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Actors Randy Hunt and Tyler Costigan host this show where they take a closer look at the plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama since it was first awarded in 1918. We'll provide a brief introduction of the play, the playwright, and a synopsis. We'll then discuss how the play was received, it's influence on/by society, notable cast/crew, stories, scandals, fun facts, and some of our favorite lines.
Episodes
January 27, 2024 • 21 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley.
From Encyclopedia.com: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexua...
From Encyclopedia.com: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexua...
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December 11, 2022 • 23 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1930 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly.
From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during...
From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during...
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November 8, 2022 • 39 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1928 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill.
From Encyclopedia.com: The play covers a period of twenty-five years in the lives of mostly upper-middle-class East Coast characters. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness.
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From Encyclopedia.com: The play covers a period of twenty-five years in the lives of mostly upper-middle-class East Coast characters. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness.
This is ...
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February 20, 2022 • 51 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2007 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire.
CONTENT WARNING: Death of young child, grief, suicide, drug abuse
We were thrilled to have Julie Arnold Lisnet with us as a special guest to discuss this play.
Like all of our podcast episodes, this episode contains a lot of spoilers. If you have yet to read or see this play, please be aware of this.
Corrections: During t...
CONTENT WARNING: Death of young child, grief, suicide, drug abuse
We were thrilled to have Julie Arnold Lisnet with us as a special guest to discuss this play.
Like all of our podcast episodes, this episode contains a lot of spoilers. If you have yet to read or see this play, please be aware of this.
Corrections: During t...
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January 17, 2022 • 23 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Street Scene by Elmer Rice.
From Stageagent.com: The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-story walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene. With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behavior, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become da...
From Stageagent.com: The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-story walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene. With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behavior, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become da...
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November 21, 2021 • 29 mins
Note: This episode contains explicit language.
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2008 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
Synopsis from StageAgent.com: August: Osage County centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears. The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined...
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2008 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
Synopsis from StageAgent.com: August: Osage County centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears. The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined...
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October 24, 2021 • 22 mins
Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, prostitution, alcohol consumption, war
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Ruined by Lynn Nottage.
Synopsis from StageAgent.com: Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows Mama Nadi, a businesswoman who is trying to stay afloat in a world torn apart by civil war. The war has ravaged her country, and espe...
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Ruined by Lynn Nottage.
Synopsis from StageAgent.com: Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows Mama Nadi, a businesswoman who is trying to stay afloat in a world torn apart by civil war. The war has ravaged her country, and espe...
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October 10, 2021 • 17 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1927 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green.
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In this story, [playwright] Paul Green, a product himself of a rural upbringing in North Carolina, tells the post Civil War story of the deeply troubled young man, son of a tyrannical white land owner and a poor black woman, who sees education as the means of raising himself and his Afri...
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In this story, [playwright] Paul Green, a product himself of a rural upbringing in North Carolina, tells the post Civil War story of the deeply troubled young man, son of a tyrannical white land owner and a poor black woman, who sees education as the means of raising himself and his Afri...
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September 1, 2021 • 30 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2011 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris.
Synopsis from Stageagent.com: Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece. These two scenes, fifty years apart, are both set in the same modest bung...
Synopsis from Stageagent.com: Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece. These two scenes, fifty years apart, are both set in the same modest bung...
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August 15, 2021 • 21 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1926 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Craig's Wife by George Kelly.
Synopsis from Playbill.com: A materialistic woman's marriage crumbles because of her obsession with preserving her possessions.
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Join us as we discuss Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris , winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Synopsis from Stageagent.com: Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp sat...
Synopsis from Playbill.com: A materialistic woman's marriage crumbles because of her obsession with preserving her possessions.
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Join us as we discuss Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris , winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Synopsis from Stageagent.com: Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp sat...
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July 25, 2021 • 23 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2012 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes.
Synopsis from Dramatists.com: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cybe...
Synopsis from Dramatists.com: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cybe...
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July 18, 2021 • 24 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard.
