Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage appears in the following:

Why Lynn Nottage Cashed Out Her 401(k)

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The acclaimed playwright tells me why she left theater for a few years, and how quitting her day job and making an investment in herself helped her return. 

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Lynn Nottage: Unexpected Optimist

Monday, January 03, 2022

Playwright Lynn Nottage breaks down her remarkable career and shares how, as an optimist at heart, she finds the light and resilience in unexpected stories.

Lynn Nottage & Miranda Haymon on 'The Watering Hole'

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Playwright Lynn Nottage and director and co-creator Miranda Haymon join us to discuss 'The Watering Hole,' a new collaborative production currently on view at the Signature Theatre.

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Lucille Lortel Nominees: 'The Secret Life of Bees'

Friday, May 01, 2020

[REBROADCAST] Playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik, and actor Saycon Sengbloh discuss "The Secret Life of Bees."

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'The Secret Life of Bees' Closing Sunday

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik, and actor Saycon Sengbloh discuss "The Secret Life of Bees" playing at the Linda Gross Theater through July 21.

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'The Secret Life of Bees'

Friday, June 21, 2019

Playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik, and actor Saycon Sengbloh discuss "The Secret Life of Bees" playing at the Linda Gross Theater through July 21.

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'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark'

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Lynn Nottage & Kamilah Forbes on “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.”

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'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark'

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Lynn Nottage & Kamilah Forbes on “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.”

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Lynn Nottage, Elephants and the True Cost of Desire

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Playwright Lynn Nottage, director Jo Bonney and actor Sahr Ngaujah discuss Nottage's play "Mlima’s Tale," at The Public Theater through May.

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Lynn Nottage and Kate Whoriskey Talk 'Sweat' on Broadway

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

WNYC's Rebecca Carroll sits down for an unconventional conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed director. 

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Life in the Rust Belt on Broadway

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Life in the Rust Belt is the topic of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage's debut Broadway play, 'Sweat.'

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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Lynn Nottage talks about her critically acclaimed comedy, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” which stars Sanaa Lathan. The play draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” is playing through June 12 at Second Stage Theatre.

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Spark: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Art

Friday, February 11, 2011

This month we're celebrating 360's first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. In...

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Lynn Nottage

Friday, May 15, 2009

"How does love continue to flourish in the face of such ugliness and brutality?" That's the question that drove playwright Lynn Nottage to write "Ruined" which just won the Pulitzer Prize. It's set at a bar/brothel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the middle of ...

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"Ruined"

Friday, March 06, 2009

Lynn Nottage's play "Ruined" is a haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi (played by Saidah Arrika Ekulona), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart ...

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