Pulitzer Prize Spotlights

This is the fourth in a series looking at the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Previous articles are categorized under “Pulitzer Spotlight”. After opening on Broadway in November 1959, FIORELLO! became the second musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  A funny yet moving look at the life of New York mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, [...]

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This is the third in a series looking at the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was even more historic than usual. That year, the award went to a musical for the first time.  OF THEE I SING, the charming political satire by George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman, and [...]

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This is the second in a series on the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The first installment can be found here. In his will, Joseph Pulitzer established the Pulitzer Prize, in order to encourage the kind of excellence that he routinely upheld as a journalist.  He listed four awards for journalism, four in letters and drama, [...]

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A few months ago, the Broadway musical NEXT TO NORMAL made history by being only the eighth musical to ever be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  The highly prestigious award is given out each year to an original American play or musical that a jury – composed of three critics, an academic, and a [...]

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