Katori Hall Wins 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Hurt Village
The 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Katori Hall for her play Hurt Village. Now in its 33rd year, the prize is given annually to recognize outstanding works written by women for the English-speaking theater. Hall received $20,000 and a signed print by Willem de Kooning at a private reception held in New York on February 28. Based on a real-life housing project, Hurt Village explores in vivid an…