The 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Lynne Nottage (pictured above) for her play Sweat, a searing drama about the ravages of America’s ind…
"It's really raw and really real." That is the quick summation offered by Johanna Day, one of the actresses helping tell the story of what happened in Reading, Pennsylvania when the economic…
There's a certain irony in watching Sweat, a play about the annihilation of the American working class, in corporate-sponsored palatial theater charging $80+ a pop for full-price seats, not …
For insight into why blue-collar America is so riled up, fed up and downright distraught in 2016, "Sweat" makes for " if nothing more novel " a useful and colorful bases-covering restatement…
Permit me this before my actual review of Lynn Nottage’s bold, brave play SWEAT which is receiving a splendidly searing, raw, and real production at Arena (Co-commissioned with the Ore…
Lynn Nottage's Sweat masterfully explores the experience of a group of workers in Reading, PA, against the shifting economic realities of the year 2000. Recession and the de-industrializa…
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage spent two years visiting Reading, Pa., to research her new play. Sweat explores how industrial decline affected workers in the former steel and textile tow…
Kimberly Scott has spent 30 years honing her craft in a distinguished and successful career in film, television, and theatre. A Tony Award nominee for her performance as "Molly" in August Wi…
Few Broadway shows have showcased dancers eligible for Medicare. Even fewer have called out the lie " the pervasive, soul-sucking, long lived lie " that a professional dancer is all washed u…
Few Broadway shows have showcased dancers eligible for Medicare. Even fewer have called out the lie " the pervasive, soul-sucking, long-lived lie " that a professional dancer is all washed u…
Elizabeth Jarrett and Kris Pilcher stand in a cavernous, 70-foot-long room of a run-down 100-year-old building in South Downtown. Today it is pitch black (electricity
