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53-663: Donald Margulies (born September 2, 1954) is an American playwright and academic. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends . Margulies attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York , and graduated from Purchase College where he received a BFA in Visual Arts. Margulies lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut . He

106-581: A Burns Mantle Best Play of 2004–2005. The play was directed by Daniel Sullivan, and its original cast at the South Coast Rep was Adam Arkin , Arye Gross , Allan Miller , Ari Graynor , Mimi Lieber, Kevin Isola and Dana Reeve (whose role was played on Broadway by Polly Draper ). Dinner with Friends , which received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama , was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville (Kentucky), where it had its world premiere at

159-522: A 2010 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her performance. Lavin had previously played the role of Ruth Steiner in May - June 1999 at the Geffen Playhouse in a production co-starring Samantha Mathis , directed by Gilbert Cates , which was later re-produced for television broadcast by PBS Hollywood Presents in 2002. The play has had many productions all over the country and around

212-668: A MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He was playwright-in-residence at the Sundance Playwrights Conference for three summers; Collected Stories was developed there, as was an early version of Sight Unseen . Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America . English Department (2008). "Donald Margulies: Adjunct Professor of English" . Yale University . Retrieved December 21, 2008 . Pulitzer Prize for Drama Until 2007, eligibility for

265-475: A Musical, Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations, Special Tony Awards and the eight design prizes. The Tony Administration Committee decided on April 30, 2010 that the scores of American Idiot and Fela! were ineligible for Tony Award nominations because fewer than 50% of their scores were written for the stage productions. On May 14, 2010, the Tony Award committee announced a disqualification of

318-773: A Musical. The CBS television network broadcast the event, which was also simulcast live to the Clear Channel Spectacolor HD Screen in Times Square as well as on the official Tony Awards website. The director of the telecast, Glenn Weiss, won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety. Among the highlights was presenter Kristin Chenoweth and Hayes poking fun at

371-430: A Play, Diane Davis and Outstanding Revival) and for two 2014 Drama Desk Awards (Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Diane Davis). Shirley, a Jewish housewife and mother from Brooklyn, returns from the dead to reconcile with her family. Her husband Mort is grieving and teen son Artie can't forgive her for leaving him. What's Wrong with This Picture? was first produced Off-Broadway by

424-449: A Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. The play was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Loman Family Picnic was first produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) at City Center Stage II, from June 6, 1989 to July 2, 1989, with Marcia Jean Kurtz and Larry Block , directed by Barnet Kellman . The MTC revival ran from October 28, 1993 to January 9, 1994 at New York City Center Stage I. Directed by Lynne Meadow,

477-490: A certain extent Mr. Foster’s dismay at this year’s star-glutted Tony awards. ... It’s possible that if the Tony administrators had not kicked the journalists out of the voting pool, there might have been a few more worthy winners." Isherwood called the proliferation of Hollywood stars on Broadway "ominous", claiming that projects from last season featuring film actors such as Jude Law 's Hamlet and A Steady Rain monopolized

530-436: A nomination in the "Best Costume Design in a Musical" category for Ragtime , stating that "...Santo Loquasto's designs for the revival of Ragtime are predominantly those from the original 1998 production, and therefore do not meet the Tony rule which states, work that 'substantially duplicate(s)' work from a prior production is ineligible." Source: Tony Awards Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Most of

583-566: A presentation of choreography. Additionally, the nominees for Best Play and Best Play Revival were presented by the performers from their respective plays. Some of the Tony Awards, dubbed "The Creative Arts Tony Awards" were awarded prior to the CBS telecast. The presentation was shown on a live webcast . Hosts for this portion of the ceremony were Karen Olivo and Gregory Jbara . Awards presented at this special ceremony included Best Book of

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636-507: A recent Newsweek article questioning the openly gay Hayes' believability at playing heterosexual by passionately kissing. Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2009–10 season before April 30, 2010 are eligible. Presenters included: The show opened with a medley from most of the musicals that opened during the season, and included, as described by The New York Times , punk music, Frank Sinatra songs, Afrobeat rhythms, and early rock ’n’ roll. There were performances by

689-516: Is Debby's boyfriend. The Model Apartment premiered at Los Angeles Theatre Center in November 1988, directed by Roberta Levitow featuring Chloe Webb as "Debby", Milton Selzer and Erica Yohn as her parents and Zero Hubbard. The play opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages , running from October 11, 1995 to November 12, 1995. Directed by Lisa Peterson, the cast featured Lynn Cohen (Lola), Akili Prince, Paul Stolarsky and Roberta Wallach. Margulies won

