Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Lanford Wilson’s quiet one-act play about an unlikely love between a leftist Jewish immigrant and the daughter of a Missouri garment factory dynasty won the…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:28AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Sam Shepard's dark look at the American family won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, so it gets the Chosen by Committee treatment on this episode of the much-loved podcast.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:17PMThursday, February 3, 2022
Lizards! Edward Albee won his second (of three) Pulitzer Prizes in 1975 for Seascape, which traverses a peculiar line between realism and absurdism.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:25PMWednesday, January 26, 2022
Basketball, bigotry, and unfulfilled promise collide in Jason Miller’s look at five denizens of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:39AMThursday, January 20, 2022
Paul Zindel’s The Effect Of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the -Moon Marigolds premiered in Houston in 1964, but didn’t come to the attention of the Pulitzer…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:06AMWednesday, January 12, 2022
Josh powers through his COVID to spearhead a discussion of Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:53PMSaturday, January 8, 2022
Based on the life of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, The Great White Hope won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:19AMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Edward Albee won his first of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama in 1967 for his three-act work A Delicate Balance. In this episode of Chosen…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:03AMSunday, September 19, 2021
Chosen by Committee · Episode 43- The Subject Was Roses (1965) Today, Frank Gilroy may be best known as the father of screenwriters Tony Gilroy…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:01PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Based on Shepherd Mead’s 1952 faux self-help book of the same name, the comedy musical How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying won the…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:53PMFriday, July 16, 2021
In a long-awaited return to the podcast game, Josh, John, and Chris discuss Tad Mosel’s All the Way Home, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:07PMSaturday, June 26, 2021
Back in dark days of January 2021, the podders at Chosen by Committee considered the political biographic musical Fiorello!
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:10AMThursday, January 14, 2021
On this episode of Chosen by Committee, Josh, John, and Chris talk poetry and bible, and wonder why this play didn't quite work.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:30AMMonday, January 4, 2021
In 1958 the Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Look Homeward, Angel, Ketti Frings's adaptation of the Thomas Wolfe novel. This week's episode of Chosen by Committee discusses the award-winning…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:22AMMonday, December 28, 2020
This week, hosts Josh, John, and Chris take a long day's journey into night with the 1957 winner by Eugene O'Neill, his fourth.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:44PMSunday, December 20, 2020
Josh, John, and Chris discuss Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's dramatization of The Diary of Anne Frank, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:07PMSunday, December 13, 2020
In 1955, playwright Tennessee Williams won his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:45PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
This week, hosts Josh, John, and Chris talk about racism, identity, and 1954's Pulitzer winner The Teahouse of August Moon
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:36PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
William Inge, his place in the American dramatic canon, and queer coding.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:29PMSunday, November 1, 2020
We talk about Arthur Miller, specifically Death of.a Salesman (1949) with a dash of All my Sons, as a treat.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:41AMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Josh, John, and Chris talk about the play about the rabbit you might've seen in high school
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:25PMSaturday, September 26, 2020
Josh, John, and Chris disagree again about Thorton Wilder. Then, they chart a path forward.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:27PMSaturday, September 12, 2020
For episode 23, podders Josh, John, and Chris discuss There Shall Be No Light, the third and final prizewinning play by Robert E. Sherwood.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:10AMFriday, September 4, 2020
William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life presents a colorful cast of drinkers. Josh, John, and Chris liked it a bunch.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:38AMFriday, August 21, 2020
In this episode of Chosen by Committee, hosts Josh, John, and Chris wonder how Robert E. Sherwood won the 1939 Pulitzer.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:51PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Oh no! John Rosenberg is moving to LA! To see him off and celebrate the 20th episode of Chosen by Committee, the podders got together and recorded LIVE in John's backyard!
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:35AMWednesday, August 5, 2020
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1937 for You Can't Take it With You.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:18PMFriday, July 31, 2020
Josh, Chris, and John discuss Idiot's Delight, the first of three (!!!) Pulitzer Prize-winning plays by Robert E. Sherwood.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:19AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
We consider expectations of female-penned literature, the role of casual racism, and Edith Wharton.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:54PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Josh, John, and Chris discuss Men in White, the history of medicine, and good tv shows set in hospitals.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:48PMThursday, July 9, 2020
Chris rambles about economics, Josh sings a bit of Hamilton, and the trio discuss the West Wing.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:26AM 
