Tony Awards. The season lacks the blockbuster Tony magnets of recent years, such as "The Book of Mormon,""...

'Clybourne Park' moving to Broadway after Mark Taper Forum run

2012-01-18 16:33:15

's 1959 drama "A Raisin in the Sun." "Clybourne Park," which also won the 2011 Olivier Award for best new play, will premiere at the Mark Taper Forum on Jan. 25 (with previews starting Jan. 11).

2011-12-31 12:42:59

She may not be a household name, but Pam MacKinnon ranks among the leading theater directors in the country, having worked with top playwrights including Edward Albee, Theresa Rebeck, Gina Gionfriddo and Richard Greenberg. This month, MacKinnon will direct the L.A.

2011-12-28 12:08:51

Bruce Norris' brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning play -- a withering exploration of how the history of Chicago neighborhoods is inextricably linked to the dirty secrets of racism -- belatedly arrived home at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

2011-12-09 09:42:07