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In the 1920's, Napa Valley middle-aged wine-grower Tony wants to get married and decides to propose by letter to a waitress in San Francisco named Amy who waited on him once. He sends her a picture of his good looking young farmhand Joe instead of himself, which creates unfore...
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In the 1920's, Napa Valley middle-aged wine-grower Tony wants to get married and decides to propose by letter to a waitress in San Francisco named Amy who waited on him once. He sends her a picture of his good looking young farmhand Joe instead of himself, which creates unfore...
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June 27, 2021 • 19 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2013 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar.
Synopsis from Lincoln Center Theatre: DISGRACED is the story of Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. When Amir and his wife Emily, a white artist influenced by Islamic imagery, host a dinner party, what starts out as a f...
Synopsis from Lincoln Center Theatre: DISGRACED is the story of Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. When Amir and his wife Emily, a white artist influenced by Islamic imagery, host a dinner party, what starts out as a f...
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May 23, 2021 • 23 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1924 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes.
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: When Sid Hunt returns from WWI, he announces his plans to marry his sweetheart, Jude Lowry, much to the displeasure of his brother Rufe, who is also in love with Jude. Jude's brother Andy has an old grudge against the family, and after some illicit drinking, he decides to murder Sid...
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: When Sid Hunt returns from WWI, he announces his plans to marry his sweetheart, Jude Lowry, much to the displeasure of his brother Rufe, who is also in love with Jude. Jude's brother Andy has an old grudge against the family, and after some illicit drinking, he decides to murder Sid...
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May 9, 2021 • 22 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2014 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, The Flick, by Annie Baker.
Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. A hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
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Synopsis from Concord Theatricals: In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. A hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
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April 25, 2021 • 22 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler dig in to a very special play, Icebound by Owen Davis. Why is it so special? The play takes place in Randy's hometown (population < 2000)!
Synopsis from wikipedia: The Jordan family is on their farm in Veazie, Maine in October 1922. They await the reading of the will by Judge John Bradford of the family matriarch who has just died. Much to the family's dismay, the farm and all of the money has be...
Synopsis from wikipedia: The Jordan family is on their farm in Veazie, Maine in October 1922. They await the reading of the will by Judge John Bradford of the family matriarch who has just died. Much to the family's dismay, the farm and all of the money has be...
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April 11, 2021 • 21 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler take a look at the 2015 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Synopsis from stageagent.com: Walter “Pops” Washington has had enough. His landlord won’t leave him alone, his wife recently passed away, and the liquor store can’t keep up with his thirst. Pops’ last living relative, his son Junior, has recently moved back to Pops’ house with his gir...
Synopsis from stageagent.com: Walter “Pops” Washington has had enough. His landlord won’t leave him alone, his wife recently passed away, and the liquor store can’t keep up with his thirst. Pops’ last living relative, his son Junior, has recently moved back to Pops’ house with his gir...
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March 28, 2021 • 25 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler take a look at the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill.
Synopsis from playbill.com: A weary former prostitute seeks out her estranged sea-captain father hoping to find forgiveness from him while hiding her past from a stoker she loves.
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Join us as we discuss the play Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, which w...
Synopsis from playbill.com: A weary former prostitute seeks out her estranged sea-captain father hoping to find forgiveness from him while hiding her past from a stoker she loves.
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Join us as we discuss the play Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, which w...
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March 14, 2021 • 26 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler take a look at the 2017 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sweat by Lynn Nottage.
Synopsis from dramatists.com: Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find th...
Synopsis from dramatists.com: Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find th...
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February 28, 2021 • 30 mins
In this episode, Randy and Tyler take a look at the 1921 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale -- who is also the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Note: We apologize -- Tyler's mic had some minor buzzing issues in this episode as well as the last. He's got a brand new mic now, so the next episode will be better!
Synopsis from theatremania.com: Miss Lulu Bett, a 28-year-old spinster...
Note: We apologize -- Tyler's mic had some minor buzzing issues in this episode as well as the last. He's got a brand new mic now, so the next episode will be better!
Synopsis from theatremania.com: Miss Lulu Bett, a 28-year-old spinster...
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