"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Intimate Apparel "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles Isherwood, Variety
Fabulation "Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times
With her two latest...
"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity ...
A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports. Linda Winer, Newsday
An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won t expect. David Cote, Time Out New York
A rain forest bar and brothel in the...
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important...
"From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today, and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks -- too rarely given ample time on American stages -- makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary drama. . . . If I had pompoms, I'd be waving them now."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
No stranger to dramas...
Winner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
"From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt...