2025 Lucille Lortel Special Award Recipients Include Playwright Alice Childress
The Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York theater award that exclusively honors off-Broadway, have announced Special Award recipients for 2025. Playwright Alice Childress (1916-1994) will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwrights' Sidewalk. Raised during the Harlem Renaissance, Childress became the first African-American woman to have a professionally produced play in New York in 1952 with Gold Through the Tree…