742-872: Is a Professor in the Practice of English and Theatre & Performance Studies at Yale University . Margulies' notable works include The Country House (2014), Time Stands Still (2009) and Brooklyn Boy (2004). Sight Unseen and Collected Stories were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1992, and 1997, respectively; Dinner with Friends was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Margulies said of Sight Unseen , "It's about loss, like most of my plays, and about identity." Ben Brantley noted themes in his works: "The central motifs in Brooklyn Boy have always been visible in Mr. Margulies's work, from

795-798: Is a one-act play inspired by the short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz and was his New York debut as a playwright. The play was commissioned by the Jewish Repertory Theater which produced the play in February 1982 with direction by Florence Stanley. His play God of Vengeance , based on the Yiddish classic by Sholem Asch , was produced at ACT Theatre ( Seattle ) in April 2000, and in August 2002 at

848-533: Is the only person to have been named a finalist thrice without winning. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeanine Tesori are the only people to be named as a finalist twice for writing and composing a musical, with Miranda winning in 2016. 64th Tony Awards The 64th Annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 13, 2010, held again at Radio City Music Hall in New York City . The host was Sean Hayes . These awards paid tribute to Broadway productions during

901-643: The Berkshires , where Anna, an actress, is appearing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival . She is entertaining her son, a failed actor, Elliot; a handsome famous actor, Michael; her son-in-law, Walter, who was married to her deceased daughter, and his girlfriend/fiancé, Nell and his daughter Susie. The Country House opened on Broadway on October 2, 2014, at the Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It

954-730: The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play , the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Play and was selected a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1999–2000. It went on to have a long run in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Élysées, and productions in London, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Tokyo, Mumbai, Seoul, Tel Aviv and Istanbul. In 2002 it

1007-782: The Tony Award for Best Play or the Tony Award for Best Musical Ten musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2020s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin 's Of Thee I Sing (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein 's South Pacific (1950), Bock & Harnick 's Fiorello! (1960), Frank Loesser 's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), Marvin Hamlisch , Edward Kleban , James Kirkwood, Jr. , and Nicholas Dante 's A Chorus Line (1976), Stephen Sondheim 's and James Lapine 's Sunday in

1060-448: The Williamstown Theatre Festival , directed by Gordon Edelstein and starring Ron Leibman. Coney Island Christmas , adapted from the short story “The Loudest Voice” by Grace Paley, was commissioned and first produced by the Geffen Playhouse in November 2012. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo the cast featured Arye Gross and Isabella Acres in this "Jewish Christmas show". Margulies has written pilots and episodes of several television shows. In

1113-466: The 1980s, he was under contract to Norman Lear 's company to develop television pilots, and was a producer-writer for the television series Baby Boom. He has adapted a wide range of material for film and television, both fiction (including Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides , Tom Wolfe ’s A Man in Full , The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ) and non-fiction (notably American Lion: Andrew Jackson in

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1166-433: The 1995-96 OBIE Award for Playwriting, and the play was a 1995-96 Drama Desk nominee for Best Play and a Dramatists' Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist. The play was revived Off-Broadway by Primary Stages, from September 24, 2013 (previews), officially on October 15. Directed by Evan Cabnet, the cast featured Mark Blum, Diane Davis and Kathryn Grody . It was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards (Outstanding Lead Actress in

1219-668: The 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays . A revised version was produced in October 1998 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California . The play opened Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theatre in November 1999, where it played 654 performances. In addition to the Pulitzer, Dinner with Friends received an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Citation, The Dramatists' Guild/ Hull-Warriner Award ,

1272-539: The 19th Century, focuses on "Louis de Rougemont" who was shipwrecked on a Coral Sea Island and lived with Australian aborigines, or so he tells his listeners in England. The play made its world premiere in the September 2007 Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, where it starred Gregory Itzin and was directed by Bart DeLorenzo . The play went on to productions at the Geffen Playhouse, where it again

1325-405: The 2009–2010 season. The cut off-date for Tony eligibility was April 29, 2010, and the nominations were announced on May 4. The play Red won 6 awards, including Best Play, most of the night. The musical Memphis won four awards, including Best Musical. Fences won three awards, including Best Revival of a Play. La Cage aux Folles also won three awards, including Best Revival of

1378-842: The Cort by Christina Ricci ), and was directed by Daniel Sullivan . The play was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Play and was a Burns Mantle Best Play of 2009–2010. Linney was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Time Stands Still had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse ( Los Angeles ) in February 2009 which had commissioned it. Directed by Sullivan, the Geffen premiere featured Silverstone, Anna Gunn , David Harbour and Robin Thomas . Its European premiere took place in Stockholm in 2009. The play, set in

