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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. [12]
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2020 calendar year on June 11, 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The awards highlighted coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic , racial unrest , and other major stories in the U.S. that year . [ 1 ]
Hall received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Hot Wing King. [8] The citation described the play as "a funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition." [9]
The play was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [ 9 ] [ 4 ] In 2023 Boston.com named it one of seven theatre performances to see that summer. [ 10 ]
It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As of 2021, Hamilton currently holds the record for most Tony nominations for one production, with 16. It also now holds the record for most Olivier Award nominations with 13 and it won 7 Olivier Awards including Best New Musical tying the most wins with Matilda
A Strange Loop is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1] First produced off-Broadway in 2019, then staged in Washington, D.C. in 2021, [2] A Strange Loop premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022.
Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for August: Osage County (2007), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name.