The partnership and trust between a playwright and a director are vital for the success of a play, but this is especially unique when they're tied as friends and colleagues for years. The st…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:02PMOn this American Theatre Wing's Master Class, Tony Nominated Scenic Designer Edward Pierce (Wicked, Angels in America) takes us behind the scenes into the world of Shiz/Oz, while sharing the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:02PM"Receiving the Jonathan Larson Grant means time, more time to work, to take a breath, to listen and sing, to figure out what we might offer others. It means, in short, the whole damn world."…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"The recognition and also the cash that comes with the award really helped to accelerate my career." - Anna. K Jacobs The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in indi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"Jonathan Larson made something that quite literally changed my life so when my collaborator Laura and I found out we had received a Jonathan Larson Grant back in 2022 it was really the most…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"First and foremost I just want to thank Jonathan for that show [Rent] and my parents for heeding the hunch that I might be ready to hear it when I was." - Julian Hornik The Jonathan Larson…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"This came at just the right time that I was able to stay in New York, keep writing, and feel like somebody supported me and there was somebody out there that saw what I was doing and that t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"When I was living in Mexico, I was struggling to fit anywhere. I couldn't find my place. I couldn't find a way to communicate and express who I was. And it wasn't until I discovered musical…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"I picked a word of the year, and this year it was faith... faith that I am on the right path as an artist and I need to continue to write and write no matter what because this is what I lov…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"So for the first 'yes' that I've received from New York after a decade of 'no's' - 95 of them, I counted - for the first to be in the name of Jonathan Larson, that kindred spirit who sent m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"It is surreal to be on receiving end of this honor as a book writer, composer and lyricist." - Larry Owens The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual tal…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"I never expected to have this happen and it honestly is the best thing that's ever happened to me in my theatre career." - Paris Ray Dozier The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"Receiving this grant is a vote of confidence for us lucky ones to continue to make our particular medicine. Thank you so much for this honor and congratulations to everybody who's here." - …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"Multilingualism is the only path to develop new audiences in our field, so we are hopeful, that 'Azul' can be one more step toward linguistic inclusion in the American theatre." - Jacinta C…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"Create fearlessly, sing what hasn't been sung before, and elevate the stories that need to be heard." - Laura Grill Jaye The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"And so I'm so grateful to have support, big and small, to continue doing this." - Zenbia Now The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent. The grant…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32PM"She's always there to serve her community, she's always there to make it better," is how Artistic Director/Founder/Writer/Performer Desi P. Shelton describes Camden Rep. But it seems we ca…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:12PMFrom the very first moment of SANCOCHO, a hush falls over the audience as if we are afraid we'll be discovered spying on Caridad in her kitchen as she waits for her sister. Caridad prepares …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMA playwright is lucky to have actors embody their words, freeing them from the page to the stage and, in the process, adding new meaning to the work. When it’s not just one actor but a gro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMThe way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMPlato describes music as “the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” To sit in space and feel, not only hear chords, but feel notes and an arrangement of m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMThese two performance artists’ radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMThe minimalism of a perfectly placed slash of light piercing the dark can be as memorable and dramatic as the best writing and acting. From the nightmarishly epic boxing ring of the mind in …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMHer Celine Dion impersonation—the physicality, the mannerisms, and the octave-spanning voice—was simply unparalleled. Her ability to be improvisational and impromptu was extraordinary. H…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMEven after a career of many excellent turns in many excellent roles, this chameleonic actor took it up a notch with a pugnacious performance as a sex offender in DOWNSTATE. Part den mother a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMFrom the playfully bold pink box of DARK DISABLED STORIES to the minimalist Californian limbo of INFINITE LIFE, and the exacting naturalism of a home in India in PUBLIC OBSCENITIES, this col…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMFrom a dark basement in Germany to a boxing ring set among the ruins of one family’s journey to adopt a child, to a home in the suburbs of Arizona that explodes into an alien spaceship, on…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMPerhaps the role was not written for him, but it sure feels like it was. The part of Kenneth in Eboni Booth’s PRIMARY TRUST demands subtlety, patience, charm, as well as an ability to brea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03AMIn this two-hander, there was no hiding or make-believe. Portraying two women trapped in the basement of their own paranoia and ever-growing spiritual and existential psychosis, these two ac…
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