1431-700: The Drama Prize ran from March 1 to March 2 to reflect the Broadway "season" rather than the calendar year that governed most other Pulitzer Prizes. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board can overrule the jury's choice; in 1986 , the board's opposition to the jury's choice of the CIVIL warS resulted in no award being given. In 1955 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured

1484-508: The Drama Pulitzer was awarded 91 times; none were given in 15 years and it was never split. The most recipients of the prize in one year was five, when Michael Bennett , James Kirkwood, Jr. , Nicholas Dante , Marvin Hamlisch , and Edward Kleban shared the 1976 prize for the musical A Chorus Line . † marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Play . * marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical . ≠ marks nominees of

1537-699: The Manhattan Theatre Club Stage 73, from January 29, 1985 to February 23, 1985, directed by Claudia Weill and starring Madeline Kahn as Shirley. It was next produced Off-Broadway by the Jewish Repertory Theatre from June 9, 1990 to August 5, 1990, directed by Larry Arrick. The play ran on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre from November 15, 1994 in previews, officially on December 8, 1994 and closed on December 18, 1994. Directed by Joe Mantello ,

1590-589: The Orpheum Theatre on March 26, 1992 where it ran for a combined total of 293 performances. It was directed by Michael Bloom and starred Dennis Boutsikaris , Deborah Hedwall, Jon DeVries and, in the supporting role of a German art critic, Laura Linney. Linney played "Patricia" in the play's Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theatre, running from May 6, 2004 (previews) to July 25, 2004. The cast featured Ben Shenkman , Byron Jennings and Ana Reeder, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Linney received

1643-482: The Park with George (1985), Jonathan Larson 's Rent (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt 's Next to Normal (2010), Lin-Manuel Miranda 's Hamilton (2016), and Michael R. Jackson 's A Strange Loop (2020). Though it did not win for Drama, Oklahoma! was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Of note, South Pacific won the 1950 Pulitzer for Drama but its source material, James Michener's Tales of

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1696-554: The South Pacific , also won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Sunday in the Park with George and Next to Normal are the only musicals that won the Pulitzer Prize and did not also win the Tony Award for Best Musical ; the latter won the authors Tonys for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations . Of Thee I Sing opened before the Tony Awards existed. The award goes to the playwright, although production of

1749-747: The Tour . The film, released in 2015, was directed by James Ponsoldt and stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky. The film received widespread positive reviews from critics, with a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes . Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts , the New York Foundation for the Arts , the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and

1802-528: The White House by Jon Meacham , The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s “Ulysses" by Kevin Birmingham, and biographies of David O. Selznick , Robert Capa and Keith Moon ), all of which are unproduced. Margulies adapted the memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself : A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace , by David Lipsky , as a feature film screenplay, The End of

1855-455: The cast featured Christine Baranski and Peter Friedman , The play was nominated for the 1994-95 Drama Desk Award, Best Revival of a Play and was a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1988–1989. Lola and Max are in their 60s and are Holocaust survivors. They have moved from Brooklyn to a condominium in Florida. Debby is their overweight and messy daughter, late 30s. Neil is 15, a black young man who

1908-844: The cast featured Faith Prince , Alan Rosenberg, Jerry Stiller , and David Moscow. Found a Peanut was first produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival in June 1984, where it was directed by Claudia Weill and starred Robert Joy, Evan Handler, Peter McNicol, Greg Germann, Robin Bartlett, Nealla Spano, Kevin Geer and Jonathan Walker. Gifted Children was produced by the Jewish Repertory Theater (New York City) in December 1983, directed by Joan Vail Thorne and starring Dinah Manoff and Zohra Lampert . Luna Park

1961-624: The casts of the musicals nominated for both Best Musical and Revival: American Idiot , Fela! , Memphis , Million Dollar Quartet , La Cage aux Folles , A Little Night Music , Everyday Rapture and Ragtime . Other performers were Lea Michele , who sang "Don't Rain On My Parade" and Matthew Morrison , who sang "All I Need Is the Girl", and punk rock band Green Day who performed " Know Your Enemy / Holiday ". The casts of Come Fly Away and Promises, Promises were included in

2014-512: The most of any play or musical this season. Film actors won an unusual number of awards this season, with Denzel Washington , Scarlett Johansson , Viola Davis , Eddie Redmayne and Catherine Zeta-Jones among the winners. So many film actors appeared on Broadway last year that theatre actor Hunter Foster created a Facebook page called "Give the Tonys Back to Broadway" . The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood wrote, "I share to

