Published in Breaking Character Magazine, December 2016 Read the original interview here. This past fall, Samuel French launched Playwrights Welcome, a national initiative for Dramatists Guild Members that asks theaters to offer unsold tickets to professional playwrights on the day of a performance. Our Breaking Character Magazine Editor, Courtney Kochuba, sat down with Bruce Lazarus […]
By David Auburn Published in The Juilliard Journal, March 2014 In honor of the 20th anniversary of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, one of its many distinguished alums, David Auburn (who wrote, among other plays, the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Proof), chatted with co-directors Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. So, I guess the first […]
by Pat Cerasaro 7 August 2011 BroadwayWord.com Today we are talking to a singular literary talent who has written for Broadway, Hollywood, television and film, but, besides her Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway debut, ‘NIGHT MOTHER, which opened on Broadway in 1982, she is perhaps best known as the Tony-winning book-writer for two particularly beloved musicals of […]
2 July 2010 In a reprise of 2008’s “Week 3,” Chautauqua’s most popular week ever, Roger Rosenblatt returns with even more friends for another week-long conversation and celebration of the literary arts. Humor, pathos, new worlds are here to explore, with some of today’s most prominent authors, interviewed by a master at getting to the […]
White’s ‘Trumpet Of The Swan’ Debuts On Stage December 7, 2008 NPR’s All Things Considered | with host Andrea Seabrook Click here to listen to the interview on NPR The E.B. White children’s book The Trumpet of the Swan has been adapted for the stage, and it received its world premiere at The Kennedy Center […]
Nicole Renee Gilman, IMI Program Christopher Durang/Marsha Norman Chapter Marsha Norman: Sometimes I am asked to talk about writing plays to groups of people who don’t know anything about writing plays, people who’ve spent their lives writing novels, or buying stocks, or building houses. But sometimes we all need to hear the basics again. So […]
American Theatre Wing, Downstage Center October 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman compares the gathering and rituals shared by theatre and houses of worship; explains why she could never have written ‘night Mother now that she’s had children; talks about her specific goals in crafting the lyrics for “Lily’s Eyes” in The Secret Garden; considers whether […]
by Marsha Norman Published in BOMB Magazine After you read thousands of plays by young writers, you can pretty much tell in 10 pages whether the playwright is going to get you. The voice is either clear or not, the dramatic sensibility is either there or it isn’t, and the writer either knows or doesn’t […]
by Susan Stamberg 9 November 2004 In the newest installment of our series “Scenes I Wish I Had Written,” NPR’s Susan Stamberg talks with award winning playwright Marsha Norman. Norman tells us about her favorite scene from another writer’s play — Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand years; the duration of their erectile dysfunction was […]
by April Gornik When I first met Marsha Norman—Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, that is—I was delighted to find her not only accessible but also to be a playful person with a fabulous sense of humor. I had not seen her play ’Night Mother, when it had its hugely successful run, but subsequently read it […]