2067-761: The musical in question opened in New York during either the preceding calendar year or the preceding Broadway season. The following individuals received two or more Pulitzer Prizes for Drama: The following individuals received two or more nominations: Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat. Jon Robin Baitz, Gina Gionfriddo, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Richard Greenberg, Tina Howe, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam, Sarah Ruhl and Jeanine Tesori have each been named finalists twice without winning. David Henry Hwang

2120-492: The non-competitive awards were announced on April 21, 2010. They are: The musical Fela! and the revival of La Cage aux Folles , each received eleven nominations, the most of any production, with each winning three awards. The musical Memphis won four awards, including Best Musical. The revival of Fences earned ten nominations, the most nominations ever received by a play revival, and won three awards. The new play Red received seven nominations and won six awards,

2173-421: The play is also taken into account. In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist and book writer are generally the recipients. An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution

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2226-507: The prize jury into presenting the Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees ("amateurishly constructed... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious"), instead of Clifford Odets ' The Flowering Peach (their preferred choice) or The Bad Seed , their second choice. Edward Albee 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2279-617: The willed amnesia of the self-invented artist ( Sight Unseen ) to the hazy lines between fiction and reality ( Collected Stories ). And Eric's fractious, divided family, summoned in recollection in Brooklyn Boy, has been anticipated in The Loman Family Picnic and What's Wrong With This Picture? The play was developed in connection with the Nashville Repertory Theatre Ingram New Works Festival. The unfinished play

2332-538: The world, including one in London in 1999, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket , with Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff , directed by Howard Davies . Collected Stories was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . Sight Unseen was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, where it had its premiere in September 1991. The play premiered Off-Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production, at City Center II on January 7, 1992 and transferred to

2385-453: Was a co-production with the Geffen Playhouse, where it had its world premiere on June 11, 2014, directed by Daniel Sullivan and starred Blythe Danner ("Anna"), Eric Lange , David Rasche and Sarah Steele ; Scott Foley and Emily Swallow originated roles played on Broadway by Daniel Sunjata and Kate Jennings Grant . It won the 2014 L.A. Ovation Award for Best Play (Large Theatre) and

2438-703: Was an Emmy Award -nominated film for HBO . Collected Stories was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, where it had its world premiere in 1996. It went on to have three New York productions: its premiere Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage I, in 1997, with Maria Tucci and Debra Messing , directed by Lisa Peterson; in 1998–99 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with Uta Hagen and Lorca Simons, directed by William Carden; and on Broadway in 2010 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman (formerly Biltmore) Theatre, starring Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson , directed by Lynne Meadow . Lavin received

2491-697: Was directed by DeLorenzo and starred Itzin and Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, directed by Evan Cabnet in February 2008. The play opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages , directed by Lisa Peterson, running from February 8, 2009 to March 7, 2009. Michael Countryman appeared in the Long Wharf and Off-Broadway productions. It received the 2009 Outer Critics' Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Play. Oil Lamp Theater in Glenview , IL off-Chicago produced Shipwrecked: An Entertainment in summer 2021, which

2544-537: Was first disclosed, five musicals have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They are: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson 's The Gospel at Colonus (1985); Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes ' In the Heights (2009); Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron 's Fun Home (2014); Taylor Mac 's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017); and David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori 's Soft Power (2020). ¹All listed dates are Prize years. Generally,

2597-561: Was given a reading in May 2015 at the Festival. The play focuses on a "long-overdue reunion between two middle-aged brothers." Long Lost opened Off-Broadway, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club , at New York City Center — Stage I on May 14, 2019 in previews, officially on June 4. Directed by Daniel J. Sullivan , the cast features Kelly AuCoin , Annie Parisse , Lee Tergesen and Alex Wolff . The play takes place in

2650-410: Was overlooked by the committee. The reason given was that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is a dramatic award, and not a musical one. However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience. Additionally, since 1983, when the identity of finalists

2703-549: Was selected an Applause Books Best Play of 2013–14. Time Stands Still opened on Broadway on January 28, 2010, at the Manhattan Theatre Club 's Friedman Theatre for a limited engagement. It resumed performances on September 23, 2010, at the Cort Theatre , where it ran until January 30, 2011; between its two runs, it played a total of 24 previews and 193 performances. It starred Laura Linney , Brian d'Arcy James , Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone (later succeeded at

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2756-421: Was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's committee. However, the committee's selection was overruled by the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University , because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes. Had Albee been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene O'Neill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (four). In its first 106 years to 2022,

2809-619: Was the first production of the theater company to be produced outdoors. Brooklyn Boy began at the Pacific Playwrights Festival, in 2003, and was produced at South Coast Repertory in 2004, on Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre in February 2005, and in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Élysées. It was an American Theatre Critics' Association New Play Award finalist, a 2005 Outer Critics' Circle nominee for Outstanding New Broadway Play and

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